Trudge vs Tiptoe - What's the difference?
trudge | tiptoe |
To walk wearily with heavy, slow steps.
* 2014, (Paul Salopek), Blessed. Cursed. Claimed. , National Geographic (December 2014)[http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2014/12/pilgrim-roads/salopek-text]
To trudge along or over a route etc.
Standing elevated, on or as if on the tips of one's toes.
* Shakespeare
* Byron
Moving carefully, quietly, warily or stealthily, on or as if on the tips of one's toes.
* Cowper
To walk quietly with only the tips of the toes touching the ground.
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As nouns the difference between trudge and tiptoe
is that trudge is a tramp, ie a long and tiring walk while tiptoe is the tips of one's toes collectively.As verbs the difference between trudge and tiptoe
is that trudge is to walk wearily with heavy, slow steps while tiptoe is to walk quietly with only the tips of the toes touching the ground.As an adjective tiptoe is
standing elevated, on or as if on the tips of one's toes.trudge
English
Verb
(trudg)- This famous archaeological site marks the farthest limit of human migration out of Africa in the middle Stone Age—the outer edge of our knowledge of the cosmos. I trudge to the caves in a squall.
Derived terms
* trudgerReferences
*tiptoe
English
(wikipedia tiptoe)Alternative forms
* tip-toe * tippytoe, tippy-toeDerived terms
* on tiptoeAdjective
(-)- Night's candles are burnt out, and jocund day / Stands tiptoe on the misty mountain tops.
- above the tiptoe pinnacle of glory
- with tiptoe step
Verb
(d)Mr. Pratt's Patients, passage=We tiptoed into the house, up the stairs and along the hall into the room where the Professor had been spending so much of his time.}}