flit

flit (third-person singular simple present flits, present participle flitting, simple past and past participle flitted)

flits (present singular third-person)
flitting (participle present)
flitted (participle past)
flitted (past)

From Middle English flitten, flytten, from Old Norse flytja (“to move”), from Proto-Germanic *flutjaną, from Proto-Indo-European *plewd- (“to flow; run”). Cognate Icelandic flytja, Swedish flytta, Danish flytte, Norwegian flytte, Faroese flyta. Compare also Saterland Frisian flitskje (“to rush; run quickly”).

cog

A shadow flits before me, / Not thou, but like to thee; […]

There were many apes with faces similar to his own, and further over in the book he found, under "M," some little monkeys such as he saw daily flitting through the trees of his primeval forest. But nowhere was pictured any of his own people; in all the book was none that resembled Kerchak, or Tublat, or Kala.

1912 October, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “Tarzan of the Apes”, in The All-Story, New York, N.Y.: Frank A. Munsey Co., →OCLC; republished as “Chapter 6”, in Tarzan of the Apes, New York, N.Y.: A. L. Burt Company, 1914 June, →OCLC:


rove

en-verb

rove (third-person singular simple present roves, present participle roving, simple past and past participle roved)

roves (present singular third-person)
roving (participle present)
roved (participle past)
roved (past)

Probably from Middle English *roven, a Midlands variant of Northern Middle English raven (“to wander”), from Old Norse ráfa (“to rove; stray about”). Cognate with Icelandic ráfa (“to wander”), Scots rave (“to wander; stray; roam”).

Now that he was in his prime, there was no simian in all the mighty forest through which he roved that dared contest his right to rule, nor did the other and larger animals molest him.

1912 October, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “Tarzan of the Apes”, in The All-Story, New York, N.Y.: Frank A. Munsey Co., →OCLC; republished as chapter 1, in Tarzan of the Apes, New York, N.Y.: A. L. Burt Company, 1914 June, →OCLC:

And a rovin’, a rovin’, a rovin’ I'll go / For a pair of brown eyes

1985, Shane MacGowan (lyrics and music), “A Pair of Brown Eyes”, in Rum Sodomy & the Lash, performed by The Pogues:

(intransitive) To roam, or wander about at random, especially over a wide area.

Roving the field, I chanced / A goodly tree far distant to behold.

1667, John Milton, “Book VIII”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:


rove

In thy nocturnal rove one moment halt.

1745, [Edward Young], “Night the Ninth and Last. The Consolation. Containing, among Other Things, I. A Moral Survey of the Nocturnal Heavens. II. A Night-Address to the Deity. […]”, in The Complaint: Or, Night-Thoughts on Life, Death, & Immortality, London: […] [Samuel Richardson] for A[ndrew] Millar […], and R[obert] Dodsley […], published 1750, →OCLC, page 318:


trek

From Afrikaans trek, from Dutch trekken, from Middle Dutch trekken (weak verb) and trēken (“to trek, place, bring, move”, strong verb), from Old Dutch *trekkan, *trekan, from Proto-West Germanic *trekan, from Proto-Germanic *trekaną, *trakjaną (“to drag, haul, scrape, pull”), from Proto-Indo-European *dreg- (“to drag, scrape”).

der

I would drive to the shops from here; you can walk, but it's quite a trek.


sidle

en-verb

sidle (third-person singular simple present sidles, present participle sidling, simple past and past participle sidled)

sidles (present singular third-person)
sidling (participle present)
sidled (participle past)
sidled (past)

The verb is from side + -le (frequentative suffix), possibly a back-formation from sideling (“in a sidelong direction; askew, obliquely”, adverb), treating that word as the present participle of sidle.
The noun is derived from the verb.

přikrást se

[F]rom the circle of delighted auditors listening to the gentillesses of the pink cockatoo, who was sidling on his stand in the sunshine, a whole party of the Beresfords caught sight of me, and in a minute I was surrounded; [...]

1836, [Catherine Gore], The Diary of a Désennuyée. … In Two Volumes, volume I, London: Published by Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, pages 176–177:

The mare never moved; but after immense weight had been placed on both, the horse began to sidle, and before the last bag could be put on him, he sunk on his knees; it was put on the mare, and she bore it, never moving her posture until she was unloaded.

1842, A. Lawson, “131. The Achievements of the Horse.”, in The Modern Farrier; or, The Art of Preserving the Health and Curing the Diseases of Horses, Dogs, Oxen, Cows, Sheep, and Swine. […], 25th edition, London: G[eorge] Virtue, […]; Newcastle: R. Dent, →OCLC, page 257:

You could drive a band of hosses up the steepest kind of hill but nobody that I ever knowed could drive a bunch straight down (that goes with cows, too)—they'd sidle it every time.

2011, Charles M[arion] Russell, “Range Horses”, in Stephen [Vincent] Brennan, editor, The Best Cowboy Stories Ever Told, New York, N.Y.: Skyhorse Publishing, →ISBN, page 478:

(transitive, intransitive, also figuratively) To (cause something to) move sideways.

There was one little prim old lady, of very smiling and good-humoured appearance, who came sidling up to me from the end of a long passage, [...]

1842, Charles Dickens, “Worcester. The Connecticut River. Hartford. New Haven. To New York.”, in American Notes for General Circulation. […], volume I, London: Chapman and Hall, […], →OCLC, pages 176–177:

A small lad, with a large head and faded yellow hair, sidles up to you, and says something about "Ing'n work," or "Cur'osities," or "Cam'ra 'bscura," or "Guide." You give some sharp, quick answer; the small boy collapses and vanishes.

1853 July, “Niagara”, in Harper's New Monthly Magazine, volume VII, number XXVIII, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, publishers, […], →OCLC, page 290, column 2:

A sharper sidleth up to him,
 "Why bettest thou not?" saith he.
 For a moment's space the stranger's face
 Was a wondrous thing to see.

1877 March, “[Humorous Department.] The Barrel Organ.”, in Belford’s Monthly Magazine. A Magazine of Literature and Art, volume I, Toronto, Ont.: Belford Brothers, publishers, […], →OCLC, page 589:

One day he sidles up to a group, listens to the conversation for a moment, and actually puts in a remark. "I beg your pardon!" says one of the girls politely who has not heard his modest effort at conversation. For a moment Alexander remains rooted to the ground, he stammers out something unintelligible, the whole group turns and looks at him; this completes his confusion, he turns and sidles back to his seat, his face as hot as can be, and remains lost in a Latin grammer^([sic – meaning grammar]) for at least half an hour.

1914 April, Eric H. May, “The Metamorphosis of a ‘Fusser’”, in Paul Sykes, editor, Vox Lycei: Official Organ of the Ottawa Collegiate Institute, volume XXIX, number 1, Ottawa, Ont.: Ottawa Collegiate Institute, →OCLC, page 16:

As the moon sidles up
 Must she sidle up,
 As trips the scared moon
 Away must she trip, [...]

1934, William Butler Yeats, “[Supernatural Songs] He and She”, in The King of the Great Clock Tower, Commentaries and Poems, Dublin: The Cuala Press, →OCLC; republished New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, May 1935, →OCLC, page 43:

At an early point in these exchanges I had started to sidle to the door, and I now sidled through it, rather like a diffident crab on some sandy beach trying to avoid the attentions of a child with a spade.

1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, chapter VIII, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, →OCLC:

Marta's gander was a magnificent snow-white bird: the object of terror to foxes, children and dogs. She had reared him as a gosling; and whenever he approached, he would let fly a low contented burble and sidle his neck around her thighs.

1988, Bruce Chatwin, Utz, London: Jonathan Cape, →ISBN; republished London: Vintage Books, 2005, →ISBN, page 50:

Ava tried to sidle away, but she was semi-trapped between the corner of the stage and a French Club sign-up table.

2014, Belle Payton, Too Cool for School (It Takes Two), New York, N.Y.: Simon Spotlight, Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing Division, →ISBN, page 71:

A man I'd never spoken to before who worked in the IT department sidled behind me as I danced and put his hands on my waist where the cut-outs were.

2021, Megan Nolan, Acts of Desperation, Random House, →ISBN:

(transitive, intransitive, also figuratively) In the intransitive sense often followed by up: to (cause something to) advance in a coy, furtive, or unobtrusive manner.


sidle

[I]n this mythic America, we fly along in the fast lane, placing bets against flashing lights in the rearview mirror, against the dreaded sidle into the gravel and the voice at the window demanding our license.

2015, Meredith Castile, “America”, in Drivers License (Object Lessons), New York, N.Y., London: Bloomsbury Academic, Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN, page 1:

Listener up there! Here you … what have you to confide in me?
 Look in my face while I snuff the sidle of evening,
 Talk honestly, for no one else hears you, and I stay only a minute longer.

1855 July 4, Walt Whitman, “[Song of Myself]”, in Leaves of Grass, Brooklyn, New York, N.Y.: [James and Andrew Rome], →OCLC, page 55:


sprint

en-verb

sprint (third-person singular simple present sprints, present participle sprinting, simple past sprinted or (nonstandard, humorous) sprant, past participle sprinted or (nonstandard, humorous) sprunt)

sprints (present singular third-person)
sprinting (participle present)
sprinted (past)
sprant (humorous nonstandard past)
sprinted (participle past)
sprunt (humorous nonstandard participle past)

Alteration of earlier sprent (“to leap; bound; dart”), from Northern Middle English sprenten, from Old Norse *sprenta (for later spretta), from Proto-Germanic *sprantijaną, causative of Proto-Germanic *sprintaną (“to jump up; bounce”), from Proto-Indo-European *sprend-, *sprendʰ- (“to flinch; jump”), from Proto-Indo-European *sper- (“to twitch; fidget; flinch; jump; be quick”). Cognate with Middle High German sprenzen (“to sprinkle; splash”), Swedish spritta (“to startle”), Icelandic spretta (“to spring forth; emerge; arise; develop”).

cog

"So I broke away early this mornin', gave my guard a kick in the tummy that laid him out, and sprinted for the camp.

1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:

(transitive, intransitive) To run, cycle, etc. at top speed for a short period.

спринтирам

To run etc at top speed for a short period


wobble

en-verb

wobble (third-person singular simple present wobbles, present participle wobbling, simple past and past participle wobbled)

wobbles (present singular third-person)
wobbling (participle present)
wobbled (participle past)
wobbled (past)

From earlier wabble (“wobble”), probably from Low German wabbeln (“to wobble”). Compare Dutch wiebelen and wobbelen (“to wobble”), German wabbeln (“to wobble”), Old Norse vafla (“to hover about, totter”).

cog

the Earth wobbles slowly on its axis

the jelly wobbled on the plate

The apparition wobbled in front of Arthur's eyes, though the truth of the matter is probably that Arthur's eyes were wobbling in front of the apparition. His mouth wobbled as well.

1982 August, Douglas Adams, Life, the Universe and Everything (The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy; 3), London: Pan Books, →ISBN, page 27:

Investors face a quandary. Cash offers a return of virtually zero in many developed countries; government-bond yields may have risen in recent weeks but they are still unattractive. Equities have suffered two big bear markets since 2000 and are wobbling again. It is hardly surprising that pension funds, insurers and endowments are searching for new sources of return.

2013 July 6, “The rise of smart beta”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8843, page 68:

(intransitive) To move with an uneven or rocking motion, or unsteadily to and fro.

I'm wobbling between the Liberals and the Greens.

(intransitive) To vacillate in one's opinions.

The boy wobbled the girl's bike.

He said: “This front wheel wobbles.”
I said: “It doesn’t if you don’t wobble it.” It didn’t wobble, as a matter of fact—nothing worth calling a wobble.

1900, Jerome K. Jerome, Three Men on the Bummel:


zip

en-verb

zip (third-person singular simple present zips, present participle zipping, simple past and past participle zipped)

zips (present singular third-person)
zipping (participle present)
zipped (participle past)
zipped (past)

The bullet zipped through the air.

(intransitive, followed by a preposition) To move rapidly (in a specified direction or to a specified place) with a high-pitched sound.

ujeltaa

to move rapidly with a high-pitched sound

Zip down to the shops for some milk.

Despite writing that can be confusing — we are not told, for example, how Oishi’s group of 56 ronin ended up just 47, or maybe a supertitle zipped by too quickly — the story moves at a steady clip. And Dachs’s decision to have women play some of the male roles, most prominently Kira, is very effective.

2022 October 24, Elisabeth Vincentelli, “‘Chushingura — 47 Ronin’ Review: A Sprawling Tale of Loyalty”, in The New York Times:

(intransitive, colloquial, followed by a preposition) To move in haste (in a specified direction or to a specified place).

Tottenham also initially struggled to create genuine goal-scoring opportunities, with Bale, Luka Modric and Rafael van der Vaart zipping passes around to little effect.

2011 December 27, Mike Henson, “Norwich 0 - 2 Tottenham”, in BBC Sport:

(transitive) To make (something) move quickly


saunter

saunter (third-person singular simple present saunters, present participle sauntering, simple past and past participle sauntered)

saunters (present singular third-person)
sauntering (participle present)
sauntered (participle past)
sauntered (past)

Etymology unclear. Attested in the sense “to stroll” from the 1660s; noun sense “a stroll” attested 1828. Likely from earlier term meaning “to muse”, late 15th century, from late Middle English santren, of unknown origin. Competing theories exist:
* From Anglo-Norman sauntrer (mid 14th century), from Middle French s'aventurer (“to take risks”); however this is considered unlikely by the OED. Compare Middle English aunter (“adventure”).
* Of Germanic origin, with proposed cognates including German schlendern, Dutch slenteren, Danish slentre, Swedish släntra, and Icelandic slentur, all meaning “to stroll”.
* From Old French sentier (“path”). In this case, santren would reflect earlier *sa(u)nteren, *senteren /sa(u̯)nˈteːrən/, /sɛnˈteːrən/, with Late Middle English stress shift and concomitant vowel reduction.
Various fanciful folk etymologies have also been given.

unk

unclear

nc

One could lie under elm trees in a lawn, or saunter in meadows by the side of a stream.

1858-1880, David Masson, The Life Of John Milton: 1649-1654

Meanwhile the young ladies sauntered along—before or behind, as the case might be—in the company of the young business-man and that of another youth who had come out independently on the trolley.

1919, Henry B[lake] Fuller, “Cope at His House Party”, in Bertram Cope’s Year: A Novel, Chicago, Ill.: Ralph Fletcher Seymour, The Alderbrink Press, →OCLC, page 94:

And, after all, they were once very close, doesn’t Lewis still have the keys to his apartment, you know the way you let someone keep the keys after you’ve broken up, only a little because you hope the person might just saunter in, drunk or high, late some evening, […]

1986 November 24, Susan Sontag, “The Way We Live Now”, in The New Yorker:

(intransitive) To stroll, or walk at a leisurely pace.


saunter

unk

unclear

Caroline […] begged that the drive might be given up for a saunter about the gardens[…]

1814, Elizabeth Hervey, Amabel, volume 1, page 53:


jog

Late Middle English, of uncertain origin. Originally with the meaning of "to shake up and down".
Perhaps an early alteration of English shog (“to jolt, shake; depart, go”), from Middle English shoggen, schoggen (“to shake up and down, jog”), from Middle Dutch schocken (“to jolt, bounce”) or Middle Low German schoggen, schocken (“to shog”), ultimately from Proto-West Germanic *skokkan (“to move, shake, tremble”). More at shock.
Alternatively from Middle English joggen, a variant of jaggen (“to pierce, prod, stir up, arouse”) (see jag).

der

An energetic trot, slower than a run, often used as a form of exercise.


jog

en-verb

jog (third-person singular simple present jogs, present participle jogging, simple past and past participle jogged)

jogs (present singular third-person)
jogging (participle present)
jogged (participle past)
jogged (past)

Jog on, jog on, the foot-path way.

c. 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Winters Tale”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iii]:

1673, John Milton, “Another on the same” preceded by “On the University Carrier, who sickn’d in the time of his vacancy, being forbid to go to London, by reason of the Plague” referring to Thomas Hobson, in Poems, &c. upon Several Occasions, London: Tho. Dring, p. 33,
Here lieth one who did most truly prove,
That he could never die while he could move,
So hung his destiny, never to rot,
While he might still jogg on and keep his trot,

When we had towed about four Days more, our Gunner, who was our Pilot, begun to observe that we did not keep our right Course so exactly as we ought, the River winding away a little towards the North, and gave us Notice accordingly. However, we were not willing to lose the Advantage of Water-Carriage, at least not till we were forced to it; so we jogg’d on, and the River served us about Threescore Miles further […]

1720, Daniel Defoe, Captain Singleton, page 95:

That fiery doctor who had hailed me friend,
Did it because my by-paths, once proved wrong
And beaconed properly, would commend again
The good old ways our sires jogged safely o’er,
Though not their squeamish sons; […]

1835, Robert Browning, Paracelsus^(https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Paracelsus_(Browning)/IV), Part 4:

(intransitive) To walk or ride forward with a jolting pace; to move at a heavy pace, trudge; to move on or along.

(I saw her jogging in the forest yesterday.)

(exercise, intransitive) To move at a pace between walking and running, to run at a leisurely pace.

to jog a horse

(transitive) To cause to move at an energetic trot.


skip

skip (third-person singular simple present skips, present participle skipping, simple past and past participle skipped)

skips (present singular third-person)
skipping (participle present)
skipped (participle past)
skipped (past)

From Middle English skippen, skyppen, of North Germanic origin, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *skupjaną, perhaps related to *skeubaną (“to drive, push”), iterative *skuppōną (“to push/move repeatedly, skip”), from Proto-Indo-European *skewbʰ- (“to push, throw, shake”).
Related to Icelandic skopa (“to take a run”), Old Swedish skuppa (“to skip”), modern dialectal Swedish skopa, skimpa (“to skip, leap”), and English shove. See also dialectal English skimp (“to mock”) (Etymology 1), considered by some to be related.

der

The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to-day, / Had he thy reason, would he skip and play?

1733, [Alexander Pope], An Essay on Man. […], (please specify |epistle=I to IV), London: Printed for J[ohn] Wilford, […], →OCLC:

So she drew her mother away skipping, dancing, and frisking fantastically.

1850, Nathaniel Hawthorne, chapter 10, in The Scarlet Letter, a Romance, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, →OCLC:

The hosts maintained their discipline and shape, even threatening to grab a second goal on the break - left-back Dan Harding made a scintillating run, skipping past a few challenges before prodding a right-footed shot that did not match his build-up.

2011 January 29, Ian Hughes, “Southampton 1 - 2 Man Utd”, in BBC:

to skip the rope

The girls were skipping in the playground.


skip

A leaping or jumping movement; the action of one who skips.

The act of passing over an interval from one thing to another; an omission of a part.

(video games) A trick allowing the player to proceed to a later section of the game without playing through a section that was intended to be mandatory.


hobble

en-verb

hobble (third-person singular simple present hobbles, present participle hobbling, simple past and past participle hobbled)

hobbles (present singular third-person)
hobbling (participle present)
hobbled (participle past)
hobbled (past)

From Middle English hobblen, hobelen, akin to Middle Dutch hoblen, hobbelen (Modern Dutch hobbelen).

The friar was hobbling the same way too.

1681, John Dryden, The Spanish Fryar: Or, the Double Discovery. […], London: […] Richard Tonson and Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC, (please specify the page number):

Pepa runs all over Madrid in high heels and tube skirts that make her hobble and give the impression of restraining a naturally energetic woman.

1988 December 25, Michael Bronski, “Passion Statement”, in Gay Community News, volume 16, number 24, page 11:


fut

hu-conj

Forms in parentheses are somewhat archaic or literary.

This verb has no prefix that could split, despite its first few letters.

futok (first-person indicative object-indefinite present singular)
futsz (indicative informal object-indefinite present second-person singular)
fut (formal indicative object-indefinite present second-person-semantically singular third-person)
fut (indicative object-indefinite present singular third-person)
futunk (first-person indicative object-indefinite plural present)
futtok (indicative informal object-indefinite plural present second-person)
futnak (formal indicative object-indefinite plural present second-person-semantically third-person)
futnak (indicative object-indefinite plural present third-person)
futom (first-person indicative object-definite present singular)
futod (indicative informal object-definite present second-person singular)
futja (formal indicative object-definite present second-person-semantically singular third-person)
futja (indicative object-definite present singular third-person)
futjuk (first-person indicative object-definite plural present)
futjátok (indicative informal object-definite plural present second-person)
futják (formal indicative object-definite plural present second-person-semantically third-person)
futják (indicative object-definite plural present third-person)
futlak (first-person indicative object-second-person present singular)
futottam (first-person indicative object-indefinite past singular)
futottál (indicative informal object-indefinite past second-person singular)
futott (formal indicative object-indefinite past second-person-semantically singular third-person)
futott (indicative object-indefinite past singular third-person)
futottunk (first-person indicative object-indefinite past plural)
futottatok (indicative informal object-indefinite past plural second-person)
futottak (formal indicative object-indefinite past plural second-person-semantically third-person)
futottak (indicative object-indefinite past plural third-person)
futottam (first-person indicative object-definite past singular)
futottad (indicative informal object-definite past second-person singular)
futotta (formal indicative object-definite past second-person-semantically singular third-person)
futotta (indicative object-definite past singular third-person)
futottuk (first-person indicative object-definite past plural)
futottátok (indicative informal object-definite past plural second-person)
futották (formal indicative object-definite past plural second-person-semantically third-person)
futották (indicative object-definite past plural third-person)
futottalak (first-person indicative object-second-person past singular)
or a time adverb (first-person future indicative third-person)
or a time adverb (formal future indicative second-person-semantically third-person)
or a time adverb (future indicative informal second-person)
e.g. futni fog. (first-person future indicative third-person)
e.g. futni fog. (formal future indicative second-person-semantically third-person)
e.g. futni fog. (future indicative informal second-person)
futék (first-person object-indefinite singular)
futál (informal object-indefinite second-person singular)
futa (formal object-indefinite second-person-semantically singular third-person)
futa (object-indefinite singular third-person)
futánk (first-person object-indefinite plural)
futátok (informal object-indefinite plural second-person)
futának (formal object-indefinite plural second-person-semantically third-person)
futának (object-indefinite plural third-person)
futám (first-person object-definite singular)
futád (informal object-definite second-person singular)
futá (formal object-definite second-person-semantically singular third-person)
futá (object-definite singular third-person)
futánk (first-person object-definite plural)
futátok (informal object-definite plural second-person)
futák (formal object-definite plural second-person-semantically third-person)
futák (object-definite plural third-person)
futálak (first-person object-second-person singular)
e.g. fut vala (first-person third-person)
e.g. fut vala (formal second-person-semantically third-person)
e.g. fut vala (informal second-person)
futott vala (first-person third-person)
futott vala (formal second-person-semantically third-person)
futott vala (informal second-person)
volt. (first-person third-person)
volt. (formal second-person-semantically third-person)
volt. (informal second-person)
futandok (first-person object-indefinite singular)
futandasz (informal object-indefinite second-person singular)
futand (formal object-indefinite second-person-semantically singular third-person)
futand (object-indefinite singular third-person)
futandunk (first-person object-indefinite plural)
futandotok (informal object-indefinite plural second-person)
futandanak (formal object-indefinite plural second-person-semantically third-person)
futandanak (object-indefinite plural third-person)
futandom (first-person object-definite singular)
futandod (informal object-definite second-person singular)
futandja (formal object-definite second-person-semantically singular third-person)
futandja (object-definite singular third-person)
futandjuk (first-person object-definite plural)
futandjátok (informal object-definite plural second-person)
futandják (formal object-definite plural second-person-semantically third-person)
futandják (object-definite plural third-person)
futandalak (first-person object-second-person singular)
futnék (conditional first-person object-indefinite present singular)
futnál (conditional informal object-indefinite present second-person singular)
futna (conditional formal object-indefinite present second-person-semantically singular third-person)
futna (conditional object-indefinite present singular third-person)
futnánk (conditional first-person object-indefinite plural present)
futnátok (conditional informal object-indefinite plural present second-person)
futnának (conditional formal object-indefinite plural present second-person-semantically third-person)
futnának (conditional object-indefinite plural present third-person)
futnám (conditional first-person object-definite present singular)
futnád (conditional informal object-definite present second-person singular)
futná (conditional formal object-definite present second-person-semantically singular third-person)
futná (conditional object-definite present singular third-person)
futnánk (conditional first-person object-definite plural present)
or futnók (conditional first-person object-definite plural present)
futnátok (conditional informal object-definite plural present second-person)
futnák (conditional formal object-definite plural present second-person-semantically third-person)
futnák (conditional object-definite plural present third-person)
futnálak (conditional first-person object-second-person present singular)
Indicative past forms followed by volna (conditional first-person past third-person)
Indicative past forms followed by volna (conditional formal past second-person-semantically third-person)
Indicative past forms followed by volna (conditional informal past second-person)
e.g. futott volna (conditional first-person past third-person)
e.g. futott volna (conditional formal past second-person-semantically third-person)
e.g. futott volna (conditional informal past second-person)
fussak (first-person object-indefinite present singular subjunctive)
fuss or (informal object-indefinite present second-person singular subjunctive)
fussál (informal object-indefinite present second-person singular subjunctive)
fusson (formal object-indefinite present second-person-semantically singular subjunctive third-person)
fusson (object-indefinite present singular subjunctive third-person)
fussunk (first-person object-indefinite plural present subjunctive)
fussatok (informal object-indefinite plural present second-person subjunctive)
fussanak (formal object-indefinite plural present second-person-semantically subjunctive third-person)
fussanak (object-indefinite plural present subjunctive third-person)
fussam (first-person object-definite present singular subjunctive)
fusd or (informal object-definite present second-person singular subjunctive)
fussad (informal object-definite present second-person singular subjunctive)
fussa (formal object-definite present second-person-semantically singular subjunctive third-person)
fussa (object-definite present singular subjunctive third-person)
fussuk (first-person object-definite plural present subjunctive)
fussátok (informal object-definite plural present second-person subjunctive)
fussák (formal object-definite plural present second-person-semantically subjunctive third-person)
fussák (object-definite plural present subjunctive third-person)
fussalak (first-person object-second-person present singular subjunctive)
e.g. futott légyen (first-person third-person)
e.g. futott légyen (formal second-person-semantically third-person)
e.g. futott légyen (informal second-person)
futni (infinitive)
futnom (first-person infinitive singular)
futnod (infinitive informal second-person singular)
futnia (formal infinitive second-person-semantically singular third-person)
futnia (infinitive singular third-person)
futnunk (first-person infinitive plural)
futnotok (infinitive informal plural second-person)
futniuk (formal infinitive plural second-person-semantically third-person)
futniuk (infinitive plural third-person)
futás (noun-from-verb)
futó
futott
futandó (future participle)
futva
futván
futtat (causative)
futhatok (first-person indicative object-indefinite present singular)
futhatsz (indicative informal object-indefinite present second-person singular)
futhat (formal indicative object-indefinite present second-person-semantically singular third-person)
futhat (indicative object-indefinite present singular third-person)
futhatunk (first-person indicative object-indefinite plural present)
futhattok (indicative informal object-indefinite plural present second-person)
futhatnak (formal indicative object-indefinite plural present second-person-semantically third-person)
futhatnak (indicative object-indefinite plural present third-person)
futhatom (first-person indicative object-definite present singular)
futhatod (indicative informal object-definite present second-person singular)
futhatja (formal indicative object-definite present second-person-semantically singular third-person)
futhatja (indicative object-definite present singular third-person)
futhatjuk (first-person indicative object-definite plural present)
futhatjátok (indicative informal object-definite plural present second-person)
futhatják (formal indicative object-definite plural present second-person-semantically third-person)
futhatják (indicative object-definite plural present third-person)
futhatlak (first-person indicative object-second-person present singular)
futhattam (first-person indicative object-indefinite past singular)
futhattál (indicative informal object-indefinite past second-person singular)
futhatott (formal indicative object-indefinite past second-person-semantically singular third-person)
futhatott (indicative object-indefinite past singular third-person)
futhattunk (first-person indicative object-indefinite past plural)
futhattatok (indicative informal object-indefinite past plural second-person)
futhattak (formal indicative object-indefinite past plural second-person-semantically third-person)
futhattak (indicative object-indefinite past plural third-person)
futhattam (first-person indicative object-definite past singular)
futhattad (indicative informal object-definite past second-person singular)
futhatta (formal indicative object-definite past second-person-semantically singular third-person)
futhatta (indicative object-definite past singular third-person)
futhattuk (first-person indicative object-definite past plural)
futhattátok (indicative informal object-definite past plural second-person)
futhatták (formal indicative object-definite past plural second-person-semantically third-person)
futhatták (indicative object-definite past plural third-person)
futhattalak (first-person indicative object-second-person past singular)
futhaték (first-person object-indefinite singular)
futhatál (informal object-indefinite second-person singular)
futhata (formal object-indefinite second-person-semantically singular third-person)
futhata (object-indefinite singular third-person)
futhatánk (first-person object-indefinite plural)
futhatátok (informal object-indefinite plural second-person)
futhatának (formal object-indefinite plural second-person-semantically third-person)
futhatának (object-indefinite plural third-person)
futhatám (first-person object-definite singular)
futhatád (informal object-definite second-person singular)
futhatá (formal object-definite second-person-semantically singular third-person)
futhatá (object-definite singular third-person)
futhatánk (first-person object-definite plural)
futhatátok (informal object-definite plural second-person)
futhaták (formal object-definite plural second-person-semantically third-person)
futhaták (object-definite plural third-person)
futhatálak (first-person object-second-person singular)
e.g. futhat vala (first-person third-person)
e.g. futhat vala (formal second-person-semantically third-person)
e.g. futhat vala (informal second-person)
futhatott vala (first-person third-person)
futhatott vala (formal second-person-semantically third-person)
futhatott vala (informal second-person)
volt. (first-person third-person)
volt. (formal second-person-semantically third-person)
volt. (informal second-person)
futhatandok (first-person object-indefinite singular)
or futandhatok (first-person object-indefinite singular)
futhatandasz (informal object-indefinite second-person singular)
or futandhatsz (informal object-indefinite second-person singular)
futhatand (formal object-indefinite second-person-semantically singular third-person)
futhatand (object-indefinite singular third-person)
or futandhat (formal object-indefinite second-person-semantically singular third-person)
or futandhat (object-indefinite singular third-person)
futhatandunk (first-person object-indefinite plural)
or futandhatunk (first-person object-indefinite plural)
futhatandotok (informal object-indefinite plural second-person)
or futandhattok (informal object-indefinite plural second-person)
futhatandanak (formal object-indefinite plural second-person-semantically third-person)
futhatandanak (object-indefinite plural third-person)
or futandhatnak (formal object-indefinite plural second-person-semantically third-person)
or futandhatnak (object-indefinite plural third-person)
futhatandom (first-person object-definite singular)
or futandhatom (first-person object-definite singular)
futhatandod (informal object-definite second-person singular)
or futandhatod (informal object-definite second-person singular)
futhatandja (formal object-definite second-person-semantically singular third-person)
futhatandja (object-definite singular third-person)
or futandhatja (formal object-definite second-person-semantically singular third-person)
or futandhatja (object-definite singular third-person)
futhatandjuk (first-person object-definite plural)
or futandhatjuk (first-person object-definite plural)
futhatandjátok (informal object-definite plural second-person)
or futandhatjátok (informal object-definite plural second-person)
futhatandják (formal object-definite plural second-person-semantically third-person)
futhatandják (object-definite plural third-person)
or futandhatják (formal object-definite plural second-person-semantically third-person)
or futandhatják (object-definite plural third-person)
futhatandalak (first-person object-second-person singular)
or futandhatlak (first-person object-second-person singular)
futhatnék (conditional first-person object-indefinite present singular)
futhatnál (conditional informal object-indefinite present second-person singular)
futhatna (conditional formal object-indefinite present second-person-semantically singular third-person)
futhatna (conditional object-indefinite present singular third-person)
futhatnánk (conditional first-person object-indefinite plural present)
futhatnátok (conditional informal object-indefinite plural present second-person)
futhatnának (conditional formal object-indefinite plural present second-person-semantically third-person)
futhatnának (conditional object-indefinite plural present third-person)
futhatnám (conditional first-person object-definite present singular)
futhatnád (conditional informal object-definite present second-person singular)
futhatná (conditional formal object-definite present second-person-semantically singular third-person)
futhatná (conditional object-definite present singular third-person)
futhatnánk (conditional first-person object-definite plural present)
or futhatnók (conditional first-person object-definite plural present)
futhatnátok (conditional informal object-definite plural present second-person)
futhatnák (conditional formal object-definite plural present second-person-semantically third-person)
futhatnák (conditional object-definite plural present third-person)
futhatnálak (conditional first-person object-second-person present singular)
Indicative past forms followed by volna (conditional first-person past third-person)
Indicative past forms followed by volna (conditional formal past second-person-semantically third-person)
Indicative past forms followed by volna (conditional informal past second-person)
e.g. futhatott volna (conditional first-person past third-person)
e.g. futhatott volna (conditional formal past second-person-semantically third-person)
e.g. futhatott volna (conditional informal past second-person)
futhassak (first-person object-indefinite present singular subjunctive)
futhass or (informal object-indefinite present second-person singular subjunctive)
futhassál (informal object-indefinite present second-person singular subjunctive)
futhasson (formal object-indefinite present second-person-semantically singular subjunctive third-person)
futhasson (object-indefinite present singular subjunctive third-person)
futhassunk (first-person object-indefinite plural present subjunctive)
futhassatok (informal object-indefinite plural present second-person subjunctive)
futhassanak (formal object-indefinite plural present second-person-semantically subjunctive third-person)
futhassanak (object-indefinite plural present subjunctive third-person)
futhassam (first-person object-definite present singular subjunctive)
futhasd or (informal object-definite present second-person singular subjunctive)
futhassad (informal object-definite present second-person singular subjunctive)
futhassa (formal object-definite present second-person-semantically singular subjunctive third-person)
futhassa (object-definite present singular subjunctive third-person)
futhassuk (first-person object-definite plural present subjunctive)
futhassátok (informal object-definite plural present second-person subjunctive)
futhassák (formal object-definite plural present second-person-semantically subjunctive third-person)
futhassák (object-definite plural present subjunctive third-person)
futhassalak (first-person object-second-person present singular subjunctive)
e.g. futhatott légyen (first-person third-person)
e.g. futhatott légyen (formal second-person-semantically third-person)
e.g. futhatott légyen (informal second-person)
futhatni
futhatnom (first-person singular)
futhatnod (informal second-person singular)
futhatnia (formal second-person-semantically singular third-person)
futhatnia (singular third-person)
futhatnunk (first-person plural)
futhatnotok (informal plural second-person)
futhatniuk (formal plural second-person-semantically third-person)
futhatniuk (plural third-person)
futható (first-person singular)
futhatatlan (formal second-person-semantically singular third-person)
futhatatlan (singular third-person)
futhatva / futhatván (formal plural second-person-semantically third-person)
futhatva / futhatván (informal plural second-person)
futhatva / futhatván (plural third-person)

From Proto-Uralic *pukta- (“to caper, jump, run”).

inh

(intransitive) to run (to move forward quickly on the feet)


waddle

From Middle English wadelen, frequentative form of waden, equivalent to wade + -le. Compare Saterland Frisian wuttelje (“to waddle”), Old High German wadalōn (“to roam; wander”), Middle High German wadelen, wedelen (“to wander; rove”), German wedeln (“to waggle”).
First known use in English in a version of the Song of Roland around the year 1400. (Source:OED online)

ncog

the waddle of a duck


stump

en-verb

stump (third-person singular simple present stumps, present participle stumping, simple past and past participle stumped)

stumps (present singular third-person)
stumping (participle present)
stumped (participle past)
stumped (past)
stump (infinitive)

From Middle English stumpe, stompe (“stump”), from or akin to Middle Low German stump (“stump”) or Middle Dutch stomp, from Old Saxon or Old Dutch *stump, from Proto-West Germanic *stump, from Proto-Germanic *stumpaz (“stump, blunt, part cut off”).
Cognate with Middle Dutch stomp (“stump”), Old High German stumph (“stump”) (German Stumpf), Old Norse stumpr (“stump”). More at stop.

der

(intransitive) To walk heavily or clumsily, plod, trudge.


trudge

en-verb

trudge (third-person singular simple present trudges, present participle trudging, simple past and past participle trudged)

trudges (present singular third-person)
trudging (participle present)
trudged (participle past)
trudged (past)

Mid-16th century. Original meaning was somewhat idiomatic, meaning "to walk using snowshoes." Probably of Scandinavian origin, compare Icelandic þrúga (“snowshoe”), Norwegian truga (“snowshoe”) and dialectal Swedish trudja (“snowshoe”).

2014, Paul Salopek, Blessed. Cursed. Claimed., National Geographic (December 2014)https://web.archive.org/web/20150212214621/http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2014/12/pilgrim-roads/salopek-text
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.

(intransitive) To walk wearily with heavy, slow steps.


trot

From Middle English trotten, from Old French trotter, troter (“to go, trot”), from Medieval Latin *trottō, *trotō (“to go”), from Frankish *trottōn (“to go, run”), from Proto-Germanic *trudōną, *trudaną, *tradjaną (“to go, step, tread”), from Proto-Indo-European *dreh₂- (“to run, escape”). Cognate with Old High German trottōn (“to run”), Modern German trotten (“to trot, plod”), Gothic 𐍄𐍂𐌿𐌳𐌰𐌽 (trudan, “to tread”), Old Norse troða (“to walk, tread”), Old English tredan (“to step, tread”). Doublet of tread.

der

A gait of a person or animal faster than a walk but slower than a run.

Dogs have a variety of gaits. Most dogs have the walk, trot, pace, and gallop.

2000, Margaret H. Bonham, Introduction to: Dog Agility, page 14:

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.

2008, Kenneth W. Hinchcliff, Andris J. Kaneps, Raymond J. Geor, Equine Exercise Physiology: The Science of Exercise in the Athletic Horse, Elsevier, page 154:

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.

2009, Gordon Wright, George H. Morris, Learning To Ride, Hunt, And Show, page 65:

(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).

վարգ

gait of an animal between walk and canter


trot

en-verb

trot (third-person singular simple present trots, present participle trotting, simple past and past participle trotted)

trots (present singular third-person)
trotting (participle present)
trotted (participle past)
trotted (past)

(intransitive, of a horse) To move at a gait between a walk and a canter.

вървя в тръс

(of a horse) move at a gait between a walk and a canter


trot

Inherited from Old French trot, troter, from Medieval Latin trottare, of Germanic origin.


roam

roam (third-person singular simple present roams, present participle roaming, simple past and past participle roamed)

roams (present singular third-person)
roaming (participle present)
roamed (participle past)
roamed (past)

From Middle English romen, from Old English rāmian, from Proto-Germanic *raimōną (“to wander”), from *raim- (“to move, raise”), from *h₃reyH- (“to move, lift, flow”). Akin to Old English ārǣman (“to arise, stand up, lift up”), Old High German rāmēn (“to aim”) ( > archaic German rahmen (“to strive”)), Middle Dutch rammen (“to night-wander, to copulate”), rammelen (“to wander about, ramble”). More at ramble.

cog

Henceforth, wherever thou may’st roam,
My blessing, like a line of light,
Is on the waters day and night,
And like a beacon guards thee home.

1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, Canto XVII, page 28:

Oh, never will I roam / Now I know my place is home / Where the ocean meets the sky / I'll be sailin'

1986, Marc Jordan, John Capek, “Rhythm of My Heart”, in Vagabond Heart, performed by Rod Stewart, published 1991:

Wilshere had started as a left-footed right-winger, coming in off the flank, but he and Özil both had the licence to roam. Tomas Rosicky was not tied down to one spot either and, with Ramsey breaking forward as well as Olivier Giroud's considerable presence, Marseille were overwhelmed from the moment Bacary Sagna's first touch of the night sent Wilshere running clear.

2013 November 26, Daniel Taylor, “Jack Wilshere scores twice to ease Arsenal to victory over Marseille”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 2021-12-22:

(intransitive) To wander or travel freely and with no specific destination.

Gangs of thugs roamed the streets.

And now wild beasts came forth the woods to roam.

1671, John Milton, “The First Book”, in Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London: […] J[ohn] M[acock] for John Starkey […], →OCLC:

According to this saga of intellectual-property misanthropy, these creatures [patent trolls] roam the business world, buying up patents and then using them to demand extravagant payouts from companies they accuse of infringing them.

2013 June 8, “Obama goes troll-hunting”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8839, page 55:


roam

Glass in hand, he set off on a roam of the first floor.

2017, Rick Maloy, Evenings and Mournings:

The act of roaming; a wander; a travel without aim or destination


perambulate

en-verb

perambulate (third-person singular simple present perambulates, present participle perambulating, simple past and past participle perambulated)

perambulates (present singular third-person)
perambulating (participle present)
perambulated (participle past)
perambulated (past)

Borrowed from Latin perambulō, perambulātus.

Take, for instance, one of the most wretched classes of the community, the poor fellows who perambulate the streets as Sandwich Men. These are farmed out by certain firms.

1890, William Booth, “The regimentation of the unemployed”, in In Darkest England and the Way Out:

They dragged themselves from the swamp singly, and in twos and threes, more dead than alive, mere perambulating skeletons, until at last there were thirty of us.

1906, Jack London, chapter XVIII, in Before Adam:

(intransitive) To walk about, roam or stroll.


lurch

Originally a nautical term, found in lee-larches (“the sudden and violent rolls of a ship to the leeward in high seas”), of unknown origin. Possibly the same as lurch (“to move stealthily, evade by stooping”) (see below), or from French lâcher (“to let go”).

unk

unknown

the lurch of a ship, or of a drunkard

The ship was driving rapidly towards the rocky coast, against which she must have been dashed to pieces had she kept afloat a few minutes longer, but she gave a lurch and went down, rose again for an instant, and with another lurch sank, and all was over,—and there were nearly two hundred and fifty human beings struggling with the waves.

1850, William O. S. Gilly, “The Tribune”, in Narratives of Shipwrecks of the Royal Navy […] , London: John W. Parker:

Yet I hoped by grouting at the earth below it to be able to dislodge the stone at the side; but while I was considering how best to begin, the candle flickered, the wick gave a sudden lurch to one side, and I was left in darkness.

[1898], J[ohn] Meade Falkner, Moonfleet, London; Toronto, Ont.: Jonathan Cape, published 1934, →OCLC:


lurch

en-verb

lurch (third-person singular simple present lurches, present participle lurching, simple past and past participle lurched)

lurches (present singular third-person)
lurching (participle present)
lurched (participle past)
lurched (past)

unk

unknown

It occurred to me there was no time to lose, and dodging the boom as it once more lurched across the deck, I slipped aft and down the companion stairs into the cabin.

1881–1882, Robert Louis Stevenson, “I Strike the Jolly Roger”, in Treasure Island, London; Paris: Cassell & Company, published 14 November 1883, →OCLC:

The incident made it think, apparently, that the neighborhood was dangerous, for it slowly lurched off through the wood, followed by its mate and its three enormous infants.

1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:

Number One lurched forward, his arms outstretched toward the horror stricken girl.

1913, Edgar Rice Burroughs, chapter 3, in The Monster Men, published 1929:

He was looking for trouble. He lurched against a table at which three soldiers were sitting and knocked over a glass of beer.

1919, W[illiam] Somerset Maugham, chapter XLVII, in The Moon and Sixpence, [New York, N.Y.]: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers […], →OCLC:

To make such a sudden, unsteady movement.

Lurch in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)


lurch

From Middle English lorchen, variant of Middle English lurken (“to lurk”). More at lurk.

(dialectal, intransitive) To take by surprise; to unexpectedly detain.


shuffle

Originally the same word as scuffle, and properly a frequentative of shove.

(dance) A dance move in which the foot is scuffed across the floor back and forth.


shuffle

en-verb

shuffle (third-person singular simple present shuffles, present participle shuffling, simple past and past participle shuffled)

shuffles (present singular third-person)
shuffling (participle present)
shuffled (participle past)
shuffled (past)

shuffle the chairs on the deck of the Titanic

He shuffled out of the room.

I shuffled my feet in embarrassment.

[T]he aged creature came, / Shuffling along with ivory-headed wand, […]

1819, John Keats, “The Eve of St. Agnes”, in Lamia, Isabella, the Eve of St. Agnes, and Other Poems, London: […] [Thomas Davison] for Taylor and Hessey, […], published 1820, →OCLC, stanza XI, page 88:

Even when the other instruments were resting the pianist kept up his monotonous vamping, with a dreary furbelow for embellishment here and there, to which some few of the dancers continued to shuffle round the floor.

1954, Alexander Alderson, chapter 4, in The Subtle Minotaur:

The regular crowd shuffle in

(transitive, intransitive) To move in a slovenly, dragging manner; to drag or scrape the feet in walking or dancing.

I myself, […] hiding mine honour in my necessity, am fain to shuffle.

c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merry Wiues of Windsor”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii]:

To change one's position; to shift ground; to evade questions; to resort to equivocation; to prevaricate.


canter

Short for Canterbury pace, from the supposed easy pace of medieval pilgrims to Canterbury.

A gait of a horse between a trot and a gallop, consisting of three beats and a "suspension" phase, where there are no feet on the ground. Also describing this gait on other four-legged animals.


dawdle

dawdle (third-person singular simple present dawdles, present participle dawdling, simple past and past participle dawdled)

dawdles (present singular third-person)
dawdling (participle present)
dawdled (participle past)
dawdled (past)
dawdle (infinitive)

The verb is possibly:
* a variant of daddle (“(Britain, dialectal) to walk or work slowly, dawdle, saunter, trifle”) or doddle (“(Britain, dialectal) to walk feebly or slowly, dawdle, idle, saunter, stroll”), possibly influenced by daw (“(Britain, dialectal) lazy, good-for-nothing person, sluggard”); or
* borrowed from Middle Low German dȫdelen (“to dawdle”), related to Saterland Frisian döädelje (“to dawdle”); compare also German daddeln (“to play”), German verdaddeln (“to waste (time), neglect, ruin”).
The noun is derived from the verb.

cog

Tell him, if he'll call on me, and davvdle over a diſh of tea in an afternoon, I ſhall take it kind.

1791, James Boswell, quoting Samuel Johnson, “[1781]”, in James Boswell, editor, The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. […], volume II, London: […] Henry Baldwin, for Charles Dilly, […], →OCLC, page 405:

Mr. Collins was not left long to the silent contemplation of his successful love; for Mrs. Bennett, having dawdled about in the vestibule to watch for the end of the conference, no sooner saw Elizabeth open the door and with quick step pass he towards the staircase, than she entered the breakfast-room, and congratulated both him and herself in warm terms on the happy prospect of their nearer connection.

1813 January 27, [Jane Austen], chapter XX, in Pride and Prejudice: […], volume I, London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, page 255:

You all know when you learn with a will, and when you dawdle. There's no doubt of conscience about that, I suppose?

1866, John Ruskin, “Crystal Virtues”, in The Ethics of the Dust: Ten Lectures to Little Housewives on the Elements of Crystallisation, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., […], →OCLC, page 90:

There are no idlers here; the only loungers are those who have undertaken for hire to do other people's business, and the hireling dawdleth because he is an hireling. What is his master's business to him? he neither knows its importance nor yet cares he if it be neglected.

1888, [Julia Clara Byrne], chapter X, in De Omnibus Rebus: An Old Man’s Discursive Ramblings on the Road of Everyday Life […], John C. Nimmo […], →OCLC, pages 263–264:

White creature wholly white, thou winter-coloured imp, tongue-shaped and slippery, 'wall-streak' and 'rubbish of the floor,' that livest 'neath timbers of a house, that dawdlest underneath the nook, […]

1898, John Abercromby, “Charms of the East Finns, Russians, Letts, etc.”, in The Pre- and Proto-historic Finns: Both Eastern and Western with the Magic Songs of the West Finns, volume II, London: David Nutt […], →OCLC, § 86 (Against the Cow-house Snake), subsection b, page 172:

However all [Wayne] Hennessey's good work went to waste on 52 minutes when he dawdled on the ball.

2011 October 29, Neil Johnston, “Norwich 3 – 3 Blackburn”, in BBC Sport, archived from the original on 2023-02-03:

To spend time idly and unfruitfully; to waste time.

счита́ть га́лок impf (sčitátʹ gálok, literally “count the jackdaws”)

If you dawdle on your daily walk, you won’t get as much exercise.

[W]e, who, in muddy boots, dawdle up and down Pall Mall, and peep into the coaches as they drive up with the great folks in their feathers— […]

1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, “In which the Reader is Introduced to the Very Best of Company”, in Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, →OCLC, page 427:

[…] I began to wonder if this Arthur were really the same lad she used to pet and think so much of when he came down to Leatherhead and dawdled with my Lady and Bell along the Surrey lanes of an evening.

1872, William Black, “Saved!”, in The Strange Adventures of a Phaeton. […], 2nd edition, volume I, London: Macmillan and Co., →OCLC, page 267:

Blessed are the drivers who dawdleth not in the fast lane.

2005, Charles Manley Brown, “Laws and Regulations”, in Thou Shalt Not Take Thyself too … Seriously: The Lighter Side of the Golden Years, Victoria, B.C.: Trafford Publishing, →ISBN, page 68:

(intransitive)
To move or walk lackadaisically.


dawdle

An act of spending time idly and unfruitfully; a dawdling.

For many the journey home from school was not a walk but a ‘dawdle’: it was an everyday experience that added meaning to their lives.

2017, Colin G. Pooley, Jean Turnbull, Mags Adams, “Travelling to School”, in A Mobile Century?: Changes in Everyday Mobility in Britain in the Twentieth Century, Aldershot, Hampshire: Ashgate, →ISBN:

An act of moving or walking lackadaisically, a dawdling; a leisurely or slow walk or other journey.


stumble

en-verb

stumble (third-person singular simple present stumbles, present participle stumbling, simple past and past participle stumbled)

stumbles (present singular third-person)
stumbling (participle present)
stumbled (participle past)
stumbled (past)

Ultimately from Proto-Germanic *stam- (“to trip up; to stammer, stutter”), thereby related to German stumm (“mute”), Dutch stom (“dumb”). Doublet of stammer.

inh

Slowly, I turned around and the shock of it stumbled me back a few steps.

2017, Jacqueline Druga, Sleepers, page 39:

(transitive) To cause to stumble or trip.


caminar

ca-verb

caminar (first-person singular present camino, first-person singular preterite caminí, past participle caminat)

camino (first-person present singular)
caminí (first-person preterite singular)
caminat (participle past)
caminar (infinitive)
caminant (gerund)
caminat (masculine participle past singular)
caminada (feminine participle past singular)
caminats (masculine participle past plural)
caminades (feminine participle past plural)
camino (first-person indicative present singular)
camines (indicative present second-person singular)
camina (indicative present singular third-person)
caminem (first-person indicative plural present)
camineu (indicative plural present second-person)
caminen (indicative plural present third-person)
caminava (first-person imperfect indicative singular)
caminaves (imperfect indicative second-person singular)
caminava (imperfect indicative singular third-person)
caminàvem (first-person imperfect indicative plural)
caminàveu (imperfect indicative plural second-person)
caminaven (imperfect indicative plural third-person)
caminaré (first-person future indicative singular)
caminaràs (future indicative second-person singular)
caminarà (future indicative singular third-person)
caminarem (first-person future indicative plural)
caminareu (future indicative plural second-person)
caminaran (future indicative plural third-person)
caminí (first-person indicative preterite singular)
caminares (indicative preterite second-person singular)
caminà (indicative preterite singular third-person)
caminàrem (first-person indicative plural preterite)
caminàreu (indicative plural preterite second-person)
caminaren (indicative plural preterite third-person)
caminaria (conditional first-person indicative singular)
caminaries (conditional indicative second-person singular)
caminaria (conditional indicative singular third-person)
caminaríem (conditional first-person indicative plural)
caminaríeu (conditional indicative plural second-person)
caminarien (conditional indicative plural third-person)
camini (first-person present singular subjunctive)
caminis (present second-person singular subjunctive)
camini (present singular subjunctive third-person)
caminem (first-person plural present subjunctive)
camineu (plural present second-person subjunctive)
caminin (plural present subjunctive third-person)
caminés (first-person imperfect singular subjunctive)
caminessis (imperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
caminés (imperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
caminéssim (first-person imperfect plural subjunctive)
caminéssiu (imperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
caminessin (imperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
camina (imperative second-person)
camini (formal imperative second-person-semantically singular)
caminem (first-person imperative plural)
camineu (imperative plural second-person)
caminin (formal imperative plural second-person-semantically)
no caminis (imperative negative second-person)
no camini (formal imperative negative second-person-semantically singular)
no caminem (first-person imperative negative plural)
no camineu (imperative negative plural second-person)
no caminin (formal imperative negative plural second-person-semantically)

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *cammīnāre. By surface analysis, camí + -ar.


patrol

en-noun

patrol (countable and uncountable, plural patrols)

From French patrouille, from Old French patrouille, patouille (“a night-watch”, literally “a tramping about”), from patrouiller, patouiller, patoiller (“to paddle or pudder in water, dabble with the feet, begrime, besmear”), from patte, pate (“paw, foot of an animal”), from Vulgar Latin *patta (“paw, foot”), from Frankish *patta (“paw, sole of the foot”), from Proto-Germanic *paþjaną, *paþōną (“to walk, tread, go, step, pace”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *(s)pent-, *(s)pat- (“path; to walk”), a variant of Proto-Indo-European *pent-, *pat- (“path; to go”); see find. Cognate with Dutch pad, patte (“paw”), Low German pedden (“to step, tread”), German patschen (“to splash, smack, dabble, waddle”), German Patsche (“a swatter, beater, paw, puddle, mire”). Related to pad, path.

cog

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Mélange a trois-patrol.wav

(military) A movement, by a small body of troops beyond the line of outposts, to explore the country and gain intelligence of the enemy's whereabouts.

دَوْرِيَّة

movement by a small body of troops beyond the line of outposts


parade

en-noun

parade (countable and uncountable, plural parades)

→ Hindi: परैड (paraiḍ)

→ Urdu: پریڈ (paraiḍ)

From French parade (“an ostentatious display, a military display”), from parer (“to beautify, prepare, take pride in”) + -ade probably under influence from earlier Italian parata (“preparation, a military parade, an ostentatious display”) and Latin magnō parātū (“with great preparation”). Various senses similarly influenced by earlier French and Italian uses. Doublet of pare.

der

This Square is calcled the Parade.

1697, William Dampier, A New Voyage round the World, page 219:

...at no great distance from them, where the shoreline curved round, and formed a long riband of shade upon the horizon, a series of points of yellow light began to start into existence, denoting the spot to be the site of Budmouth, where the lamps were being lighted along the parade.

1874, Thomas Hardy, chapter 47, in Far from the Madding Crowd:

Glasgow's most fashionable Sunday parade, the ‘crawl’ on Great Western-road.

After walking a mile or two farther, they found that the shore was beginning to be formally embanked, so as to form something like a parade; the ugly lamp-posts became less few and far between and more ornamental, though quite equally ugly.

1914, G. K. Chesterton, “The God of the Gongs”, in The Wisdom of Father Brown, p. 216:

A place reserved for such displays, particularly

(dated) Synonym of promenade: A route, street, or square frequented by pedestrians or formerly used for military parades.


parade

en-verb

parade (third-person singular simple present parades, present participle parading, simple past and past participle paraded)

parades (present singular third-person)
parading (participle present)
paraded (participle past)
paraded (past)

The whole family paraded it together.

1753, Samuel Richardson, History of Sir Charles Grandison, volume V, page 46:

... it was her favorite amusement to array herself in the faded brocades, and parade up and down before the long mirror, making stately curtsies, and sweeping her train about with a rustle which delighted her ears.

1868, Louisa May Alcott, chapter 19, in Little Women:

[...] if you’re going to parade around with that robe hanging open you’re going to get yourself some bronchitis.

1929, Dashiell Hammett, chapter 22, in The Dain Curse:

... Mrs. Parsons, the principal’s wife, would play the graduation march while the lower-grade graduates paraded down the aisles and took their seats below the platform.

1969, Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, page 166:

Stretcher after stretcher paraded into the lot—I was aghast; there seemed no end to them.

2003, Lionel Shriver, We Need to Talk About Kevin, page 381:

(intransitive) To take part in a parade, particularly

(figurative) Synonym of promenade: to walk up and down, especially in public in order to show off and be seen by others.


tiptoe

[ˈtʰɪpˌtʰəʊ̯]

[ˈtʰɪpˌtʰoʊ̯]

From Middle English tipto, typto; equivalent to tip + toe.

Night's candles are burnt out, and jocund day / Stands tiptoe on the misty mountain tops.

c. 1591–1595 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Romeo and Ivliet”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene v]:

And ever as they talked Beregond was more amazed, and looked with greater wonder at the hobbit, swinging his short legs as he sat on the seat, or standing tiptoe upon it to peer over the sill at the lands below.

1955 October 20, J[ohn] R[onald] R[euel] Tolkien, “Minas Tirith”, in The Return of the King: Being the Third Part of The Lord of the Rings […], New York, N.Y.: Ballantine Books, published December 1978, →ISBN, book V, page 39:

Standing elevated, on or as if on the tips of one's toes.

with tiptoe step

And stole along on tiptoe tread

1819, Lord Byron, The Prophecy of Dante:

Moving carefully, quietly, warily or stealthily, on or as if on the tips of one's toes.


tiptoe

tiptoe (third-person singular simple present tiptoes, present participle tiptoeing, simple past and past participle tiptoed)

tiptoes (present singular third-person)
tiptoeing (participle present)
tiptoed (participle past)
tiptoed (past)

[ˈtʰɪpˌtʰəʊ̯]

[ˈtʰɪpˌtʰoʊ̯]

We went tip-toeing along a path amongst the trees back towards the end of the widow's garden, stooping down so as the branches wouldn't scrape our heads.

1884 December 10, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], chapter II, in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: (Tom Sawyer’s Comrade) […], London: Chatto & Windus, […], →OCLC, page 8:

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.

1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter XIII, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y., London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:

Tiptoe through the window / By the window, that is where I'll be / Come tiptoe through the tulips with me / Tiptoe from your pillow / To the shadow of the willow tree / And tiptoe through the tulips with me.

1929, “Tiptoe Through the Tulips”, Al Dubin (lyrics), Joe Burke (music), performed by Nick Lucas:

(intransitive) To walk quietly with only the tips of the toes touching the ground.


tear along

tear along (third-person singular simple present tears along, present participle tearing along, simple past tore along, past participle torn along)

tears along (present singular third-person)
tearing along (participle present)
tore along (past)
torn along (participle past)

(transitive) To run quickly along somewhere.


sashay

sashay (third-person singular simple present sashays, present participle sashaying, simple past and past participle sashayed)

sashays (present singular third-person)
sashaying (participle present)
sashayed (participle past)
sashayed (past)

Verlan (or metathesis) form of French chassé, past participle of chasser (“chase”), from Latin captō, frequentative of capiō (“I take”).

“Fresh guy,” explained Aileen, “last night as I was going home at Twenty-third and Sixth. Sashayed up, so he did, and made a break. I turned him down, cold, and he made a sneak; […]

1906 April, O. Henry [pseudonym; William Sydney Porter], “The Brief Début Of Tildy”, in The Four Million, New York, N.Y.: McClure, Phillips & Co, →OCLC, page 256:

Some time, when they shift some decent guards on us that will give us a peep at a newspaper, you get yourself thrown into the jacket, climb out of your body, and sashay down to little old ’Frisco.

… He got on Forty-second Street, and he was kinda fresh from the start. At Sixty-sixth he came sasshaying^([sic]) right down the car and said ‘Hello, patootie!’ Well, I drew myself up …

1920 April 10 – August 28, Pelham Grenville Wodehouse, chapter 11, in The Little Warrior [Jill the Reckless], New York, N.Y.: George H[enry] Doran Company, published 8 October 1920, →OCLC, section 1, page 194:

It does amuse to remember the fadeout road of Chaplin's silent days, the empty dusty vista down which, at the end of every adventure, the little bum recedingly sashayed, knapsack aboard.

1959, Truman Capote, Observations. […], page 18:

Goldie pulled her skirts up in front of her, gave Elijah a look over her shoulder, and sashayed away.

1994, Walter Dean Myers, The Glory Field, →ISBN, page 80:

She sashayed into the villa as just another bombshell, but stole the show.

2022 October 15, Zoe Williams, “Love Island winner Ekin-Su on sex, spin-offs and surgery […] ”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC:

(intransitive) To walk casually, showily, or in a flirty manner; to strut, swagger or flounce.

перча се

to walk casually, showily, or in a flirty manner


loiter

loiter (third-person singular simple present loiters, present participle loitering, simple past and past participle loitered)

loiters (present singular third-person)
loitering (participle present)
loitered (participle past)
loitered (past)

From Middle English loitren, from Middle Dutch loteren ("to shake, wag, wobble"; > modern Dutch leuteren (“to dawdle, ramble”)), ultimately connected with a frequentative form of Proto-Germanic *lūtaną (“to bend, stoop, cower, shrink from, decline”), see lout. Cognate with Dutch leuteren (“to dawdle”), Alemannic German lottern (“to wobble”), German Lotterbube (“rascal”). More at lout, little.

gl

"to shake, wag, wobble"; > modern Dutch <i class="Latn mention" lang="nl">leuteren</i> (“to dawdle, ramble”)

der

With weary steps I loiter on,
Tho’ always under alter’d skies
The purple from the distance dies,
My prospect and horizon gone.

1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, Canto XXXVIII, page 59:

(archaic) To stroll about without any aim or purpose, to ramble, to wander.


clump

en-verb

clump (third-person singular simple present clumps, present participle clumping, simple past and past participle clumped)

clumps (present singular third-person)
clumping (participle present)
clumped (participle past)
clumped (past)

From Middle English clompe, from Old English clymppe, a variant of clympre (“a lump or mass of metal”), from Proto-Germanic *klumpô (“mass, lump, clump; clasp”), from Proto-Indo-European *glembʰ- (“lump, clamp”).
Alternatively, possibly from Middle Dutch clompe or Middle Low German klumpe (compare German Klumpen). Cognates include Danish klump (probably from Low German as well). Compare Norwegian Bokmål klump.

der

(intransitive) To walk with heavy footfalls.


trava

trava (nominative singular)
travat (nominative plural)
travan (genitive singular)
travvoin (genitive plural)
travvaa (partitive singular)
travoja (partitive plural)
travvaa (illative singular)
travvoi (illative plural)
travas (inessive singular)
travois (inessive plural)
travast (elative singular)
travoist (elative plural)
travalle (allative singular)
travoille (allative plural)
traval (adessive singular)
travoil (adessive plural)
travalt (ablative singular)
travoilt (ablative plural)
travaks (singular translative)
travoiks (plural translative)
travanna (essive singular)
travvaan (essive singular)
travoinna (essive plural)
travvoin (essive plural)
travant (exessive singular)
travoint (exessive plural)

Ultimately from Swedish trav. Cognate with Finnish ravi.

trot (specific type of running of a horse)


trava

head

trava (present travar, preterite travade, supine travat, imperative trava)

travar (present)
travade (preterite)
travat (supine)
trava (imperative)
trava (active infinitive)
travas (infinitive passive)
travat (active supine)
travats (passive supine)
trava (active imperative)
traven (active archaic imperative plural)
travar (active indicative present)
travade (active indicative past)
travas (indicative passive present)
travades (indicative passive past)
trava (active archaic indicative plural present)
travade (active archaic indicative past plural)
travas (archaic indicative passive plural present)
travades (archaic indicative passive past plural)
trave (active dated present subjunctive)
travade (active dated past subjunctive)
traves (dated passive present subjunctive)
travades (dated passive past subjunctive)
travande (participle present)
travad (participle past)

Inherited from Old Swedish trava, likely from Middle Low German traven. Cognate of Latin trepidus


springen

springen (strong class 3, third-person singular present indicative sprink, past participle gisprunk, auxiliary soin)

sprink (indicative present singular third-person)
gisprunk (participle past)
soin (auxiliary)

From Middle High German springen, from Old High German springan, from Proto-Germanic *springaną (“to jump; to burst”). Cognate with German springen, English spring.


plod

en-verb

plod (third-person singular simple present plods, present participle plodding, simple past and past participle plodded)

plods (present singular third-person)
plodding (participle present)
plodded (participle past)
plodded (past)

From Middle English *plodden (found only in derivative plodder), probably originally a splash through water and mud, from plodde, pludde (“a puddle”) (whence modern plud). Compare Scots plod, plodge, plodder, dialectal Dutch plodden, plodderen, dialectal German ploddern, Danish pladder (“mire”).

The beast that bears me, tired with my woe,
Plods dully on, to bear that weight in me,

1609, William Shakespeare, “Sonnet 50”, in Shake-speares Sonnets. […], London: By G[eorge] Eld for T[homas] T[horpe] and are to be sold by William Aspley, →OCLC:

I remember him as if it were yesterday, as he came plodding to the inn door, his sea chest following behind him in a handbarrow;

1881–1882, Robert Louis Stevenson, chapter 1, in Treasure Island, London; Paris: Cassell & Company, published 14 November 1883, →OCLC, part I (The Old Buccaneer), page 1:

(intransitive) To walk or move slowly and heavily or laboriously (+ on, through, over).

Quest[ion]. Where was Ioseph?
Answ[er]. It may be, he was playing the Carpenter abrode for all their three livings, but sure it is, he was not idlely plodding the streetes, much lesse tipling in the Taverne with our idle swingers.

1596, Henoch Clapham, A Briefe of the Bible, Edinburgh: Robert Walde-grave, page 127:

1799, Matthew Gregory Lewis, The Love of Gain, London: J. Bell, p. 50, lines 449-451,
[…] Speed thou to Lombard-street,
Or plod the gambling 'Change with busy feet,
'Midst Bulls and Bears some false report to spread,

Break no rosemary, bright with rime
And sparkling to the cruel clime;
Nor plod the winter land to look
For willows in the icy brook
To cast them leafless round him […]

1896, A. E. Housman, A Shropshire Lad, London: The Richards Press, XLVI, pp. 69-70:


plod

en-noun

plod (usually uncountable, plural plods)

(UK, mildly derogatory, uncountable, usually with "the") the police, police officers


ramble

en-verb

ramble (third-person singular simple present rambles, present participle rambling, simple past and past participle rambled)

rambles (present singular third-person)
rambling (participle present)
rambled (participle past)
rambled (past)

An altered form (with dissimilation of mm to mb) of dialectal rammle, from Middle English *ramlen, *ramelen, frequentative of Middle English ramen (“to roam, ramble”); compare Swedish ramla (“to stumble; fall; make a noise; rumble”), Danish ramle (“to stumble; collapse; thunder; boom”); equivalent to roam + -le.
"mid-15 c., perhaps frequentative of 'romen' 'to walk, go' perhaps via 'romblen' (late 14 c.) 'to ramble.' The vowel change perhaps by influence of Middle Dutch 'rammelen,' a derivative of 'rammen' 'copulate,' 'used of the night wanderings of the amorous cat.' Meaning 'to talk or write incoherently' is from 1630s".

cog

To move about aimlessly, or on a winding course.


dodder

en-noun

dodder (countable and uncountable, plural dodders)

From Middle English doder (“flax dodder”), from Middle Dutch doder, from Old Dutch *doder, ultimately from Proto-West Germanic *dodr (viz. theories of origin). Cognate with Middle Low German doder, West Flemish dodder.

Any of about 100-170 species of yellow, orange or red (rarely green) parasitic plants of the genus Cuscuta. Formerly treated as the only genus in the family Cuscutaceae, it is now placed in the morning glory family, Convolvulaceae.

dodder

parasitic plant (of about 100-170 species) of the genus Cuscuta

𒃢

of debated identification, possible the source of Aramaic and Arabic

καδύτας

from a single locus in Hesychios, insecure

cadytas

from a single locus in Plinius, insecure

cuscūtha f (spread from Avicenna translations)

Chilean dodder

Cuscuta suaveolens or Cuscuta racemosa var. chileana

large-seeded alfalfa dodder )Cuscuta campestris


gallop

From Middle English galopen (“to gallop”), from Old French galoper (compare modern French galoper), from Frankish *wala hlaupan (“to run well”), from *wala (“well”) + *hlaupan (“to run”), from Proto-Germanic *hlaupaną (“to run, leap, spring”), from Proto-Indo-European *klaup-, *klaub- (“to spring, stumble”). Possibly also derived from a deverbal of Frankish *walhlaup (“battle run”) from *wal (“battlefield”) from a Proto-Germanic word meaning "dead, victim, slain" from Proto-Indo-European *wel- (“death in battle, killed in battle”) + *hlaup (“course, track”) from *hlaupan (“to run”).
More at well, leap, valkyrie. See also the doublet wallop, coming from the same source through an Old Northern French variant.

der

The fastest gait of a horse, a two-beat stride during which all four legs are off the ground simultaneously.


prance

en-verb

prance (third-person singular simple present prances, present participle prancing, simple past and past participle pranced)

prances (present singular third-person)
prancing (participle present)
pranced (participle past)
pranced (past)

From Middle English prancen, prauncen (“to prance”, literally “to show off”), variant of Middle English pranken (“to prank”), thus probably from the same ultimate root as prank. Cognate with Bavarian prangezen, prangssen (“to put on airs”), Alemannic German pranzen (“to strut”).

(of a horse) To spring forward on the hind legs.

John's daughter was prancing about the sitting room, practicing for her school dance.

(colloquial, figuratively) To strut about in a showy manner.


prance

There seemed a little prance of triumph in his movement,


slink

slink (third-person singular simple present slinks, present participle slinking, simple past and past participle slunk or slinked or (uncommon) slank)

slinks (present singular third-person)
slinking (participle present)
slunk (participle past)
slunk (past)
slinked (participle past)
slinked (past)
slank (participle past uncommon)
slank (past uncommon)

From Middle English slynken, sclynken, from Old English slincan (“to creep; crawl”), from Proto-Germanic *slinkaną (“to creep; crawl”), from Proto-Indo-European *sleng-, *slenk- (“to turn; wind; twist”), from Proto-Indo-European *sel- (“to sneak; crawl”). Cognate with West Frisian slinke, Dutch slinken (“to shrink; shrivel”), Low German slinken, Swedish slinka (“to glide”). Compare also German schleichen (“to slink”). More at sleek.

der

As we do turn our backs
From our companion thrown into his grave,
So his familiars to his buried fortunes
Slink all away, leave their false vows with him,
Like empty purses pick’d; and his poor self,
A dedicated beggar to the air,
With his disease of all-shunn’d poverty,
Walks, like contempt, alone.

c. 1605–1608, William Shakespeare, “The Life of Tymon of Athens”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene ii]:

Back to the thicket slunk the guilty serpent.

1667, John Milton, “Book IX”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:

The leaving us was just a feint; / Back here to London did he slink, / And now works on without a wink / Of sleep, and we are on the brink

Joseph Poorgrass, in the background, twitched, and his lips became dry with fear of some terrible consequences as he saw Bathsheba summarily speaking, and Henery slinking off to a corner.

1874, Thomas Hardy, Far from the Madding Crowd. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Smith, Elder & Co., […], →OCLC:

Far away I saw a gaunt cat slink crouchingly along a wall, but traces of men there were none.

1895–1897, H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells, “The Stillness”, in The War of the Worlds, London: William Heinemann, published 1898, →OCLC, book II (The Earth under the Martians), page 239:

How meek and shrunken did that haughty Tarmac become as it slunk by the wide circle of asphalt of the yellow sort, that was loosely strewn before the great iron gates of Lady Hall as a forerunner of the consideration that awaited the guests of Rupert, Earl of Kare, […].

1922, Michael Arlen, “3/1/1”, in “Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days:

Earnest slunk backstage.

2013 November, Glenn Thrush, “Locked in the Cabinet”, in POLITICO:

I have arrived to catch the 0830 TfW service to Crewe, worked by a tatty and unrefurbished 175114. As if ashamed of its appearance, it slinks into Platform 2 (instead of Platform 1, where it was expected). No announcement had been made, and we leave without any fanfare.

2020 December 2, Paul Bigland, “My weirdest and wackiest Rover yet”, in Rail, page 67:

(intransitive) To sneak about furtively.

a cow that slinks her calf

(transitive, intransitive) To give birth to an animal prematurely.


slink

en-noun

slink (countable and uncountable, plural slinks)

(UK, Scotland, dialect) A thievish fellow; a sneak.


slink

en-adj

slink (comparative more slink, superlative most slink)

more slink (comparative)
most slink (superlative)


toddle

Of unknown origin. Possibly a byform of totter.

unk

unknown


skeið

is-noun

skeið n (genitive singular skeiðs, nominative plural skeið)

skeiðs (genitive singular)
skeið (nominative plural)
skeið (indefinite nominative singular)
skeiðið (definite nominative singular)
skeið (indefinite nominative plural)
skeiðin (definite nominative plural)
skeið (accusative indefinite singular)
skeiðið (accusative definite singular)
skeið (accusative indefinite plural)
skeiðin (accusative definite plural)
skeiði (dative indefinite singular)
skeiðinu (dative definite singular)
skeiðum (dative indefinite plural)
skeiðunum (dative definite plural)
skeiðs (genitive indefinite singular)
skeiðsins (definite genitive singular)
skeiða (genitive indefinite plural)
skeiðanna (definite genitive plural)

Inherited from Old Norse skeið (“race; race course; piece of way; space of time”), from Proto-Germanic *skaiþaną (“to separate”), ultimately from the same origin as the "spoon" sense of Etymology 1.

der

(gaits, equestrianism) an amble, an easy gait


hustle

en-verb

hustle (third-person singular simple present hustles, present participle hustling, simple past and past participle hustled)

hustles (present singular third-person)
hustling (participle present)
hustled (participle past)
hustled (past)

Dutch: hosselen

From Dutch husselen or by metathesis from Dutch hutselen (“to shake up”), a frequentative of hutsen (“to stir, to move something (back and forth)”).

There was a person called Nana who ruled the nursery. Sometimes she took no notice of the playthings lying about, and sometimes, for no reason whatever, she went swooping about like a great wind and hustled them away in cupboards.

1922, Margery Williams, The Velveteen Rabbit:

(transitive) To bundle; to stow something quickly.


peregrinate

en-adj

peregrinate (comparative more peregrinate, superlative most peregrinate)

more peregrinate (comparative)
most peregrinate (superlative)

From Latin peregrinatus (“having travelled abroad”), past participle of peregrinari.

der

/ˈpɛ.ɹɪ.ɡɹəˌneɪt/

His humour is loftie, his diſcourſe peremptorie: his tongue fyled, his eye ambitious, his gate maieſticall and his general behauiour vaine, rediculous, & thraſonicall. He is too picked, too ſpruce, too affected, to od, as it were, too peregrinat as I may call it.

c. 1595–1596 (date written), W. Shakespere [i.e., William Shakespeare], A Pleasant Conceited Comedie Called, Loues Labors Lost. […] (First Quarto), London: […] W[illiam] W[hite] for Cut[h]bert Burby, published 1598, →OCLC; republished as Shakspere’s Loves Labours Lost (Shakspere-Quarto Facsimiles; no. 5), London: W[illiam] Griggs, […], [1880], →OCLC, [Act V, scene i]:

Imagine this figure, grotesque, peregrinate, and to the eye of a peasant certainly diabolical, then perch it on the stile in the midst of those green English fields, and in sight of that primitive English village; there let it sit straddling, its long legs dangling down, a short German pipe emitting clouds from one corner of those sardonic lips, its dark eyes glaring through the spectacles full upon the Parson, yet askant upon Lenny Fairfield. Lenny Fairfield looked exceedingly frightened.

1853, Pisistratus Caxton [pseudonym; Edward Bulwer-Lytton], chapter IV, in “My Novel”; Or Varieties in English Life […], volume I, Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC, book first, page 21:

1992, Julia Bolton Holloway, The Pilgrim and the Book http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&vid=ISBN0820420905&id=x0wYJrkBc08C&pg=RA2-PA130&lpg=RA2-PA130&dq=peregrinate&sig=kU3-LAXXKwKQb_GW3AnzXq8eryU
Other apprentices on this pilgrimage have been the worldly Squire to the peregrinate Knight to whom are juxtaposed the peregrinate Second Nun to the worldly Prioress.

(rare) Peregrine; having travelled; exotic, foreign.

pérégrin

peregrine; having traveled; foreign, exotic


galumph

en-verb

galumph (third-person singular simple present galumphs, present participle galumphing, simple past and past participle galumphed)

galumphs (present singular third-person)
galumphing (participle present)
galumphed (participle past)
galumphed (past)

Back-formation from galumphing in Lewis Carroll's “Jabberwocky”.

The Wild Things are a triumph of stagecraft, and they galumph away with the show.

1990, John von Rhein, The Chicago Tribune, "Wild Things Perfect Fare for Holidays", December 19, 1990

Lily's heart galumphed. This wasn't the same temp she'd bribed away yesterday. Something had gone haywire. She braced herself. Myra looked at the woman, then at Lily, who was suddenly busy with her stenography.

2008, Denise Hamilton, The Last Embrace, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 137:

The big fellow finally took a long look at the thing under his chin, and the current disturbance, and galumphed away, but Claudio was still dancing from boulder to boulder, trying to keep away from the teeth of the lunging females.

2013, William Conway, Act III in Patagonia: People and Wildlife, Island Press, →ISBN, page 186:

In 2024, we might occasionally raise an eyebrow at Eurovision’s galumphing attempts to keep pace with pop culture – a bit of awkward rapping here, a clumsily deployed trap beat there, […]

2024 April 5, Alexis Petridis, “Abba, cabaret and smug marionettes: the 1974 Eurovision song contest reviewed!”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:

(intransitive) To move heavily and clumsily, or with a sense of prancing and triumph.

(intransitive) (of a seal) To move across land by undulating the body.

robben

(of a seal) to move across land by undulating the body


traipse

traipse (third-person singular simple present traipses, present participle traipsing, simple past and past participle traipsed)

traipses (present singular third-person)
traipsing (participle present)
traipsed (participle past)
traipsed (past)

Likely from French trépasser (“pass over or beyond”).

bor

After traipsing about in the fog they found the grave sure enough.

(intransitive, colloquial) To walk about, especially when expending much effort, or unnecessary effort.

She only got handy the Union-house on Sunday morning 'a b'lieve, and 'tis supposed here and there that she had traipsed every step of the way from Melchester.

1874, Thomas Hardy, Far From the Madding Crowd:

(transitive, colloquial) To walk (a distance or journey) wearily or with effort


traipse

It was a long traipse uphill all the way home.

it was an easy traipse down the rocky slope

2021, Neal Stephenson, Termination Shock:


curvet

From Italian corvetta, diminutive of corva, an early form of curva (“curve”), from Latin curva, feminine of curvus (“bent, curved”).

Complexion and constitution are alike revived by a drive in the Park—a white glove rests on the carriage window—and some 'gallant gray' or chestnut Arabian is curbed into curvets and foam by its whispering master.

1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XI, in Romance and Reality. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 93:

A particular leap in which a horse raises both forelegs at once, equally advanced, and, as the forelegs are falling, raises the hind legs, so that all the legs are in the air at once.


strut

en-verb

strut (third-person singular simple present struts, present participle strutting, simple past and past participle strutted)

struts (present singular third-person)
strutting (participle present)
strutted (participle past)
strutted (past)
strut (infinitive)

The verb is derived from Middle English strouten, struten (“to bulge, swell; to protrude, stick out; to bluster, threaten; to object forcefully; to create a disturbance; to fight; to display one's clothes in a proud or vain manner”) [and other forms], from Old English strūtian (“to project out; stand out stiffly; to exert oneself, struggle”), from Proto-Germanic *strūtōną, *strūtijaną (“to be puffed up, swell”), from Proto-Indo-European *streudʰ- (“rigid, stiff”), from *(s)ter- (“firm; strong; rigid, stiff”).
The English word is cognate with Danish strutte (“to bulge, bristle”), Low German strutt (“stiff”), Middle High German striuzen (“to bristle; to ruffle”) (modern German strotzen (“to bristle up”), sträußen (obsolete, except in Alemannic)); and compare Gothic 𐌸𐍂𐌿𐍄𐍃𐍆𐌹𐌻𐌻 (þrutsfill, “leprosy”), Old Norse þrútinn (“swollen”).
The noun is derived from the verb. Noun sense 2 (“instrument for adjusting the pleats of a ruff”) appears to be due to a misreading of a 16th-century work which used the word stroout (strouted (“caused (something) to bulge, protrude, or swell; strutted”)).

nb...

strote, stroute, strouʒten, strowte, strut, strute

cog

Hark, hark, I heare, the ſtraine of ſtrutting Chanticlere cry cockadidle-dowe.

1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii], page 5, column 1:

The pheasant strutteth about in the midst of flowers; / The turtle-dove cooeth, and the nightingale warbleth from the cypress.

1883, Ferdusī [i.e., Ferdowsi], “The Gardens of Afrasiab”, in S[amuel] Robinson, transl., Persian Poetry for English Readers: Being Specimens of Six of the Greatest Classical Poets of Persia: Ferdusī, Nizāmī, Sādī, Jelāl-ad-dīn Rūmī, Hāfiz, and Jāmī […], [Glasgow]: […] [M‘Laren & Son] for private circulation, →OCLC, section IV (Miscellaneous Specimens of the “Shah-Namah”), page 93:

He thought that whenne Thanksgyving came he'd looke soe payle & thynne, / He colde avoid ye usual role ye Turkye strutteth inne.

1887 November 24, “Ye Scheme of Ye Turkye Bold: Ytts Faylure”, in Life, volume X, number 256, New York, N.Y.: Published at the Life Office – […], published 19 July 1883, →OCLC, page 288:

(intransitive) Of a peacock or other fowl: to stand or walk stiffly, with the tail erect and spread out.

pullistella

of a peacock or other fowl: to stand or walk stiffly

Sometimes [the clitoris] groweth to such a length that it hangeth without the cleft like a mans member, especially when it is fretted with the touch of the cloaths, and so strutteth and groweth to a rigiditie as doth the yarde [penis] of a man.

1631, Helkiah Crooke, Μικροκοσμογραφια [Mikrokosmographia]. A Description of the Body of Man. […], 2nd edition, London: […] Thomas and Richard Cotes, and are to be sold by Michael Sparke, […], →OCLC; quoted in Valerie Traub, “The (In)Significance of ‘Lesbian’ Desire in Early Modern England”, in Jonathan Goldberg, editor, Queering the Renaissance, Durham, N.C., London: Duke University Press, 1994, →ISBN, page 66:

If the right breaſt ſwell and ſtrut out the Boy is well, if it flag it is a ſign of miſcarriage, judge the ſame of the Girle by the left breaſt, when it is ſunk, or round and hard, the firſt ſignifies abortion to be near, the other health and ſafety both of the Mother and the Child.

1671, Jane Sharp, “Of the Sympathy between the Womb and Other Parts, and How It is Wrought upon by Them”, in The Midwives Book. Or The Whole Art of Midwifry Discovered. […], London: […] Simon Miller, […], →OCLC, book II, page 132:

The Pow'r appeas'd, with winds ſuffic'd the ſail, / The bellying canvas ſtrutted with the gale; [...]

a. 1701 (date written), John Dryden, “The First Book of Homer’s Ilias”, in The Miscellaneous Works of John Dryden, […], volume IV, London: […] J[acob] and R[ichard] Tonson, […], published 1760, →OCLC, page 441:

[T]hey cut the tree where they see the bark to be fullest of liquor, and whereas they perceive it to be thinnest and strut out most. [Quoting Philemon Holland's translation of Pliny the Elder's Natural History, book XII, chapter 14.]

1869 April 1, George Birdwood, “III. On the Genus Boswellia, with Descriptions and Figures of Three New Species. […]”, in The Transactions of the Linnean Society of London, volume XXVII, 1st part, London: […] Taylor and Francis, […]; and by Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer, […], →OCLC, page 123:

(intransitive, obsolete) Often followed by out: to protuberate or stick out due to being full or swollen; to bulge, to swell.

pullistua

to protuberate or stick out due to being full or swollen — see also bulge, swell


strut

en-adj

strut (comparative more strut, superlative most strut)

more strut (comparative)
most strut (superlative)

Probably an archaic past participle of strut (“to (cause something to) bulge, protrude, or swell”), now replaced by strutted: see etymology 1.

(obsolete) Swelling out due to being full; bulging, protuberant, swollen.


promenade

/ˈpɹɒmənɑːd/

/pɹɒməˈnɑːd/

Unadapted borrowing from French promenade, from promener (“to walk”).

ubor

they told him to think no more of the matter , and to try his fortune in another promenade

1795–1797, Edmund Burke, “(please specify |letter=1 to 4)”, in [Letters on a Regicide Peace], London: [Rivington]:

His morning promenade.

Down in the arena, though, it was business as semi-normal with the band members making their traditional promenade through the crowd to a small in-the-round stage with a colourful player piano taking up most of the room.

2022 September 6, Fiona Shepherd, “Music review: Arcade Fire, Hydro, Glasgow”, in The Scotsman:

A walk taken for pleasure, display, or exercise; a stroll.