lop.
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.
Meaning & usage
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.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English loppe (“bough”); the verb is a back-formation from the noun.
That which is lopped from anything, such as branches from a tree.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English loppe (“bough”); the verb is a back-formation from the noun.
A flea.
Hadway wi ye man, ye liftin wi lops.
Where this word comes from
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”).
(usually offensive) A disabled person, a cripple.
Any of several breeds of rabbits whose ears lie flat.
Where this word comes from
Back-formation from lopsided.
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