Scamper vs Hobble - What's the difference?
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To run quickly and lightly, especially in a playful manner or in an undignified manner.
* 1912 : (Edgar Rice Burroughs), (Tarzan of the Apes), Chapter 1
(en noun) (usually in plural )
Short straps tied between the legs of unfenced horses, allowing them to wander short distances but preventing them from running off.
An unsteady, off-balance step.
To fetter by tying the legs; to restrict (a horse) with hobbles.
To walk lame, or unevenly.
* Dryden
(figurative) To move roughly or irregularly.
* Jeffreys
To perplex; to embarrass.
Scamper is a related term of hobble.
As nouns the difference between scamper and hobble
is that scamper is a quick, light run while hobble is short straps tied between the legs of unfenced horses, allowing them to wander short distances but preventing them from running off.As verbs the difference between scamper and hobble
is that scamper is to run quickly and lightly, especially in a playful manner or in an undignified manner while hobble is to fetter by tying the legs; to restrict (a horse) with hobbles.scamper
English
Verb
(en verb)- The dog scampered after the squirrel.
- The younger and lighter members of his tribe scampered to the higher branches of the great trees to escape his wrath; risking their lives upon branches that scarce supported their weight rather than face old Kerchak in one of his fits of uncontrolled anger.
Synonyms
* scurry * See alsoAnagrams
* English intransitive verbshobble
English
Noun
Synonyms
* tether (rope)Verb
- (Charles Dickens)
- The friar was hobbling the same way too.
- The hobbling versification, the mean diction.
