Lopped vs Dopped - What's the difference?
lopped | dopped |
(lop)
(usually with off) To cut off as the top or extreme part of anything, especially to prune a small limb off a shrub or tree, or sometimes to behead someone.
To hang downward; to be pendent; to lean to one side.
To allow to hang down.
That which is lopped from anything, such as branches from a tree.
(US, slang) A disabled person, a cripple.
* 1935 : Rex Stout, The League of Frightened Men , p5
Any of several breeds of rabbits whose ears lie flat.
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(dop)
(South Africa, slang). A drink.
(South Africa, slang) An imprecise measure of alcohol; a dash.
(obsolete) A dip; a low courtesy.
A little copper cup in which a diamond is held while being cut.
(South Africa, slang) To fail or to plug (an examination, standard or grade)
(South Africa, slang) To drink alcohol.
* 2004 , Patrick Stevens, Politics is the Greatest Game (page 170)
To dip.
As verbs the difference between lopped and dopped
is that lopped is past tense of lop while dopped is past tense of dop.lopped
English
Verb
(head)lop
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) .References
* * * * * * * *Etymology 2
From (etyl) loppe.Verb
(lopp)- to lop the head
Synonyms
* (to cut off)Derived terms
* lopper, loppersSee also
* defalcateNoun
(en noun)- (Shakespeare)
- (Mortimer)
References
*Etymology 3
from lopsided.Noun
(en noun)- "He's a lop ; it mentions here about his getting up to the stand with his crippled leg but it doesn't say which one."
See also
* lobAnagrams
* (l) * (l), (l) ---- ==Franco-Provençal==Noun
dopped
English
Verb
(head)dop
English
Noun
(en noun)- Let's go to the bar for a dop .
- Give me a dop of brandy.
- (Ben Jonson)
Synonyms
* (cup in which diamond is cut) doopVerb
(dopp)- I dopped my exams.
- They not only forswore dopping themselves, but also contrived to make the National Party forgo a dop.
- (Walton)