spacer

spacerek (diminutive)
spacer (nominative singular)
spacery (nominative plural)
spaceru (genitive singular)
spacerów (genitive plural)
spacerowi (dative singular)
spacerom (dative plural)
spacer (accusative singular)
spacery (accusative plural)
spacerem (instrumental singular)
spacerami (instrumental plural)
spacerze (locative singular)
spacerach (locative plural)
spacerze (singular vocative)
spacery (plural vocative)

stroll, walk (wandering on foot; idle and leisurely walk)


march

From Middle English marchen, from Middle French marcher (“to march, walk”), from Old French marchier (“to stride, to march, to trample”), from Frankish *markōn (“to mark, mark out, to press with the foot”), from Proto-Germanic *markōną (“to mark”), akin to Persian مرز (marz), from Proto-Indo-European *merǵ- (“edge, boundary”). Akin to Old English mearc, ġemearc (“mark, boundary”). Compare mark, from Old English mearcian.

der

Any song in the genre of music written for marching (see Wikipedia's article on this type of music)

mars

the march of time


march

en-verb

march (third-person singular simple present marches, present participle marching, simple past and past participle marched)

marches (present singular third-person)
marching (participle present)
marched (participle past)
marched (past)

march to the beat of a different drummer

The column marching in double file, the instructor commands: […]

1864, United States War Department, The 1864 Field Artillery Tactics, Stackpole Books, published 2005, →ISBN, page 120:

(intransitive) To walk with long, regular strides, as a soldier does.

The old man heaved himself from the chair, seized Jessamy by her pinafore frill and marched her to the house.

1967, Barbara Sleigh, Jessamy, Sevenoaks, Kent: Bloomsbury, published 1993, →ISBN, page 84:

(transitive) To cause someone to walk somewhere.

The armies drawing constantly nearer to each other, the king advised with his council, whether he should march against the Britons, or sall upon the count of Gharolois.

1746, Charles Pinot Duclos, The history of Lewis xi. king of France. Transl, page 169:

To go to war; to make military advances.


leap

From Middle English lepen, from Old English hlēapan, from Proto-West Germanic *hlaupan, from Proto-Germanic *hlaupaną. Doublet of lope, lowp, elope, gallop, galop, interlope, and loop.
Cognate with West Frisian ljeppe (“to jump”), Dutch lopen (“to run; to walk”), German laufen (“to run; to walk”), Danish løbe (“to run”), Norwegian Bokmål løpe (“to run”), from Proto-Indo-European *klewb- (“to spring, stumble”) (compare Lithuanian šlùbti ‘to become lame’, klùbti ‘to stumble’).

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That's one small step for [a] man, one giant leap for mankind.

1969 July 20, Neil Armstrong, as he became the first man to step on the moon:

Since the arrival of mainstream pornography platforms in the early 2000’s and the rise in smartphone use, online pornography consumption has shown considerable year on year leaps.

2024 May 30, Germano Vera Cruz, Elias Aboujaoude, Magdalena Liberacka-Dwojak, Monika Wiłkość-Dębczyńska, Lucien Rochat, Riaz Khan, Yasser Khazaal, “How much online pornography is too much? A comparison of two theoretically distinct assessment scales”, in Archives of Public Health, volume 82, →DOI:

(figuratively) A significant move forward.


spring

en-verb

spring (third-person singular simple present springs, present participle springing, simple past sprang or sprung, past participle sprung)

springs (present singular third-person)
springing (participle present)
sprang (past)
sprung (past)
sprung (participle past)
spring (infinitive)

From Middle English springen, from Old English springan (“to spring, leap, bounce, sprout forth, emerge, spread out”), from Proto-West Germanic *springan, from Proto-Germanic *springaną (“to burst forth”), from Proto-Indo-European *spre(n)ǵʰ- (“to move, race, spring”), from *sper- (“to jerk, twitch, snap, shove”).
cognates
* Saterland Frisian springe
* West Frisian springe
* Dutch springen
* German Low German springen
* German springen
* Danish springe
* Swedish springa
* Norwegian springe
* Faroese springa
* Icelandic springa (“to burst, explode”).
Other possible cognates include Lithuanian spreñgti (“to push (in)”), Old Church Slavonic прѧсти (pręsti, “to spin, to stretch”), Latin spargere (“to sprinkle, to scatter”), Ancient Greek σπέρχω (spérkhō, “to hasten”), Sanskrit स्पृहयति (spṛháyati, “to be eager”). Some newer senses derived from the noun.

cog

Deer spring with their hind legs, using their front hooves to steady themselves.

...into helle spring...

c. 1250, Life of St Margaret, Trin. Col. MS B.14.39 (323), f. 22v

Ye kynge... sprange out of his chare and resseyuyd them worshipfully.

1474, William Caxton, transl., Game and Playe of the Chesse, iii, vii, 141:

...the Mountain Stag, that springs
From Height to Height, and bounds along the Plains,
Nor has a Master to restrain his Course...

...out on the lawn there arose such a clatter,
I sprang from my bed to see what was the matter.

1827, Clement Clarke Moore, (A Visit from St. Nicholas):

However, with the dainty volume my quondam friend sprang into fame. At the same time he cast off the chrysalis of a commonplace existence.

1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter I, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:

Thus she advanced; her belly low, almost touching the surface of the ground—a great cat preparing to spring upon its prey.

1912, Edgar Rice Burroughs, chapter 5, in Tarzan of the Apes:

Reporters sprang to the conclusion that the speech would make detailed new commitments...

(figurative, usually with cardinal adverbs) To move with great speed and energy.

To move or burst forth.
To move with great speed and energy.


jump

en-verb

jump (third-person singular simple present jumps, present participle jumping, simple past and past participle jumped)

jumps (present singular third-person)
jumping (participle present)
jumped (participle past)
jumped (past)
jump (infinitive)

From Middle English jumpen (“to walk quickly, run, jump”), probably of Middle Low German or North Germanic origin, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *gumpōną ~ *gumbōną (“to hop, skip, jump”), an iterative verb. The OED suggests an imitative origin. Others have connected it to Ancient Greek ἀθεμβούσα (athemboúsa, “uninhibited”), which is unlikely. Related to jumble. In the sense “to propel oneself” it displaced leap partially and spring largely.
Cognates
Cognate with Middle Dutch gumpen (“to jump”), Low German jumpen (“to jump”), Middle High German gumpen, gampen (“to jump, hop”) (dialectal German gampen, Alemannic German gumpe, Walser dialect kumpu), Old Norse goppa (“to jump”) Danish gumpe (“to jolt”), Swedish gumpa (“to jump”), Danish gimpe (“to move up and down”), Middle English jumpren, jumbren (“to mix, jumble”).

onomatopoeic

imitative

jump down

cause oneself to leave an elevated location and fall

the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog

The player's knight jumped the opponent's bishop.

(intransitive) To employ a move in certain board games where one game piece is moved from one legal position to another passing over the position of another piece.

jauzi egin

employ a move in certain board games in which one piece moves over another


jump

Brill Publishers
hydraulic jump
jump cut
jump discontinuity
jump instruction

onomatopoeic

imitative

قَفْزَة

instance of propelling oneself into the air — see also leap

the knight's jump in chess


zoom

en-verb

zoom (third-person singular simple present zooms, present participle zooming, simple past and past participle zoomed)

zooms (present singular third-person)
zooming (participle present)
zoomed (participle past)
zoomed (past)

→ Dutch: zoomen

→ Finnish: zoomata

→ French: zoomer

→ German: zoomen

→ Italian: zoomare

→ Norwegian Bokmål: zoome

Uncertain. The verb was attested in 1892, noun in 1918 and interjection in 1942. Apparently related to Scots soom (“to buzz, hum”), dialectal English and Scots soom, swoom, sweem (“to spin or twirl at high speed”). Compare also dialectal English sweem (“to swoon, become dizzy or faint”).


creep

en-verb

creep (third-person singular simple present creeps, present participle creeping, simple past crept or creeped or (archaic) crope, past participle crept or creeped or (archaic) cropen)

creeps (present singular third-person)
creeping (participle present)
crept (past)
creeped (past)
crope (archaic past)
crept (participle past)
creeped (participle past)
cropen (archaic participle past)

From Middle English crepen, from Old English crēopan (“to creep, crawl”), from Proto-West Germanic *kreupan, from Proto-Germanic *kreupaną (“to twist, creep”), from Proto-Indo-European *grewbʰ- (“to turn, wind”). Cognate with West Frisian krippe, krûpe, West Frisian crjippa (“to creep”), Low German krepen and krupen, Dutch kruipen (“to creep, crawl”), Middle High German kriefen (“to creep”), Danish krybe (“to creep”), Norwegian krype (“to creep”), Swedish krypa (“to creep, crawl”), Icelandic krjúpa (“to stoop”).
The noun is derived from the verb.
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *grewbʰ-der.
Proto-Germanic *kreupaną
Proto-West Germanic *kreupan
Old English crēopan
Middle English crepen
English creep

etymon

Lizards and snakes crept over the ground.

One evening, while the Rabbit was lying there alone, watching the ants that ran to and fro between his velvet paws in the grass, he saw two strange beings creep out of the tall bracken near him.

1922, Margery Williams, The Velveteen Rabbit:

Reed tips face the dawn
shivering in the autumn wind
At P'u-k'ou the winter tide
has not yet come
Sunrise on the sandy bank
pocked with narrow caves
Pale frogs and dark crabs
creep without end.

1994, “On the Huai River”, in A Drifting Boat: An Anthology of Chinese Zen Poetry, Fredonia, NY: White Pine Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 138:

(intransitive) To move slowly with the abdomen close to the ground.

Old age creeps upon us.

[…]guard his understanding from being imposed on by the willful or at least undesigned sophistry which creeps into most of the books of argument.

1706, John Locke, Of the Conduct of the Understanding, Fallacies:

Paranoia strikes deep / Into your life it will creep / It starts when you're always afraid / Step out of line, the man come and take you away

1966 December, Stephen Stills, “For What It's Worth”performed by Buffalo Springfield:

To move in a stealthy or secret manner; to move imperceptibly or clandestinely; to steal in; to insinuate itself or oneself.

The sight made my flesh creep.

To have a sensation as of insects creeping on the skin of the body; to crawl.

полазват ме тръпки

to have a sensation as of insects creeping on the skin


flee

en-verb

flee (third-person singular simple present flees, present participle fleeing, simple past and past participle fled)

flees (present singular third-person)
fleeing (participle present)
fled (participle past)
fled (past)

From Middle English flen, from Old English flēon, from Proto-Germanic *fleuhaną, from Proto-Indo-European *plewk-, *plew- (“to fly, flow, run”).
Cognate with Dutch vlieden, German fliehen, Icelandic flýja, Swedish fly, Gothic 𐌸𐌻𐌹𐌿𐌷𐌰𐌽 (þliuhan). Within English, related to fly and more distantly to flow.

Ethereal products flee once freely exposed to air.

(intransitive) To disappear quickly; to vanish.


dart

From Middle English dart, from Old French dart, dard (“dart”), from Medieval Latin dardus, from Frankish *darōþu (“dart, spear”), from Proto-Germanic *darōþuz (“dart, spear”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰerh₃- (“to leap, spring”); compare Old High German tart (“javelin, dart”), Old English daroþ, dearod (“javelin, spear, dart”), Swedish dart (“dart, dagger”), Icelandic darraður, darr, dör (“dart, spear”).

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Fighter aircraft also use restricted areas for target shooting at darts towed 1500 feet behind another aircraft.

1988, Michigan Aviation, volumes 21-25, page 62:

(military) A dart-shaped target towed behind an aircraft to train shooters.

Soon as I felt the floor tremor I made a dart for the door of the building.

Six minutes later Cueto went over for his second try after the recalled Mike Tindall found him with a perfectly-timed pass, before Ashton went on another dart, this time down his opposite wing, only for his speculative pass inside to be ruled forward.

2011 September 24, Ben Dirs, “Rugby World Cup 2011: England 67-3 Romania”, in BBC Sport:


dart

en-verb

dart (third-person singular simple present darts, present participle darting, simple past and past participle darted)

darts (present singular third-person)
darting (participle present)
darted (participle past)
darted (past)

From Middle English darten, from the noun (see above).

(transitive) To throw with a sudden effort or thrust; to hurl or launch.

The flying man darted eastward.

(intransitive) To fly or pass swiftly, like a dart; to move rapidly in one direction; to shoot out quickly.


bound

From Middle English bound, bund (preterite) and bounden, bunden, ibunden, ȝebunden (past participle), from Old English bund- and bunden, ġebunden respectively. See bind.

snowbound


bound

bound (third-person singular simple present bounds, present participle bounding, simple past and past participle bounded)

bounds (present singular third-person)
bounding (participle present)
bounded (participle past)
bounded (past)

From Middle English *bounden (attested as bounten), from French bondir (“leap", "bound", originally "make a loud resounding noise”); perhaps from Late Latin bombitāre, present active infinitive of bombitō (“hum, buzz”), frequentative verb, from Latin bombus (“a humming or buzzing”).

der

The rabbit bounded down the lane.

But when I turn away, / Thou, willing me to stay, / Wooest not, nor vainly wranglest; / But, looking fixedly the while, / All my bounding heart entanglest, / In a golden-netted smile; […]

1842, Alfred Tennyson, “Madeleine”, in Poems. […], volume I, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, stanza 3, page 19:

They make love, he hauls her to the bath, washes her, hauls her out and dries her, and twenty minutes later Mary and Magnus are bounding across the little park on the top of Döbling like the happy couple they nearly are, past the sandpits and the climbing frame that Tom is too big for, past the elephant cage where Tom kicks his football, down the hill towards the Restaurant Teheran which is their improbable pub because Magnus so adores the black and white videos of Arab romances they play for you with the sound down while you eat your couscous and drink your Kalterer.

(intransitive) To leap, move by jumping.

to bound a horse

[…] Or if I might buffet for my Loue, or bound my Horſe for her fauours, I could lay on like a Butcher, and fit like a Iack an Apes, neuer off.


tear

en-verb

tear (third-person singular simple present tears, present participle tearing, simple past tore, past participle torn or (now colloquial and nonstandard) tore)

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

From Middle English teren, from Old English teran (“to tear, lacerate”), from Proto-Germanic *teraną (“to tear, tear apart, rip”), from Proto-Indo-European *der- (“to tear, tear apart”).
Cognate with Scots tere, teir, tair (“to rend, lacerate, wound, rip, tear out”), Dutch teren (“to eliminate, efface, live, survive by consumption”), German zehren (“to consume, misuse”), German zerren (“to tug, rip, tear”), Danish tære (“to consume”), Swedish tära (“to fret, consume, deplete, use up”), Icelandic tæra (“to clear, corrode”). Outside Germanic, cognate to Ancient Greek δέρω (dérō, “to skin”), Albanian ther (“to slay, skin, pierce”). Doublet of tire.

cog

He has a torn ligament.

He tore some muscles in a weight-lifting accident.

(transitive) To injure as if by pulling apart.

Tear the coupon out of the newspaper.

[A] surge of muddy water tore him free from his sandy nook and tumbled him down the gully.

(transitive, often with off or out) To remove by tearing, or with sudden great force.

He went tearing down the hill at 90 miles per hour.

The tornado lingered, tearing through town, leaving nothing upright.

He tore into the backlog of complaints.

I've been tearing around in my fucking nightgown. 24/7 Sylvia Plath.

2019, Lana Del Rey, Hope Is a Dangerous Thing:

(intransitive) To move or act with great speed, energy, or violence.

нося се

to move at excessive speed, act with energy


race

en-verb

race (third-person singular simple present races, present participle racing, simple past and past participle raced)

races (present singular third-person)
racing (participle present)
raced (participle past)
raced (past)

From Middle English race, partially from Old English rǣs (“a race, swift or violent running, rush, onset”), from Proto-West Germanic *rās; and partially from Old Norse rás (“a running, race”); both from Proto-Germanic *rēsō (“a course”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁reh₁s- (“to flow, rush”). Cognate with Middle Low German râs (“a strong current”), Dutch ras (“a strong whirling current”), Danish ræs, Norwegian and Swedish ras, Norwegian rås.

cog

As soon as it was time to go home, he raced for the door.

Her heart was racing as she peered into the dimly lit room.

There she goes / There she goes again / Racing through my brain / And I just can't contain / This feeling that remains

1988, Lee Mavers, “There She Goes”, in Sixpence None the Richer, performed by Sixpence None the Richer, published 1997:

Across Japan, technology companies and private investors are racing to install devices that until recently they had little interest in: solar panels. Massive solar parks are popping up as part of a rapid build-up that one developer likened to an "explosion."

2013 June 21, Chico Harlan, “Japan pockets the subsidy …”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 2, page 30:

Racing on, we parallel the M5 doing 95mph, according to the app on my smartphone.

2020 December 2, Paul Bigland, “My weirdest and wackiest Rover yet”, in Rail, page 66:

(intransitive) To move or drive at high speed; to hurry or speed.


stride

en-verb

stride (third-person singular simple present strides, present participle striding, simple past strode, past participle stridden or strode or strid)

strides (present singular third-person)
striding (participle present)
strode (past)
stridden (participle past)
strode (participle past)
strid (participle past)

From Middle English striden, from Old English strīdan (“to get by force, pillage, rob; stride”), from Proto-West Germanic *strīdan, from Proto-Germanic *strīdaną. Cognate with Low German striden (“to fight, to stride”), Dutch strijden (“to fight”), German streiten (“to fight, to quarrel”).

cog

Mars in the middle of the shining shield / Is grav'd, and strides along the liquid field.

1697, Virgil, “The Ninth Book of the Æneis”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:


tread

en-verb

tread (third-person singular simple present treads, present participle treading, simple past trod or tread or treaded, past participle trodden or trod or tread or treaded)

treads (present singular third-person)
treading (participle present)
trod (past)
tread (past)
treaded (past)
trodden (participle past)
trod (participle past)
tread (participle past)
treaded (participle past)

From Middle English treden, from Old English tredan, from Proto-West Germanic *tredan, from Proto-Germanic *trudaną.

fools rush in where angels fear to tread

to tread lightly, to tread gently

to tread carefully, to tread cautiously, to tread warily

(figuratively, with certain adverbs of manner) To proceed, to behave (in a certain manner).


go

go (third-person singular simple present goes, present participle going, simple past went or (obsolete) yode, past participle gone or (nonstandard) went or (substituted in certain contexts) been)

goes (present singular third-person)
going (participle present)
went (past)
yode (obsolete past)
gone (participle past)
went (nonstandard participle past)
been (participle past)
go (infinitive)

From Middle English gon, goon, from Old English gān (“to go”), from Proto-West Germanic *gān, from Proto-Germanic *gāną (“to go”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰeh₁- (“to leave”).
The inherited past tense form yode (compare Old English ēode) was replaced through suppletion in the 15th century by went, from Old English wendan (“to go, depart, wend”).
cognates and related terms
Cognate with Scots gae (“to go”), West Frisian gean (“to go”), Dutch gaan (“to go”), Low German gahn (“to go”), German gehen (“to go”), Swedish, Norwegian and Danish gå (“to go”). Compare also Albanian ngah (“to run, drive, go”), Ancient Greek κιχάνω (kikhánō, “to meet with, arrive at”), Avestan 𐬰𐬀𐬰𐬁𐬨𐬌 (zazāmi), Sanskrit जहाति (jáhāti).

cog

the fucking you get isn't worth the fucking you're going to get

the screwing you get isn't worth the screwing you're going to get

It’s your turn; go.

I've got all vowels. I don't think I can go.

(intransitive) To take a turn, especially in a game.


run

en-verb

run (third-person singular simple present runs, present participle running, simple past ran, past participle run or (nonstandard, colloquial) ran)

runs (present singular third-person)
running (participle present)
ran (past)
run (participle past)
ran (colloquial nonstandard participle past)
run (infinitive)

From Middle English runnen, rennen (“to run”), alteration (due to the past participle runne, runnen,
yronne) of Middle English rinnen (“to run”), from Old English rinnan, iernan (“to run”) and Old Norse rinna (“to run”), both from Proto-Germanic *rinnaną (“to run”) (compare also *rannijaną (“to make run”)), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃reyH- (“to boil, churn”).
Cognate with Scots rin (“to run”), West Frisian rinne (“to walk, march”), Dutch rennen (“to run, race”), Alemannic German ränne (“to run”), German rennen (“to run, race”), rinnen (“to flow”), Rhein, Danish rende (“to run”), Swedish ränna (“to run”), Swedish rinna (“to flow”), Icelandic renna (“to flow”). Non-Germanic cognates include Albanian rend (“to run, run after”). See random.

purjehtia myötätuuleen

to sail a boat with the wind coming from behind

hold with the hare and run with the hounds

run around like a chicken with its head cut off

the course of true love never did run smooth

you can't run with the hare and hunt with the hounds

you don't miss the water till the well runs dry

you never miss the water till the well runs dry

you never miss the water until the well runs dry

I have been running all over the building looking for him.

Sorry, I've got to run; my house is on fire.

Once I ran to you (I ran) / Now I run from you / This tainted love you've given / I give you all a boy could give you

1965, Ed Cobb, “Tainted Love”, in Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret, performed by Soft Cell, published 1981:

(intransitive) To go at a fast pace; to move quickly.

To move swiftly.
To go at a fast pace; to move quickly.


run

rise

antonym(s) of “horizontal part of a step”

rise

antonym(s) of “horizontal distance of a set of stairs”

He broke into a run.

A quick pace, faster than a walk.
(of horses) A fast gallop.

A quick pace, faster than a walk.
A fast gallop.


drag

en-verb

drag (third-person singular simple present drags, present participle dragging, simple past and past participle dragged or (dialectal) drug)

drags (present singular third-person)
dragging (participle present)
dragged (participle past)
dragged (past)
drug (dialectal participle past)
drug (dialectal past)

From Middle English draggen (“to drag”), early Middle English dragen (“to draw, carry”), confluence of Old English dragan (“to drag, draw, draw oneself, go, protract”) and Old Norse draga (“to draw, attract”); both from Proto-Germanic *draganą (“to draw, drag”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰregʰ- (“to draw, drag”).
Verb sense influenced due to association with the noun drag (“that which is hauled or dragged”), related to Low German dragge (“a drag-anchor, grapnel”). Cognate with Danish drægge (“to dredge”), Danish drage (“to draw, attract”), Swedish dragga (“to drag, drag anchor, sweep”), Swedish draga (“to draw, go”), Icelandic draga (“to drag, pull”). Doublet of draw.

cog

look as if one has been dragged through a hedge backwards

Time seems to drag when you're waiting for a bus.

The day drags through, though storms keep out the sun.

1816, Lord Byron, “Canto III”, in Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage. Canto the Third, London: Printed for John Murray, […], →OCLC, stanza XXXII:

a. 1732, John Gay, epistle to a Lady
Long, open panegyric drags at best.

The Irishman is the director’s longest drama, but it never drags.

2019 October 31, A. A. Dowd, “Martin Scorsese and Robert De Niro reunite for one last gripping crime epic, The Irishman”, in AV Club, archived from the original on 2020-08-21:

To proceed heavily, laboriously, or slowly; to advance with weary effort; to go on lingeringly.


file

en-verb

file (third-person singular simple present files, present participle filing, simple past and past participle filed)

files (present singular third-person)
filing (participle present)
filed (participle past)
filed (past)

From French file, from filer (“to spin out, arrange one behind another”), from Latin fīlāre, from filum (“thread”).

The applicants kept filing into the room until it was full.


bolt

bolt (third-person singular simple present bolts, present participle bolting, simple past and past participle bolted)

bolts (present singular third-person)
bolting (participle present)
bolted (participle past)
bolted (past)

From Middle English bolt, from Old English bolt, from Proto-West Germanic *bolt, from Proto-Germanic *bultaz, perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeld- (“to knock, strike”). Compare Lithuanian beldu (“I knock”), baldas (“pole for striking”). Akin to Dutch and West Frisian bout, German Bolz or Bolzen, Danish bolt, Swedish bult, Icelandic bolti.

der

Seeing the snake, the horse bolted.

The actor forgot his line and bolted from the stage.

This Pucke ſeems but a dreaming dolt, / Still vvalking like a ragged Colt, / And oft out of a buſh doth bolt, / Of purpoſe to deceiue vs, / And leading vs makes vs to ſtray.

1627, Michaell Drayton [i.e., Michael Drayton], “Nimphidia. The Court of Fayrie.”, in The Battaile of Agincourt. […], London: […] A[ugustine] M[atthews] for VVilliam Lee, […], published 1631, →OCLC, page 178:

Bradly was embarrassed, detected in the character of a snooper. But he had to come on, short of bolting back in his tracks.

1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 87:

(intransitive) To flee, to depart, to accelerate away suddenly.

I hate when vice can bolt her arguments.

1634 October 9 (first performance), [John Milton], edited by H[enry] Lawes, A Maske Presented at Ludlow Castle, 1634: […] [Comus], London: […] [Augustine Matthews] for Hvmphrey Robinson, […], published 1637, →OCLC; reprinted as Comus: […] (Dodd, Mead & Company’s Facsimile Reprints of Rare Books; Literature Series; no. I), New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1903, →OCLC, page 26, line 760:

To utter precipitately; to blurt or throw out.


dash

From Middle English daschen, dassen, from Danish daske (“to slap, strike”), related to Swedish daska (“to smack, slap, spank”), of obscure origin. Compare German tatschen (“to grope, paw”), Old English dwǣsċan (“to quell, put out, destroy, extinguish”). See also dush.

noncog

When the feds came they did the dash.


dash

en-verb

dash (third-person singular simple present dashes, present participle dashing, simple past and past participle dashed)

dashes (present singular third-person)
dashing (participle present)
dashed (participle past)
dashed (past)

He dashed across the field.

As our train to Paris dashed through the labyrynthine flyovers at Porchefontaine, barely a mile from Versailles, the 75 m.p.h. limit was already almost attained.

1961 November, H. G. Ellison, P. G. Barlow, “Journey through France: Part One”, in Trains Illustrated, page 670:

(intransitive) To run quickly or for a short distance.


volt

Named after Italian physicist Alessandro Volta. For the surname, see Italian Volta.

named-after

International System of Units
International System of Units

potential difference
potential difference

In the International System of Units, the derived unit of electrical potential and electromotive force (voltage); the potential difference across a conductor when a current of one ampere uses one watt of power. Symbol: V


volt

(archaic, equestrianism) A circular movement in which the horse goes round in a small circle.

(archaic, fencing) A sudden movement to avoid a thrust; a parry.


volt

A colour similar to lime often used in Nike products.
volt:


stalk

en-verb

stalk (third-person singular simple present stalks, present participle stalking, simple past and past participle stalked)

stalks (present singular third-person)
stalking (participle present)
stalked (participle past)
stalked (past)

From Middle English stalken, from Old English *stealcian (as in bestealcian (“to move stealthily”), stealcung (“stalking”)), from Proto-West Germanic *stalukōn, from Proto-Germanic *stalukōną (“to stalk, move stealthily”) (compare Dutch stelkeren, stolkeren (“to tip-toe, tread carefully”), Danish stalke (“to high step, stalk”), Norwegian dialectal stalka (“to trudge”)), from *stalkaz, *stelkaz (compare Old English stealc (“steep”), Old Norse stelkr, stjalkr (“knot (bird), red sandpiper”)), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)telg, *(s)tolg- (compare Middle Irish tolg (“strength”), Lithuanian stalgùs (“stiff, defiant, proud”)).
Alternate etymology connects Proto-Germanic *stalkōną to a frequentative form of *stelaną (“to steal”).

m+

[Bertran] stalks close behind her, like a witch's fiend, / Pressing to be employed.

1681, John Dryden, The Spanish Fryar: Or, the Double Discovery. […], London: […] Richard Tonson and Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC, Act IV, page 53:

O ay, stalk on, stalk on, the fowl sits

1598–1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “Much Adoe about Nothing”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene iii]:

(intransitive) To walk slowly and cautiously; to walk in a stealthy, noiseless manner.

The king[…]crept under the shoulder of his led horse;[…]"I must stalk," said he.

1625, Francis [Bacon], Apophthegmes New and Old. […], London: […] Hanna Barret, and Richard Whittaker, […], →OCLC:

One underneath his horse, to get a shoot doth stalk.

(intransitive) To walk behind something, such as a screen, for the purpose of approaching game; to proceed under cover.


lumber

en-verb

lumber (third-person singular simple present lumbers, present participle lumbering, simple past and past participle lumbered)

lumbers (present singular third-person)
lumbering (participle present)
lumbered (participle past)
lumbered (past)

Exact origin unknown. The earliest recorded reference was to heavy, useless objects such as old, discarded furniture. Perhaps from the verb lumber in reference to meaning "awkward to move"; Online Etymological Dictionary thinks this may derive from the same root as lame. Possibly influenced by Lumbar, an obsolete variant of Lombard, the Italian immigrant class known for being pawnbrokers and money-lenders in early England. Compare English lumpish.

...he was only apprized of the arrival of the Monkbarns division by the gee-hupping of the postilion, as the post-chaise lumbered up behind him.

1816, [Walter Scott], The Antiquary. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, →OCLC:

The trooper climbed back on the rock and slid down to take the cadaver lowered to him by Bradly, who lumbered down to assist in carrying it.

1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 221:

2002, Russell Allen, "Incantations of the Apprentice", on Symphony X, The Odyssey.
Through eerie reach of ancient woods / Where lumbering mists arise / I journey for nines moons of the year / To where a land of legend lies

(intransitive) To move clumsily and heavily; to move slowly.


tramp

From Middle English trampen (“to walk heavily”), from Middle Low German trampen (“to stamp”) (trampeln (“to walk with heavy steps”), see trample), or Middle Dutch trampen (“to stamp”), from Proto-West Germanic *trampan (“to step”). Doublet of tremp.
Cognate to Dutch trampen (“to stamp, kick, step”), dialectal German trampen (“to step, walk, tread”), whence commoner German trampeln (“to trample”). Probably related to trap.

der

I got in with the American Fur Company and set out for another tramp to trade with the Indians on the North and South Platte Rivers.

1861, E. J. Guerin, Mountain Charley, page 40:

The starting place for the tramp is reached over a gravel road that begins on Route 3 about a mile south of Gorham spur.

1968, John W. Allen, It Happened in Southern Illinois, page 75:

Speaking of knockout panoramas, if you′re fit then consider doing the taxing, winding, 8km tramp up Mt Roy (1578m; five to six hours return), start 6km from Wanaka on Mt Aspiring Rd.

2005, Paul Smitz, Australia & New Zealand on a Shoestring, Lonely Planet, page 734:

The 1½-hour tramp passes through banksia, gum, and wattle forests, with spectacular views of peaks and valleys.

2006, Marc Llewellyn, Lee Mylne, Frommer′s Australia from $60 a Day, page 186:

(Australia, New Zealand) A long walk, possibly of more than one day, in a scenic or wilderness area.


tramp

en-verb

tramp (third-person singular simple present tramps, present participle tramping, simple past and past participle tramped)

tramps (present singular third-person)
tramping (participle present)
tramped (participle past)
tramped (past)

(transitive) To tread upon forcibly and repeatedly; to trample.

to tramp the country

(transitive) To travel or wander through.

Soak them [blankets, etc.], add to the water in which the linens were washed some soap, and also some of the preparation to produce a strong lather; rub or tramp them, then rinse and dry.

1842, Catherine Esther Beecher, A Treatise on Domestic Economy:

(transitive, Scotland) To cleanse, as clothes, by treading upon them in water.


hop

hop (third-person singular simple present hops, present participle hopping, simple past and past participle hopped)

hops (present singular third-person)
hopping (participle present)
hopped (participle past)
hopped (past)

From Middle English hoppen, from Old English hoppian (“to hop, spring, leap, dance”), from Proto-Germanic *huppōną (“to hop”), from Proto-Indo-European *kewb- (“to bend, bow”). Cognate with Dutch hoppen (“to hop”), German hopfen, hoppen (“to hop”), Swedish hoppa (“to hop, leap, jump”), Icelandic hoppa (“to hop, skip”).

der

The limping smith […]hopping here and there, himself a jest[…]

a. 1701 (date written), John Dryden, The Miscellaneous Works of John Dryden, […], volume IV, London: […] J[acob] and R[ichard] Tonson, […], published 1760, →OCLC:


hop

From Middle English hoppe, from Middle Dutch hoppe, from Old Dutch *hoppo, from Proto-Germanic *huppô. Cognate with German Hopfen and French houblon.

‘You've been shot full of hop and kept under it until you're as crazy as two waltzing mice.’

1940, Raymond Chandler, Farewell, My Lovely, Penguin, published 2010, page 177:

(US, slang) Opium, or some other narcotic drug.


hasten

en-verb

hasten (third-person singular simple present hastens, present participle hastening, simple past and past participle hastened)

hastens (present singular third-person)
hastening (participle present)
hastened (participle past)
hastened (past)

Originally intransitive, from haste + -en (verbal suffix).

(intransitive) To move or act in a quick fashion.


goose-step

An intentionally disparaging alternative name for the "balance step" (German Stechschritt, "cut step") from a fancied resemblance to the waddling of geese.

The balance or goose-step introduced for their practice excites a fever of disgust.

1806 Feb. 11, Robert Thomas Wilson, Journal

A military parade is really a kind of ritual dance, something like a ballet, expressing a certain philosophy of life. The goose-step, for instance, is one of the most horrible sights in the world, far more terrifying than a dive-bomber. It is simply an affirmation of naked power; contained in it, quite consciously and intentionally, is the vision of a boot crashing down on a face. Its ugliness is part of its essence... Why is the goose-step not used in England? There are, heaven knows, plenty of army officers who would be only too glad to introduce some such thing. It is not used because the people in the street would laugh.

1941, George Orwell, The Lion and the Unicorn, Pt. I:

(military, typically derogatory) A style of march in which the legs advance in turn without bending the knee, whether as a low quick march or a rigorous high slow march for ceremonial occasions; the various drills associated with these marches.


walk

From Middle English walk, walke, walc, from Old English *wealc (as in Old English wealcspinl) and ġewealc (“a rolling motion, attack”), from Proto-Germanic *walką. Cognate with Icelandic válk (“a rolling around, a tossing to and fro, trouble, distress”).

cog

The Ministry of Silly Walks is underfunded this year.

A manner of walking; a person's style of walking.


advance

en-verb

advance (third-person singular simple present advances, present participle advancing, simple past and past participle advanced)

advances (present singular third-person)
advancing (participle present)
advanced (participle past)
advanced (past)

Etymology tree
Latin ab
Proto-Indo-European *h₂énti
Proto-Italic *anti
Latin ante
Late Latin ab ante
Latin -ō
Latin *abanteāre
Old French avancierbor.
Middle English avauncen
English advance
From Middle English avauncen, avancen, borrowed from Anglo-Norman avauncier, from Vulgar Latin *abanteāre, from Late Latin ab ante, from Latin ab + ante (“before”). ⟨d⟩ added in analogy to Latin ad- (cf. Middle French advancer). Compare avaunt.

qaldırmaq

to raise to a higher point; to enhance; to raise in rate

edendama

to raise to a higher point, to raise in rate

[S]in and sorrow it were, considering the hardships of this noble and gallant knight, no whit mentioning or weighing those we ourselves have endured, if we were now either to advance or retard the hour of refection beyond the time when the viands are fit to be set before us.

1820 March, [Walter Scott], chapter III, in The Monastery. A Romance. […], volume II, Edinburgh: […] Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; and for Archibald Constable and Co., and John Ballantyne, […], →OCLC, page 95:

To make (something) happen at an earlier time or date; to bring forward, to hasten.

çəkmək

to bring forward; to move towards the front; to make to go on


trap

trap (nominative singular)
trapy (nominative plural)
trapu (genitive singular)
trapů (genitive plural)
trapu (dative singular)
trapům (dative plural)
trap (accusative singular)
trapy (accusative plural)
trape (singular vocative)
trapy (plural vocative)
trapu (locative singular)
trapech (locative plural)
trapem (instrumental singular)
trapy (instrumental plural)


trace

English: trace

Scots: trace

Yola: threesh, treesh

From Old French trace, from tracer, tracier.

Stepping or movement of feet, especially during dancing.


falter

en-verb

falter (third-person singular simple present falters, present participle faltering, simple past and past participle faltered)

falters (present singular third-person)
faltering (participle present)
faltered (participle past)
faltered (past)

From Middle English falteren (“to stagger”), further origin unknown. Possibly from a North Germanic source such as Old Norse faltrask (“be encumbered”). May also be a frequentative of fold, although the change from d to t is unusual.


step

From Middle English steppen, from Old English steppan (“to step, go, proceed, advance”), stepe (“step”), from Proto-West Germanic *stappjan, from Proto-Germanic *stapjaną (“to step”), *stapiz (“step”), from Proto-Indo-European *stebʰ- (“to support, stomp, curse, be amazed”).
Cognate with West Frisian stappe (“to step”), North Frisian stape (“to walk, trudge”), Dutch stappen (“to step, walk”), Walloon steper (“to walk away, leave”), German stapfen (“to trudge, stomp, plod”) and further to Slavic Polish stąpać (“to stomp, stamp, step, tread”), Russian ступать (stupatʹ) and Polish stopień (“step, stair, rung, degree”), Russian степень (stepenʹ). Related to stamp, stomp.

cog

a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step

one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind

The approach of a man is often known by his step.

Warwick passed through one of the wide brick arches and traversed the building with a leisurely step.

1900, Charles W[addell] Chesnutt, chapter I, in The House Behind the Cedars, Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Houghton, Mifflin and Company […], →OCLC:


move

en-verb

move (third-person singular simple present moves, present participle moving, simple past and past participle moved)

moves (present singular third-person)
moving (participle present)
moved (participle past)
moved (past)
move (infinitive)

From Middle English moven, moeven, meven, borrowed from Old Northern French mover, moveir and Old French mouver, moveir (“to move”) (compare modern French mouvoir from Old French movoir), from Latin movēre, present active infinitive of moveō (“move; change, exchange, go in or out, quit”), from Proto-Indo-European *m(y)ewh₁- (“to move, drive”). Cognate with Lithuanian mauti (“to push on, rush”), Sanskrit मीवति (mī́vati, “pushes, presses, moves”), Middle Dutch mouwe (“sleeve”). Largely displaced native English stir, from Middle English stiren, sturien, from Old English styrian.

cog

I decided to move to the country for a more peaceful life.

They moved closer to work to cut down commuting time.

I'm moving next week but I don't have anything packed yet.

He then moved from Nanking to Wuhan and finally to Chungking, but when his health deteriorated, he went to Chiang-chin, a small village near Chungking, for recuperation. There he died on 27 March 1942.

1986, Wen-shun Chi, “Ch’en Tu-hsiu (1879-1942)”, in Ideological Conflicts in Modern China: Democracy and Authoritarianism, published 1992, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 202:

(intransitive) To change residence, for example from one house, town, or state, to another; to go and live at another place. See also move out and move in.


pace

→ Japanese: ペース (pēsu)

From Middle English pase, from Anglo-Norman pas, Old French pas, and their source, Latin passus. Doublet of pas and fathom; compare also pass. Cognate with Spanish pasear.

походка

way of stepping: rate or style of how someone moves with their feet

Any of various gaits of a horse, specifically a 2-beat, lateral gait.


gong

English: gang (see there for further descendants); gong, goung (obsolete)

Scots: gang, gaung, ging

Northeastern: dyang, gyang

Inherited from Old English gang, from Proto-West Germanic *gang, form Proto-Germanic *gangaz. Compare gangen.

(Northern, rare) A gait; the way one walks.


scour

en-verb

scour (third-person singular simple present scours, present participle scouring, simple past and past participle scoured)

scours (present singular third-person)
scouring (participle present)
scoured (participle past)
scoured (past)

From Middle English scǒuren, scure, skoure (“to move quickly; to travel around in search of enemies”), from scǒur (“attack, conflict; pang of emotional suffering”), from Old Norse skýra (“to rush in”) and skúr (“a shower; a shower of missiles”), perhaps influenced by the verb scǒuren: see etymology 1.

Lord. Behind the tuft of Pines I met them, neuer
Saw I men scowre so on their way: I eyed them
Euen to their Ships.

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 II, scene i]:

So four fierce Courſers ſtarting to the Race, / Scow'r thro' the Plain, and lengthen ev'ry Pace: / Nor Reigns, nor Curbs, nor threat'ning Cries they fear, / But force along the trembling Charioteer.

1697, Virgil, “The First Book of the Georgics”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC, page 70, lines 690–693:

This particularly obtains in all Parliamentary affairs. Whether the business in hand be to get a man in, or get a man out, or get a man over, or promote a railway, or jockey a railway, or what else, nothing is understood to be so effectual as scouring nowhere in a violent hurry—in short, as taking cabs and going about.

1864 May – 1865 November, Charles Dickens, Our Mutual Friend. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1865, →OCLC:

(intransitive) To run with speed; to scurry.


gate

English: gate, gait

Scots: gate

From Old Norse gata, from Proto-Germanic *gatwǭ.

The way which one acts; one's mode of behaviour:

(Late Middle English) Gait; the way one walks.


pad

1554, "bundle of straw to lie on", probably from Low German or West Flemish pad (“sole of the foot”), perhaps ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *pent- (“to pass”), which would make it related to both path and find.

unk

probably

Collie ignored him. Reached the finger further. Closer. And closer yet, until — […] Collie yanked his hand back and peered at it like a kid with an interesting new scrape. Then he turned to Steve and held it out. A bead of blood, small and dark and perfect, was forming on the pad of his index finger.

Any cushion-like part of the human body, especially the ends of the fingers.


stamp

en-verb

stamp (third-person singular simple present stamps, present participle stamping, simple past and past participle stamped)

stamps (present singular third-person)
stamping (participle present)
stamped (participle past)
stamped (past)
stamp (infinitive)

From Middle English stampen (“to pound, crush”), from assumed Old English *stampian, variant of Old English stempan (“to crush, pound, pound in mortar, stamp”), from Proto-West Germanic *stampōn, *stampijan, from Proto-Germanic *stampōną, *stampijaną (“to trample, beat”), from Proto-Indo-European *stemb- (“to trample down”). Cognate with Dutch stampen (“to stamp, pitch”), German stampfen (“to stamp”), Danish stampe (“to stamp”), Swedish stampa (“to stomp”), Occitan estampar, Polish stąpać (“to step, treat”). See also stomp, step. Marks indicating that postage had been paid were originally made by stamping the item to be mailed; when affixed pieces of paper were introduced for this purpose, the term “stamp” was transferred to cover this new form.

der

The toddler screamed and stamped, but still got no candy.

(intransitive) To step quickly and heavily, once or repeatedly.

The crowd cheered and stamped their feet in appreciation.

The native peoples with vocal cords located in the respiratory organs initiate simple communication with slimes by stamping their feet.

2020, Salt Seno, translated by Amanda Haley, Heterogenia Linguistico: An Introduction to Interspecies Linguistics, page 40:

(transitive) To move (the foot or feet) quickly and heavily, once or repeatedly.

trampe

to move (the foot or feet) quickly and heavily

This machine stamps the metal cover with a design.

This machine stamps the design into the metal cover.

(transitive) To mark by pressing quickly and heavily.


gad

That's the trouble — it was too easy for you — you got reckless — thought you could turn me inside out, and chuck me in the gutter like an empty purse. But, by gad, that ain't playing fair: that's dodging the rules of the game.

1905, Edith Wharton, chapter 13, in The House of Mirth:

goodness gracious
goodness gracious#English

for goodness' sake
for goodness' sake#English

An exclamation roughly equivalent to by God, goodness gracious, for goodness' sake.


gad

en-verb

gad (third-person singular simple present gads, present participle gadding, simple past and past participle gadded)

gads (present singular third-person)
gadding (participle present)
gadded (participle past)
gadded (past)

From Middle English gadden (“to hurry, to rush about”).

скитам се

to move about at random with seemingly little purpose

This, I suppose, is the virgin who abideth still in the house with you. She is not given, I hope, to gadding overmuch, nor to vain and foolish decorations of her person with ear-rings and finger-rings, and crisping-pins: for such are unprofitable, yea, abominable.

So when he saw King Arthur he said: "Thou knave! Wherefore didst thou quit thy work to go a-gadding?"

1903, Howard Pyle, The Story of King Arthur and His Knights, Part III, Chapter Fourth, page 123

But there is no telling the sacrament, seldom if in any case revealed to the gadding world, wherever under circumstances at all akin to those here attempted to be set forth, two of great Nature's nobler order embrace.

1888–1891, Herman Melville, “[Billy Budd, Foretopman.] Chapter [HTTP://GUTENBERG.NET.AU/EBOOKS06/0608511H.HTML 19].”, in Billy Budd and Other Stories, London: John Lehmann, published 1951, →OCLC:

If you are on the board of governors of a school and have contracted to supply an orator for the great day of the year, you can be forgiven for feeling a trifle jumpy when you learn that the silver-tongued one has gadded off to the metropolis, leaving no word as to when he will be returning, if ever.

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

(intransitive) To move from one location to another in an apparently random and frivolous manner.

(of cattle) To run with the tail in the air, bent over the back, usually in an attempt to escape the warble fly.


gad

From Middle English gade (“a fool, simpleton, rascal, scoundrel; bastard”), from Old English *gada (“fellow, companion, comrade, associate”), from Proto-West Germanic *gadō, from Proto-Germanic *gadô, *gagadô (“companion, associate”), related to Proto-West Germanic *gaduling (“kinsman”). Cognate with Dutch gade (“spouse”), German Gatte (“male spouse, husband”). See also gadling.

der

Get over here, ye good-for-nothing gadǃ

Ye greedy ged, ye have taken the very breath out o' me.

1913, George Gordon, The Auld Clay Biggin:

(Northern England, Scotland, derogatory) A greedy and/or stupid person.


gehen

de-verb

gehen (class 7 strong, third-person singular present geht, past tense ging, past participle gegangen, auxiliary sein)

geht (present singular third-person)
ging (past)
gegangen (participle past)
sein (auxiliary)
sein (auxiliary)
gehen (infinitive)
gehend (participle present)
gegangen (participle past)
gehe (first-person indicative present singular)
gehen (first-person indicative plural present)
gehe (first-person singular subjunctive subjunctive-i)
gehen (first-person plural subjunctive subjunctive-i)
gehst (indicative present second-person singular)
geht (indicative plural present second-person)
gehest (second-person singular subjunctive subjunctive-i)
gehet (plural second-person subjunctive subjunctive-i)
geht (indicative present singular third-person)
gehen (indicative plural present third-person)
gehe (singular subjunctive subjunctive-i third-person)
gehen (plural subjunctive subjunctive-i third-person)
ging (first-person indicative preterite singular)
gingen (first-person indicative plural preterite)
ginge (first-person singular subjunctive subjunctive-ii)
gingen (first-person plural subjunctive subjunctive-ii)
gingst (indicative preterite second-person singular)
gingt (indicative plural preterite second-person)
gingest (second-person singular subjunctive subjunctive-ii)
gingst (second-person singular subjunctive subjunctive-ii)
ginget (plural second-person subjunctive subjunctive-ii)
gingt (plural second-person subjunctive subjunctive-ii)
ging (indicative preterite singular third-person)
gingen (indicative plural preterite third-person)
ginge (singular subjunctive subjunctive-ii third-person)
gingen (plural subjunctive subjunctive-ii third-person)
geh (imperative second-person singular)
gehe (imperative second-person singular)
geht (imperative plural second-person)
sein (auxiliary)
bin gegangen (first-person indicative multiword-construction perfect singular)
sind gegangen (first-person indicative multiword-construction perfect plural)
sei gegangen (first-person multiword-construction perfect singular subjunctive)
seien gegangen (first-person multiword-construction perfect plural subjunctive)
bist gegangen (indicative multiword-construction perfect second-person singular)
seid gegangen (indicative multiword-construction perfect plural second-person)
seist gegangen (multiword-construction perfect second-person singular subjunctive)
seiest gegangen (multiword-construction perfect second-person singular subjunctive)
seiet gegangen (multiword-construction perfect plural second-person subjunctive)
ist gegangen (indicative multiword-construction perfect singular third-person)
sind gegangen (indicative multiword-construction perfect plural third-person)
sei gegangen (multiword-construction perfect singular subjunctive third-person)
seien gegangen (multiword-construction perfect plural subjunctive third-person)
war gegangen (first-person indicative multiword-construction pluperfect singular)
waren gegangen (first-person indicative multiword-construction pluperfect plural)
wäre gegangen (first-person multiword-construction pluperfect singular subjunctive)
wären gegangen (first-person multiword-construction pluperfect plural subjunctive)
warst gegangen (indicative multiword-construction pluperfect second-person singular)
wart gegangen (indicative multiword-construction pluperfect plural second-person)
wärst gegangen (multiword-construction pluperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
wärest gegangen (multiword-construction pluperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
wärt gegangen (multiword-construction pluperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
wäret gegangen (multiword-construction pluperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
war gegangen (indicative multiword-construction pluperfect singular third-person)
waren gegangen (indicative multiword-construction pluperfect plural third-person)
wäre gegangen (multiword-construction pluperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
wären gegangen (multiword-construction pluperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
gehen werden (future future-i infinitive multiword-construction)
werde gehen (first-person future future-i multiword-construction singular subjunctive subjunctive-i)
werden gehen (first-person future future-i multiword-construction plural subjunctive subjunctive-i)
werdest gehen (future future-i multiword-construction second-person singular subjunctive subjunctive-i)
werdet gehen (future future-i multiword-construction plural second-person subjunctive subjunctive-i)
werde gehen (future future-i multiword-construction singular subjunctive subjunctive-i third-person)
werden gehen (future future-i multiword-construction plural subjunctive subjunctive-i third-person)
werde gehen (first-person future future-i indicative multiword-construction singular)
werden gehen (first-person future future-i indicative multiword-construction plural)
würde gehen (first-person future future-i multiword-construction singular subjunctive subjunctive-ii)
würden gehen (first-person future future-i multiword-construction plural subjunctive subjunctive-ii)
wirst gehen (future future-i indicative multiword-construction second-person singular)
werdet gehen (future future-i indicative multiword-construction plural second-person)
würdest gehen (future future-i multiword-construction second-person singular subjunctive subjunctive-ii)
würdet gehen (future future-i multiword-construction plural second-person subjunctive subjunctive-ii)
wird gehen (future future-i indicative multiword-construction singular third-person)
werden gehen (future future-i indicative multiword-construction plural third-person)
würde gehen (future future-i multiword-construction singular subjunctive subjunctive-ii third-person)
würden gehen (future future-i multiword-construction plural subjunctive subjunctive-ii third-person)
gegangen sein werden (future future-ii infinitive multiword-construction)
werde gegangen sein (first-person future future-ii multiword-construction singular subjunctive subjunctive-i)
werden gegangen sein (first-person future future-ii multiword-construction plural subjunctive subjunctive-i)
werdest gegangen sein (future future-ii multiword-construction second-person singular subjunctive subjunctive-i)
werdet gegangen sein (future future-ii multiword-construction plural second-person subjunctive subjunctive-i)
werde gegangen sein (future future-ii multiword-construction singular subjunctive subjunctive-i third-person)
werden gegangen sein (future future-ii multiword-construction plural subjunctive subjunctive-i third-person)
werde gegangen sein (first-person future future-ii indicative multiword-construction singular)
werden gegangen sein (first-person future future-ii indicative multiword-construction plural)
würde gegangen sein (first-person future future-ii multiword-construction singular subjunctive subjunctive-ii)
würden gegangen sein (first-person future future-ii multiword-construction plural subjunctive subjunctive-ii)
wirst gegangen sein (future future-ii indicative multiword-construction second-person singular)
werdet gegangen sein (future future-ii indicative multiword-construction plural second-person)
würdest gegangen sein (future future-ii multiword-construction second-person singular subjunctive subjunctive-ii)
würdet gegangen sein (future future-ii multiword-construction plural second-person subjunctive subjunctive-ii)
wird gegangen sein (future future-ii indicative multiword-construction singular third-person)
werden gegangen sein (future future-ii indicative multiword-construction plural third-person)
würde gegangen sein (future future-ii multiword-construction singular subjunctive subjunctive-ii third-person)
würden gegangen sein (future future-ii multiword-construction plural subjunctive subjunctive-ii third-person)

From Middle High German gān, gēn, from Old High German gān, gēn, from Proto-West Germanic *gān, from Proto-Germanic *gāną, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰeh₁- (“to leave”).
Cognate with Dutch gaan, Low German gan, gahn, English go, Swedish and Danish gå.
The form gēn instead of gān is of Bavarian origin, but many dialects of Central and Low German have -e- (from earlier -ei-) or ei in the 2nd and 3rd person singular present, in keeping with the Proto-Germanic irregular conjugation. The -h- was introduced into the spelling by analogy with sehen, in which it had become mute but was retained in spelling.

gehn

dated in formal prose, but still common informally and poetically

Lass uns beide mit dem Hund gehen.

Ich sah die Kinder über die Straße gehen.

I saw the children walk/go across the street.

Mein Baby beginnt schon zu gehen.

Wann geht dein Zug?

(intransitive, colloquial) to leave, to take off (aeroplane, train)

Das ging für eine halbe Stunde oder so.

Die Sitzung geht bis ein Uhr.

The session is scheduled until one o’clock.

(colloquial, intransitive) to last, to go for, to go on, to be in progress

Wenn es euch beiden nicht passt, was ich tue und wie ich bin, dann geht doch euer Wege! Ich halte euch nicht! Geht, wohin ihr wollt!

2019 [1979], Michael Ende, Die unendliche Geschichte, Stuttgart, Germany: Thienemann-Esslinger Verlag GmbH, →ISBN:

If you both don't agree with what I do and who I am, then just go your own way! I'm not stopping you! Go wherever you want!

Wir gehen unserer Wege, hinab ins Schaufelstal. Manchmal halten wir inne, schauen uns um, schweigen. Und dann reden wir.

2022, Gunnar Herbst, “„Ich vermisse die Bühne nicht“ – Wie Manuel Andrack vom Harald-Schmidt-Sidekick zum Genusswanderer wurde”, in stern:

We make our way down into the Schaufelstal [Shovel Valley]. Sometimes we pause, looking around silently. And then we talk.

Wir verabschiedeten uns voneinander und gingen unserer Wege.

2018, Florian Dexheimer, transl., Vier Jahre in der Stonewall Brigade: Ein Soldat der 33rd Virginia Infantry erinnert sich an den Amerikanischen Bürgerkrieg, Germany: Kirchheimbolanden: Florian Dexheimer, translation of Four Years in the Stonewall Brigade by John Overton Casler, →ISBN:

We said goodbye to each other and went our separate ways.

to go one's way, to make one's way (of a path, destination), to go separate ways [with genitive and Weg]


amble

From Middle English amblen, from Old French ambler (“walk as a horse does”), from Old Occitan amblar, from Latin ambulō (“I walk”). Doublet of ambulate.

An easy gait, especially that of a horse.

раван

an easy gait, especially that of a horse


gait

From Middle English gate (“way”), from Old Norse gata (“road”), from Proto-Germanic *gatwǭ. Compare gate.

Carrying a heavy suitcase, he had a lopsided gait.

Manner of walking or stepping; bearing or carriage while moving on legs.

(equestrianism) One of the different ways in which a horse can move, either naturally or as a result of training.


lope

en-verb

lope (third-person singular simple present lopes, present participle loping, simple past and past participle loped)

lopes (present singular third-person)
loping (participle present)
loped (participle past)
loped (past)

From Middle English lopen, from Old Norse hlaupa (“to leap, jump”). See leap. Cognate with German laufen (“walk, run”), Danish løbe (“run”), Dutch lopen (“walk, run”), Norwegian løpe (“run”). Doublet of leap.

And as he cam by a ryver, in hys woodnes he wolde have made hys horse to have lopyn over the watir; and the horse fayled footyng and felle in the ryver

1470–1485 (date produced), Thomas Malory, “Capitulum xxxv”, in [Le Morte Darthur], book IX, [London: […] by William Caxton], published 31 July 1485, →OCLC; republished as H[einrich] Oskar Sommer, editor, Le Morte Darthur […], London: David Nutt, […], 1889, →OCLC:

1621-22, Thomas Middleton et al, The Spanish Gypsy
he that lopes on the ropes


troop

troop (third-person singular simple present troops, present participle trooping, simple past and past participle trooped)

troops (present singular third-person)
trooping (participle present)
trooped (participle past)
trooped (past)

Attested in English since 1545, from French troupe (back-formation of troupeau, diminutive of Medieval Latin troppus "flock") and Middle French trouppe (from Old French trope (“band, company, troop”)), both of Germanic origin from Frankish *þorp (“assembly, gathering”), from Proto-Germanic *þurpą (“village, land, estate”), from Proto-Indo-European *treb- (“dwelling, settlement”).
Doublet of troupe, and possibly also of thorp and dorp. Cognate with German Dorf (“village”).

der

Then everybody once more knelt, and soon the blessing was pronounced. The choir and the clergy trooped out slowly, […], down the nave to the western door. […] At a seemingly immense distance the surpliced group stopped to say the last prayer.

1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter V, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:

To move in numbers; to come or gather in crowds or troops.


gimp

Attested in US slang since the 1920s. Maybe influenced by, or cognate with limp.

She walks with a gimp in one leg, which is why she is called Madame La Gimp...

...Flat-wheel Walter...who is called by this name because he walks with a gimp on one side...


drift

en-noun

drift (countable and uncountable, plural drifts)

From Middle English drift, dryft (“act of driving, drove, shower of rain or snow, impulse”), from Old English *drift (“drift”), from Proto-Germanic *driftiz (“drift”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰreybʰ- (“to drive, push”). Equivalent to drive + -t; cognate with North Frisian drift (“drift”), Saterland Frisian Drift (“current, flow, stream, drift”), Dutch drift (“drift, passion, urge”), German Drift (“drift”) and Trift (“drove, pasture”), Danish drift (“impulse, instinct”), Swedish drift (“impulse, instinct”), Icelandic drift (“drift, snow-drift”).

cog

The angle which the line of a ship's motion makes with the meridian, in drifting.

дрейф

The distance a vessel is carried off from her desired course by the wind, currents, or other causes.

дрейф

distance to which a vessel is carried off from her desired course by the wind, currents, or other causes

The place in a deep-waisted vessel where the sheer is raised and the rail is cut off, and usually terminated with a scroll, or driftpiece.

kupu

The distance between the two blocks of a tackle.

väkipyörien etäisyys

The difference between the size of a bolt and the hole into which it is driven, or between the circumference of a hoop and that of the mast on which it is to be driven.


proceed

en-verb

proceed (third-person singular simple present proceeds, present participle proceeding, simple past and past participle proceeded)

proceeds (present singular third-person)
proceeding (participle present)
proceeded (participle past)
proceeded (past)

From Middle English proceden, from Old French proceder, from Latin prōcēdō (“I go forth, go forward, advance”), from prō (“forth”) + cēdō (“I go”); see cede.

der

to proceed on a journey

Having completed their task, Fireman Page telephoned from a lineside box to the next signal cabin, briefly reported the incident and said that, as no high explosive had dropped and the track was safe, they proposed proceeding "at caution".

1944 July and August, “Top Link Drivers: XXI—Driver H. Blunt, L.N.E.R.”, in Railway Magazine, page 226:

[...] and on the Saturday heavy seas pounded the W.R. on its exposed coastal stretch between Dawlish and Teignmouth, loosening the ballast and forcing trains to proceed with extreme caution.

1960 December, “Talking of Trains: The railways and the Devon floods”, in Trains Illustrated, page 709:

(intransitive) To move, pass, or go forward or onward; to advance; to carry on


meander

en-verb

meander (third-person singular simple present meanders, present participle meandering, simple past and past participle meandered)

meanders (present singular third-person)
meandering (participle present)
meandered (participle past)
meandered (past)

From Latin Maeander, from Ancient Greek Μαίανδρος (Maíandros) – a river in Asia Minor (present day Turkey) known for its winding course (modern Turkish Menderes).

The stream meandered through the valley.

Instead of a rivulet meandering downwards, there was a foaming brown torrent racing over the ledge, carrying down great loose stones with it and falling with a loud roar far down into the unseen chasm below.

1881, Edwin Lester Arnold, On the Indian Hills:

I'd forgotten how scenic parts of the line are - the railway crosses a host of streams while meandering through meadows or skirting woodland.

2020 November 18, Paul Bigland, “New infrastructure and new rolling stock”, in Rail, page 51:

(intransitive) To wind or turn in a course or passage


scoot

scoot (third-person singular simple present scoots, present participle scooting, simple past and past participle scooted)

scoots (present singular third-person)
scooting (participle present)
scooted (participle past)
scooted (past)

Of uncertain origin. Perhaps from Old Norse skjóta (“to shoot”), or perhaps related to Middle English scottlynge (“moving one's feet quickly, scampering”, literally “scuttling”), see scuddle, scuttle.

cog

The dog was scooting all over our new carpet.

If you ever see your dog scooting its hind end along the floor, chances are that anal sac irritation or impaction exists.

1990, Chris C. Pinney, Guide to Home Pet Grooming, page 44:

What if my cat is biting its tail, scooting or rubbing its bottom on the ground?

1997, J. M. Evans, Kay White, Catopedia:

The old wives tale is that a dog that scoots on its rear has worms, but that's rarely the case. Dogs that scoot, lick, or chew underneath their tails usually have anal gland issues.

2008, Sandy Blackburn, The Everything Dog Grooming Book: All You Need to Help Your Pet Look and Feel Great!, page 62:

(of an animal) To move with the forelegs while sitting, so that the floor rubs against its rear end.

raahata takapuoltaan pitkin jotakin

(of an animal) to move with the forelegs while sitting


limp

From Middle English limpen (“to fall short”), from Old English limpan, from Proto-West Germanic *limpan, from Proto-Germanic *limpaną (“to hang down”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)lemb-, *(s)lembʰ- (“to hang loosely, hang limply”).
Cognate with Low German lumpen (“to limp”), Middle High German limpfen (“to hobble, limp”), dialectal German lampen (“to hang down loosely”), Icelandic limpa (“limpness, weakness”).

cog

She walks with a limp.


stagger

From Middle English stageren, stakeren, from Old Norse stakra (“to push, stagger”). Cognate with dialectal Danish stagre.

7 October 2012, Paolo Bandini in The Guardian, Denver Broncos 21 New England Patriots 31 - as it happened
Put down the rosary beads folks, I believe hell may just have frozen over. Peyton Manning drops back, sees nothing open and runs for a first down. If you can call that running. More like the stagger of a wounded rhino. Did the job, though

Afy slowly gathered in the sense of the words. She gasped twice, as if her breath had gone, and then, with a stagger and a shiver, fell heavily to the ground.

1861, Ellen Wood, chapter 39, in East Lynne:

the stagger of a drunken man

And when old Fezziwig and Mrs. Fezziwig had gone all through the dance; advance and retire; both hands to your partner, bow and courtesy, corkscrew, thread the needle, and back again to your place; Fezziwig "cut"—cut so deftly that he appeared to wink with his legs, and came upon his feet again without a stagger.

1843 December 19, Charles Dickens, “(please specify the page number)”, in A Christmas Carol. In Prose. Being a Ghost Story of Christmas, London: Chapman & Hall, […], →OCLC:

An unsteady movement of the body in walking or standing as if one were about to fall; a reeling motion.

تَرَنُّح

an unsteady movement of the body in walking or standing

parasitic staggers

apoplectic or sleepy staggers

(veterinary medicine) A disease of horses and other animals, attended by reeling, unsteady gait or sudden falling.


sneak

Possibly from Middle English sniken (“to creep, crawl”), from Old English snīcan (“to creep, crawl”), from Proto-West Germanic *snīkan, from Proto-Germanic *snīkaną (“to creep, crawl”), which is related to the root of snake. Compare Danish snige (“to sneak”), Swedish snika (“to sneak, hanker after”), Icelandic sníkja (“to sneak, hanker after”). Possibly related to snitch.

cog

The company gave us a sneak look at their new electronic devices.

In advance; before release to the general public.


stroll

Borrowed from German strollen, a variant of Alemannic German strolchen, from Strolch (“vagabond; rascal”).

A wandering on foot; an idle and leisurely walk; a ramble; a saunter.


stroll

en-verb

stroll (third-person singular simple present strolls, present participle strolling, simple past and past participle strolled)

strolls (present singular third-person)
strolling (participle present)
strolled (participle past)
strolled (past)

In Ancient Times, as Story tells, / The Saints would often leave their Cells, / And ſtrole about, but hide their Quality, / To try good Peoples Hoſpitality.

1708, [Jonathan Swift], “The Metamorphosis of Baucis and Philemon, Burlesqu’d; from the 8th Book of Ovid”, in Baucis and Philemon; a Poem. […], London: […] H. Hills, […], published 1709, →OCLC, page 3:

The turmoil went on—no rest, no peace. [...] It was nearly eleven o'clock now, and he strolled out again. In the little fair created by the costers' barrows the evening only seemed beginning; and the naphtha flares made one's eyes ache, the men's voices grated harshly, and the girls' faces saddened one.

1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC, pages 87–88:

Look around you, all you see are sympathetic eyes
Stroll around the grounds until you feel at home

1968 April 5, Paul Simon, “Mrs. Robinson”, in Bookends, performed by Simon & Garfunkel:

To wander on foot; to ramble idly or leisurely; to rove.

"Nammers?" She'd told him before of some Vietnamese gang pressuring her to stroll for them. / "Don't even ask. You don't want to know."

(intransitive, slang) To walk the streets as a prostitute.


wander

wander (third-person singular simple present wanders, present participle wandering, simple past and past participle wandered)

wanders (present singular third-person)
wandering (participle present)
wandered (participle past)
wandered (past)

From Middle English wandren, wandrien, from Old English wandrian (“to wander, roam, fly around, hover; change; stray, err”), from Proto-West Germanic *wandarōn (“to wander”), from *wandōn (“to turn, change”) + *-rōn (frequentative suffix). Cognate with Scots wander (“to wander”), German wandern (“to wander, roam, hike, migrate”), Dutch wandelen (“to wander, roam, hike, migrate”), Danish vandre (“to wander, roam, hike, migrate”), Swedish vandra (“to wander, hike”).

cog

to wander over the fields

They wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Hebrews 11:37:

“A tight little craft,” was Austin’s invariable comment on the matron;[…]. ¶ Near her wandered her husband, orientally bland, invariably affable, and from time to time squinting sideways, as usual, in the ever-renewed expectation that he might catch a glimpse of his stiff, retroussé moustache.

1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter IX, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:

There is an hour or two, after the passengers have embarked, which is disquieting and fussy.[…]Stewards, carrying cabin trunks, swarm in the corridors. Passengers wander restlessly about or hurry, with futile energy, from place to place.

1915, G[eorge] A. Birmingham [pseudonym; James Owen Hannay], chapter I, in Gossamer, New York, N.Y.: George H. Doran Company, →OCLC:

(intransitive) To move without purpose or specified destination; often in search of livelihood.

(intransitive) To go somewhere indirectly or at varying speeds; to move in a curved path.

бродя

to go somewhere indirectly or at varying speeds; to move in a curved path


paddle

en-verb

paddle (third-person singular simple present paddles, present participle paddling, simple past and past participle paddled)

paddles (present singular third-person)
paddling (participle present)
paddled (participle past)
paddled (past)

Partly from the verb paddle ("to splash, dabble"; see below) and partly from Middle English padell (“small spade”).
Middle English padell is from Medieval Latin padela, itself of uncertain origin: perhaps an alteration of Middle English *spaddle (see also spaddle), a diminutive of spade; or from Latin patella (“pan, plate”), the diminutive of patina, or a merger of the two. Compare Ancient Greek πηδάλιον (pēdálion, “rudder, steering oar”), derived from πηδός (pēdós, “the blade of an oar; an oar”).


paddle

Recorded since 1530, probably cognate with Low German paddeln (“to tramp about”), frequentative form of padjen (“to tramp, run in short steps”), from pad (also in Dutch dialects). Compare also Saterland Frisian paddelje (“to paddle”).

[…] little feet paddling round and about a man's bed and following wherever he went.

1889, J. H. Riddell, A Terrible Vengeance:


pelt

en-verb

pelt (third-person singular simple present pelts, present participle pelting, simple past and past participle pelted)

pelts (present singular third-person)
pelting (participle present)
pelted (participle past)
pelted (past)
pelt (infinitive)

The verb is derived from Late Middle English pelt, pelte; further origin uncertain, probably a variant of Late Middle English pilten (“to push, thrust; to strike; to cast down, humble; to incite, induce; to place, put; to extend, reach forward with”) [and other forms], possibly from Old English *pyltan, from Late Latin *pultiare, from Latin pultāre (“to beat, knock, strike”), the frequentative of pellere, the present active infinitive of pellō (“to drive, impel, propel, push; to hurl; to banish, eject, expel, thrust out; to beat, strike; to set in motion”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *pel- (“to beat; to drive, push”).
The noun is derived from the verb.

nb...

pilt, pilte, pilton, (chiefly Southwest England, Southwest Midlands) pult, pulte

heitellä päin

to bombard someone or something with missiles continuously

[S]he [the church] holdeth the veritie of his bodie [i.e., Jesus's body in the Eucharist]: ſhe pelteth not vvith God, denying this to be his body, bicauſe ſhe is cōmaunded to do this in remembrãce of hym: but ſhe doth beſt remembre hym, vvhen ſhe hath the bodie vvhich ſuffered, before her.

1564 December 1 (Gregorian calendar), Iohn Rastell [i.e., John Rastell], “[Of Corpus Christi Daye and of the Seruice of that Holye Daye]”, in A Confutation of a Sermon, Pronoũced by M. Iuell, at Paules Crosse, the Second Sondaie before Easter (which Catholikes Doe Call Passion Sondaie) Anno Dñi .M.D.LX., Antwerp: […] Ægidius Diest, →OCLC, folio 84, verso:

Another ſmotherd, ſeemes to pelt and ſvveare, / And in their rage ſuch ſignes of rage they beare, […]

1594, William Shakespeare, Lucrece (First Quarto), London: […] Richard Field, for Iohn Harrison, […], →OCLC, signature K2, verso:

But if they vvho diſſent in matters not eſſential to Belief, vvhile the common Adverſary is in the Field, ſhall ſtand jarring and pelting at one another, they vvill ſoon be routed and ſubdued.

1673, John Milton, Of True Religion, Heresie, Schism, Toleration, and What Best Means may be Us’d against the Growth of Popery. […]; republished in A Complete Collection of the Historical, Political, and Miscellaneous Works of John Milton, […], volume II, Amsterdam [actually London: s.n.], 1698, →OCLC, page 811:

(obsolete) To throw out harsh words; to show anger.


trip

en-verb

trip (third-person singular simple present trips, present participle tripping, simple past and past participle tripped)

trips (present singular third-person)
tripping (participle present)
tripped (participle past)
tripped (past)

From Middle English trippen (“tread or step lightly and nimbly, skip, dance”), perhaps from Old French triper (“to hop or dance around, strike with the feet”), from a Frankish source; or alternatively from Middle Dutch trippen (“to skip, trip, hop, stamp, trample”) (> Modern Dutch trippelen (“to toddle, patter, trip”)). Akin to Middle Low German trippen ( > Danish trippe (“to trip”), Swedish trippa (“to mince, trip”)), West Frisian tripje (“to toddle, trip”), German trippeln (“to scurry”), Old English treppan (“to trample, tread”). Related also to trap, tramp.

cog

Come, and trip it, as ye go, / On the light fantastic toe.

a. 1645, John Milton, “L’Allegro”, in Poems of Mr. John Milton, […], London: […] Ruth Raworth for Humphrey Mosely, […], published 1646, →OCLC:

She bounded by, and tripped so light / They had not time to take a steady sight.

1687, [John Dryden], “(please specify the page number)”, in The Hind and the Panther. A Poem, in Three Parts, 2nd edition, London: […] Jacob Tonson […], →OCLC:

A bright beautiful face glanced out at the window, and vanished—a light footstep was heard—and Mary came tripping forth to meet us.

1819 June 23, Geoffrey Crayon [pseudonym; Washington Irving], “The Wife”, in The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent., number I, New York, N.Y.: […] C[ornelius] S. Van Winkle, […], →OCLC, page 53:

(intransitive, dated) To move with light, quick steps; to walk or move lightly; to skip.


mince

en-noun

mince (countable and uncountable, plural minces)

LL-Q1860 (eng)-I learned some phrases-mince.wav

From Middle English mincen, minsen; partly from Old English minsian, ġeminsian (“to make less, make smaller, diminish”), from Proto-West Germanic *minnisōn, from Proto-Germanic *minnisōną (“to make less”); partly from Old French mincer, mincier (“to cut into small pieces”), from mince (“slender, slight, puny”), from Frankish *minsto, *minnisto, superlative of *min, *minn (“small, less”), from Proto-Germanic *minniz (“less”); both from Proto-Indo-European *mey- (“small, little”). Cognate with Old Saxon minsōn (“to make less, make smaller”), Old Dutch minson (“to make smaller”), Gothic 𐌼𐌹𐌽𐌶𐌽𐌰𐌽 (minznan, “to become less, diminish”), Swedish minska (“to reduce, lessen”), Gothic 𐌼𐌹𐌽𐍃 (mins, “slender, slight”). More at min.

cog

A wiry little girl in a starched, lemon-colored party dress, she sassed along with a grownup mince, one hand on her hip, the other supporting a spinsterish umbrella.

1949, Truman Capote, “Children on their Birthdays”, in A Tree of Night and Other Stories, page 36:

She was just the same; she had a light way of walking and she always wore flat heels so she didn't have that mince like most girls.

1963, John Fowles, The Collector, page 15:

His skin was china pale, he walked with a slight mince, and his silver mustache was always trimmed sharp; it was his custom to send a bouquet of pink carnations to the wives of men with whom he dined.

2010, Tom Zoellner, Uranium: War, Energy, and the Rock That Shaped the World:

(countable) An affected (often dainty or short and precise) gait.


hike

From English dialectal hyke (“to walk vigorously”), probably a Northern form of hitch, from Middle English hytchen, hichen, icchen (“to move, jerk, stir”). Cognate with Scots hyke (“to move with a jerk”), dialectal German hicken (“to hobble, walk with a limp”), Danish hinke (“to hop”). More at hick.

Let's go; get moving. A command to a dog sled team, given by a musher.


slog

en-noun

slog (countable and uncountable, plural slogs)

Probably a variation of slug (“to hit very hard”) or slough.
Possibly related to slag, seen in the North Germanic languages, in association with the third verb and second noun definition.

(countable, uncountable, chiefly British, Australia and Canada) A long, tedious walk or march.

It is as if Mr. Faulks had bled his own prose white, draining it of emotion in order to capture the endless enervating slog of war.

1996 February 11, Michael Gorra, “Tunnel Vision”, in The New York Times:

England's experimental line-up will have realised early on that this would be a long, hard slog against the multi-talented Brazilians with great strength in their starting line-up and on the bench.

2017 November 14, Phil McNulty, “England 0 – 0 Brazil”, in BBC Sport:

There, despite the long slog of the pandemic and all the distracting dramas at headquarters, the schools themselves have mostly kept it together.

2022 February 12, Danny Westneat, “The reason voters see past the terrible headlines with Seattle schools”, in The Seattle Times:

(countable, uncountable, chiefly British, Australia and Canada, by extension) A hard, persistent effort, session of work, or period.

(countable, cricket) An aggressive shot played with little skill.


slog

en-verb

slog (third-person singular simple present slogs, present participle slogging, simple past and past participle slogged)

slogs (present singular third-person)
slogging (participle present)
slogged (participle past)
slogged (past)

The leading engine was one of the Class Y6 2-8-8-2 compound articulateds, [...] The stack noise of one of these great brutes slogging up a grade was quite unforgettable.

1961 July, J. Geoffrey Todd, “Impressions of railroading in the United States: Part Two”, in Trains Illustrated, page 419:

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
A miraculous desert rain. We slog, dripping, into As Safi, Jordan. We drive the sodden mules through wet streets. To the town’s only landmark. To the “Museum at the Lowest Place on Earth.”

(intransitive) To walk slowly or doggedly, encountering resistance.

(intransitive, by extension) To work slowly and deliberately at a tedious task.

бъхтя се

to work slowly and deliberately at a tedious task


scamper

scamper (third-person singular simple present scampers, present participle scampering, simple past and past participle scampered)

scampers (present singular third-person)
scampering (participle present)
scampered (participle past)
scampered (past)

First attested in 1687. Origin uncertain, but possibly from Dutch schamperen, from Old French escamper, from Vulgar Latin *excampāre.

The dog scampered after the squirrel.

[W]hy if you don't ſcamper, you'll be baſtil'd, before you can ſay, "Killarney."

1791 (first performance), [Frederic] Reynolds, Notoriety: A Comedy, Dublin: […] P. Byrne, […], published 1792, →OCLC, Act IV, scene [i], page 43:

The younger and lighter members of his tribe scampered to the higher branches of the great trees to escape his wrath; risking their lives upon branches that scarce supported their weight rather than face old Kerchak in one of his fits of uncontrolled anger.

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:

Three minutes later, Luka Modric scampered down the right, clipped a cross to the near post and Ronaldo’s clipped finish gave the remainder of the match an air of inevitability.

2017 June 3, Daniel Taylor, “Real Madrid win Champions League as Cristiano Ronaldo double defeats Juv”, in The Guardian (London):

(intransitive) To run lightly and quickly, especially in a playful or undignified manner.

rabas

to run lightly and quickly, especially in a playful manner or in an undignified manner


loupe

löppt (present singular third-person)
léïp (preterite)
geloupe (participle past)
séëne (auxiliary)
loupe (infinitive irregular)
geloupe (irregular participle)
séëne (auxiliary irregular)
loup (first-person indicative irregular present singular)
léïp (first-person indicative irregular past singular)
lääp (conditional first-person irregular singular)
löpps (indicative irregular present second-person singular)
léïps (indicative irregular past second-person singular)
lääps (conditional irregular second-person singular)
loup (imperative irregular second-person singular)
löppt (indicative irregular present singular third-person)
léïp (indicative irregular past singular third-person)
lääp (conditional irregular singular third-person)
loupe (first-person indicative irregular plural present)
léïpe (first-person indicative irregular past plural)
lääpe (conditional first-person irregular plural)
loppt (indicative irregular plural present second-person)
léïpt (indicative irregular past plural second-person)
lääpt (conditional irregular plural second-person)
loppt (imperative irregular plural second-person)
loupe (indicative irregular plural present third-person)
léïpe (indicative irregular past plural third-person)
lääpe (conditional irregular plural third-person)

From Middle Limburgish loupen, from Old Limburgish loupan, from Proto-West Germanic *hlaupan, from Proto-Germanic *hlaupaną.

(transitive or intransitive) to walk; to jog; to run (to move on foot; either at a normal or an increased speed)


whisk

whisk (third-person singular simple present whisks, present participle whisking, simple past and past participle whisked)

whisks (present singular third-person)
whisking (participle present)
whisked (participle past)
whisked (past)

From Middle English whisk, borrowed from Old Norse visk, from Proto-Germanic *wiskaz, *wiskō (“bundle of hay, wisp”), from Proto-Indo-European *weys-.
Cognates
Danish visk, Dutch wis, German Wisch, Latin virga (“rod, switch”), viscus (“entrails”), Lithuanian vizgéti (“to tremble”), Czech věchet (“wisp of straw”), Sanskrit वेष्क (veṣka, “noose”).
Compare also Old English wiscian (“to plait”), granwisc (“awn”).
The unetymological wh- is probably expressive of the sound; compare the same development in whip and onomatopoeias such as whack and whoosh.

The stories did not seem to me to touch life. […] They left me with the impression of a well-delivered stereopticon lecture, with characters about as life-like as the shadows on the screen, and whisking on and off, at the mercy of the operator.

1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter I, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:

The children whisked down the road to the fair, laughing and chattering as they went.

(intransitive) To move lightly and nimbly.


démarche

→ English: démarche


scream

scream (third-person singular simple present screams, present participle screaming, simple past and past participle screamed or (nonstandard) screamt)

screams (present singular third-person)
screaming (participle present)
screamed (participle past)
screamed (past)
screamt (nonstandard participle past)
screamt (nonstandard past)
scream (infinitive)

From Middle English scremen, scræmen, probably from a fusion of Middle Dutch scremen (“to yell; shout”) and Old Norse skræma (“to terrify; scare”); compare Dutch schremen (“to shout; yell; cry”), Swedish skrämma (“to spook; frighten”), Danish skræmme (“to scare”), West Frisian skrieme (“to weep”). Compare also Swedish skräna (“to yell; shout; howl”), Dutch schreien (“to cry; weep”), German schreien (“to scream”). Related to shriek, skrike.

He almost hit a pole, the way he came screaming down the hill.

Things had improved a little bit compared to the Eastern Solomons, and three dozen F4F Wildcats on combat air patrol were vectored onto the oncoming hostiles, but once that initial task was accomplished, things began to collapse back into the cacophony and chaos that was all too familiar to those aboard the Enterprise, meaning that the end result was round about the same, the Japanese aircraft screaming into their attack runs on Hornet about the same time as most of the Wildcats managed to sort themselves out to begin their own attacks on the incoming.

2021 February 3, Drachinifel, 11:05 from the start, in Guadalcanal Campaign - Santa Cruz (IJN 2 : 2 USN), archived from the original on 2022-12-04:

(intransitive, figuratively)
To move quickly; to race.


shank

From Middle English schanke, from Old English sċanca (“leg”), from Proto-West Germanic *skankō, from Proto-Germanic *skankô (compare West Frisian skonk, Low German Schanke, German Schenkel (“shank, leg”), Danish skank, Norwegian skank, Swedish skänkel), from *skankaz (compare Old Norse skakkr (“wry, crooked”)), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)keng- (compare Middle Irish scingim (“I spring”), Ancient Greek σκάζω (skázō, “to limp”).

(ornithology, colloquial) A redshank or greenshank, various species of Old World wading birds in the genus Tringa having distinctly colored legs.

Alternative form: yank

LBC's tryna blackball me / And tryna blame your boy for knife crime (Like, what?) / I don't use a shank, I got money in the bank / Man, I'd rather do a drive-by

2017, Stormzy, Mura Masa (lyrics and music), “Mr Skeng” (track 1), in Gang Signs & Prayer, performed by Stormzy:

One of the shot callers' responsibilities was to control the shanks within the prison population—the crude homemade knives used for stabbing another prisoner.

2019, Casey Diaz, Mike Yorkey, The Shot Caller […] , Emanate Books, →ISBN, page 76:

(printing, dated) The body of a type; between the shoulder and the foot.


shank

shank (third-person singular simple present shanks, present participle shanking, simple past and past participle shanked)

shanks (present singular third-person)
shanking (participle present)
shanked (participle past)
shanked (past)

the gerrnens of these swelled, and on four out of the six I have now got fine pods, above 1% inch in length, with the seeds externally visible; whereas the flower stalks of the many other flowers all shanked off.

1861, Charles Darwin, Cause of the variation of flowers:

(intransitive) To fall off, as a leaf, flower, or capsule, on account of disease affecting the supporting footstalk; usually followed by off.


halt

halt (third-person singular simple present halts, present participle halting, simple past and past participle halted)

halts (present singular third-person)
halting (participle present)
halted (participle past)
halted (past)

From Middle English halten, from Old English healtian (“to be lame, walk with a limp”), from Proto-Germanic *haltōną, related to *haltaz. English usage in the sense of 'make a halt' is from the noun. Cognate with North Frisian halte, Swedish halta.

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Here comes Sir Toby halting — you shall hear more; but if he had not been in drink, he would have tickled you othergates than he did.

c. 1601–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Twelfe Night, or What You Will”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i]:

Do not smile at me that I boast her of,
For thou shalt find she will outstrip all praise,
And make it halt behind her.

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 IV, scene i]:

(intransitive) To limp; move with a limping gait.


crawl

en-verb

crawl (third-person singular simple present crawls, present participle crawling, simple past and past participle crawled)

crawls (present singular third-person)
crawling (participle present)
crawled (participle past)
crawled (past)

→ German: kraulen

From Middle English crawlen, crewlen, creulen, crallen, *cravelen, from Old Norse krafla (compare Danish kravle (“to crawl, creep”), Swedish kravla, kräla)), from Proto-Germanic *krablōną (compare Dutch krabbelen, German Low German krabbeln, German krabbeln), frequentative of *krabbōną (“to scratch, scrape”). Compare also West Frisian kreauwelje (“to crawl”), Dutch krevelen, krieuwelen (“to crawl”), German Low German kribbeln, German kribbeln (“to creep, crawl, tingle”). See also crab, crabble.

cog

Clutching my wounded side, I crawled back to the trench.

A VVorm finds vvhat it ſearches after, only by Feeling, as it cravvls from one thing to another. VVhereas a Man, having Eyes, ſees it in a Moment, all before him.

1701, Nehemiah Grew, “Of Celestial Mind”, in Cosmologia Sacra: Or A Discourse of the Universe as It is the Creature and Kingdom of God. […], London: […] W[illiam] Rogers, S[amuel] Smith, and B[enjamin] Walford: […], →OCLC, 2nd book, paragraph 32, page 83:

'Children crawled over each other like little grey worms in the gutters,' he said. 'The only red things about them were their buttocks and they were raw. Their faces looked as if snails had slimed on them and their mothers were like great sick beasts whose byres had never been cleared.[…]'

1963, Margery Allingham, chapter VII, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:

(intransitive) To creep; to move slowly on hands and knees, or by dragging the body along the ground.

They crawled the downtown bars.

"I used to crawl the Dungeon like you do, Bell, saving up money... But one day, I screwed verything up. Got thoroughly wrecked by a monster, and it ate my right arm."

2015, Fujino Omori, Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon?, Vol. 4 (light novel), Yen Press LLC, →ISBN:

Eric had crawled the downtown bar scene with these guys many nights, after gigs and back when they were all in college together. Eric liked hanging with them, because they were as comfortable hanging anywhere—sports bars; gay clubs; […]

2019, Leigh Landry, Cajun Two-Step: The Complete Series, Leigh Landry:

One of the later Crawl trailers, the Nintendo Switch version, advertises its key gameplay in a sentence, “Crawl the dungeon while your friends possess the traps, beasts, and bosses against you” before later adopting the phrase […]

2021, Antonio Alcala Gonzalez, Carl H. Sederholm, Lovecraft in the 21st Century: Dead, But Still Dreaming, Routledge, →ISBN:

(transitive) To move over (an area) slowly, with frequent stops.


crawl

→ Portuguese: crol, crawl

My computer has slowed down to a crawl since I installed that software package.


veer

en-verb

veer (third-person singular simple present veers, present participle veering, simple past and past participle veered)

veers (present singular third-person)
veering (participle present)
veered (participle past)
veered (past)

back

antonym(s) of “of the wind, to shift clockwise”

haul forward

antonym(s) of “of the wind, to shift aft”


vault

Borrowed from Middle French volter (“to turn or spin around; to frolic”), borrowed from Italian voltare, itself from a Vulgar Latin frequentative form of Latin volvere; later assimilated to Etymology 1, above.

bor

(gymnastics) A gymnastic movement performed on this apparatus.


scuffle

en-verb

scuffle (third-person singular simple present scuffles, present participle scuffling, simple past and past participle scuffled)

scuffles (present singular third-person)
scuffling (participle present)
scuffled (participle past)
scuffled (past)

Possibly of North Germanic/Scandinavian origin; compare Swedish skuff (“a push”) and skuffa (“to push”), from the Proto-Germanic base *skuf- (skuƀ), from Proto-Indo-European *skewbʰ-, see also Lithuanian skùbti (“to hurry”), Polish skubać (“to pluck”), Albanian humb (“to lose”).

But shiftings and readjustments ensued, as they are sure to do with a walking-party. Cope presently found himself scuffling through the thin grass and the briery thickets alongside the young business-man.

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:

(intransitive) To walk with a shuffling gait.