Trot vs Dawdle - What's the difference?
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(archaic, disparaging) An ugly old woman, a hag.“
(chiefly, of horses) A gait of a four-legged animal between walk and canter, a diagonal gait (in which diagonally opposite pairs of legs move together).
* 2000 , Margaret H. Bonham, Introduction to: Dog Agility ,
* 2008 , Kenneth W. Hinchcliff, Andris J. Kaneps, Raymond J. Geor, Equine Exercise Physiology: The Science of Exercise in the Athletic Horse , Elsevier,
* 2009 , Gordon Wright, George H. Morris, Learning To Ride, Hunt, And Show ,
A gait of a person faster than a walk.
A toddler.
* 1855 , '', 1869, ''The Works of William Makepeace Thackeray'', Volume V: ''The Newcomes, Volume I ,
(obsolete) A young animal.
(dance) A moderately rapid dance.
(mildly disparaging)
(Australia, obsolete) A succession of heads thrown in a game of two-up.
A run of luck or fortune.
* 1994 , Noel Virtue, Sandspit Crossing ,
* 2004 , John Mosig, Ric Fallu, Australian Fish Farmer: A Practical Guide to Aquaculture , 2nd Edition,
To walk rapidly.
(of a horse) To move at a gait between a walk and a canter.
To cause to move, as a horse or other animal, in the pace called a trot; to cause to run without galloping or cantering.
To spend time idly and unfruitfully, to waste time.
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To spend (time) without haste or purpose.
To move or walk lackadaisically.
* Thackeray
Trot is a related term of dawdle.
As nouns the difference between trot and dawdle
is that trot is trotskyist while dawdle is a dawdler.As a verb dawdle is
to spend time idly and unfruitfully, to waste time.trot
English
(wikipedia trot)Noun
(en noun)Trot”, entry in 2008 , Anatolij Simonovi? Liberman, An Analytic Dictionary of English Etymology: An Introduction , page 208.
page 14,
- Dogs have a variety of gaits. Most dogs have the walk, trot , pace, and gallop.
page 154,
- The toelt is comfortable for the rider because the amplitude of the dorsoventral displacement is lower than at the trot'.The slow '''trot''' is a two-beat symmetric diagonal gait. Among the normal variations of the '''trot''' of saddle horses, the speed of the gait increases from collected to extended ' trot .
page 65,
- To assume the correct position for the posting trot', first walk, with the body inclined forward in a posting position. Then put the horse into a slow or sitting '''trot at six miles an hour. ''Do not post.
page 123,
- but Ethel romped with the little children — the rosy little trots — and took them on her knees, and told them a thousand stories.
- He?s had a good trot , but his luck will end soon.
page 34,
- It was to be a hugely special occasion, for apart from the picture shows at the Majestic, there was usually nothing at all going on in Sandspit to make anyone think they were on a good trot living there.
page 21,
- Should he or she be having a bad trot , the exchange rate will be higher than normal.
Synonyms
* (gait of an animal between walk and canter) * (ugly old woman) See * (gait of a person faster than a walk) jogDerived terms
* foxtrot * on the trot * trotter * turkey trotVerb
(trott)Derived terms
* hot to trotSynonyms
* (to walk rapidly) jog, pace ** See also ,References
Anagrams
* (l) ----dawdle
English
Verb
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- Come some evening and dawdle over a dish of tea with me.
- to dawdle away the whole morning
- If you dawdle on your daily walk, you won't get as much exercise.
- We dawdle up and down Pall Mall.