lop

See also: løp, löp, lốp, and lớp

English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /lɒp/
  • Rhymes: -ɒp

Etymology 1

From Middle English loppe (“flea, spider”), from Old English loppe (“spider, silk-worm, flea”), from Proto-Germanic *luppǭ (“flea, sandflea", originally, "jumper”), from Proto-Germanic *luppijaną (“to jump, dart”). Cognate with Danish loppe (“flea”), Swedish loppa (“flea”). Compare also Middle High German lüpfen, lupfen (“to raise”, obsolete also “to rise”).

Noun

lop (plural lops)

  1. (Geordie) A flea.
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    Hadway wi ye man, ye liftin wi lops

References

  • The New Geordie Dictionary, Frank Graham, 1987, →ISBN
  • A Dictionary of North East Dialect, Bill Griffiths, 2005, Northumbria University Press, →ISBN
  • lop in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
  • “lop” in Douglas Harper, Online Etymology Dictionary, 2001–2018.
  • Newcastle 1970s, Scott Dobson and Dick Irwin,
  • Northumberland Words, English Dialect Society, R. Oliver Heslop, 1893–4
  • A List of words and phrases in everyday use by the natives of Hetton-le-Hole in the County of Durham, F.M.T.Palgrave, English Dialect Society vol.74, 1896,
  • Todd's Geordie Words and Phrases, George Todd, Newcastle, 1977

Etymology 2

From Middle English loppe.

Verb

lop (third-person singular simple present lops, present participle lopping, simple past and past participle lopped or lopt)

  1. (transitive, 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.
  2. To hang downward; to be pendent; to lean to one side.
  3. To allow to hang down.
    to lop the head
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Derived terms
Translations

Noun

lop (plural lops)

  1. That which is lopped from anything, such as branches from a tree.
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See also

References

  • “lop” in Douglas Harper, Online Etymology Dictionary, 2001–2018.

Etymology 3

Back-formation from lopsided.

Noun

lop (plural lops)

  1. (US, dated, slang) (usually offensive) A disabled person, a cripple.
    • 1935: Rex Stout, The League of Frightened Men, p5
      "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."
  2. Any of several breeds of rabbits whose ears lie flat.

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Anagrams

Franco-Provençal

Etymology

Probably influenced by French loup, from Latin lupus. Doublet of naturally inherited luef.

Noun

lop m (plural lops)

  1. wolf

Hungarian

Etymology

Of unknown origin.[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈlop]

Verb

lop

  1. (transitive) to steal, to shoplift (from someone -tól/-től)
    Másoktól lop ötleteket. ― He/she steals ideas from others.

Conjugation

Derived terms

  • lopakodik
  • lopás
  • lopdos
  • lopkod
  • lopódzik

(With verbal prefixes):

  • belop
  • ellop
  • kilop
  • lelop
  • meglop
  • összelop
  • visszalop

Descendants

References

Occitan

Etymology

From Old Occitan lop, from Latin lupus.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈlup]

Noun

lop m (plural lops, feminine loba, feminine plural lobas)

  1. wolf

Derived terms

Veps

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *loppu.

Noun

lop

  1. end

Volapük

Noun

lop (plural lops)

  1. opera

Declension

Derived terms

  • lopöp
  • lopül
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