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[edit] English

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[edit] Etymology 1

From Old English loppe, Old Norse *hloppa. Confer Swedish loppa.

[edit] Noun

Singular
lop

Plural
lops

lop (plural lops)

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

[edit] References

  • The New Geordie Dictionary, Frank Graham, 1987, ISBN 0946928118
  • A Dictionary of North East Dialect, Bill Griffiths, 2005, Northumbria University Press, ISBN 1904794165
  • lop in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
  • lop” in the Online Etymology Dictionary, Douglas Harper, 2001
  • Newcastle 1970s, Scott Dobson and Dick Irwin, [1]
  • Northumberland Words, English Dialect Society, R. Oliver Heslop, 1893-4[2]
  • A List of words and phrases in everyday use by the natives of Hetton-le-Hole in the County of Durham, F.M.T.Palgrave, English Dialect Society vol.74, 1896, [3]
  • Todd's Geordie Words and Phrases, George Todd, Newcastle, 1977[4]

[edit] Etymology 2

From Middle English loppe.

[edit] Verb

Infinitive
to lop

Third person singular
lops

Simple past
lopped

Past participle
lopped

Present participle
lopping

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

  1. To cut off as the top or extreme part of anything, especially to prune a small limb off a shrub or tree.

[edit] References

  • lop” in the Online Etymology Dictionary, Douglas Harper, 2001

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[edit] Hungarian

[edit] Etymology

Of unknown origin.

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[edit] Verb

lop

  1. to steal, to shoplift

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[edit] Occitan

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[edit] Noun

lop m. (plural lops; feminine loba; feminine plural lobas)

  1. wolf