giddyup

See also: giddy up

English

Alternative forms

• giddy-up, giddy up
• gedup
• geddup
• giddap
• giddup
• giddyap

Etymology

From get up or get ye/thee up.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈɡɪdɪˌʌp/, /ˌɡɪdɪˈʌp/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈɡɪdiˌʌp/
• Hyphenation: gid‧dy‧up

Interjection

giddyup

1. (directed at a horse) Move on!, go faster!

Synonyms

• gee up

Antonyms

• whoa

Translations

used to make a horse go faster

• Arabic: يَالَلَا (yālalā)
• Bashkir: на (na)
• Catalan: arri (ca), arre (ca) (Valencia)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 駕／驾 (zh) (jià)

• Czech: hyjé (cs)
• Dutch: hu (nl), hot (nl), hortsik (nl)
• Esperanto: hot (eo)
• Estonian: nõõ
• Finnish: hopoti-hop
• French: hue (fr)
• Galician: arre (gl), ei (gl)
• German: hü (de), hüa
• Greek: ντε (el) (nte)
• Hebrew: דִּיוֹ (he) (diyō)
• Hungarian: gyí (hu)
• Ingrian: njoo
• Italian: arri
• Japanese: ワオ (wao), 進め (ja) (すすめ, susume), はい (ja) (hai)
• Korean: 워 (ko) (wo), 이랴 (irya)
• Latin: please add this translation if you can
• Macedonian: ди (di)
• Mari:

  Eastern Mari: кӱснеч (küsńeč)

• Mongolian: чөх (mn) (čöx)
• Norwegian: please add this translation if you can
• Occitan: arri
• Persian: please add this translation if you can
• Polish: wio (pl)
• Portuguese: eia, upa (pt), epa
• Romanian: dii
• Russian: но (ru) (no), но́-о-о (nó-o-o), гей (ru) (gej, hej)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ђи̏ха, ђи̏ја

  Roman: đȉha (sh), đȉja

• Spanish: arre (es)
• Swedish: hoppla (sv)
• Tagalog: hiya
• Turkish: deh (tr)
• Ukrainian: вйо (vjo), но (no), гей (uk) (hej)
• Votic: nʹoo

Verb

giddyup (third-person singular simple present giddyups, present participle giddyuping or giddyupping, simple past and past participle giddyuped or giddyupped)

1. To cause a horse or similar mount to speed up.
   • 2011, Janet Dailey, Foxfire Light, →ISBN, page 30:

     Not expecting any traffic, he giddyuped them onto the main road.

2. (by extension) To start moving or move faster; to get a move on.
   • 2012, Celine Kiernan, Into the Grey, →ISBN:

     But she just kept bopping up and down and telling me to giddyup, so that I had to turn and make my way properly on the stairs for fear of her pulling us both over.

   • 2012, Thaddeus Deluca, At Bully Hills: Confessions of an American Oxycontin Addict, →ISBN, page 32:

     “Yeah, been partying since I was fourteen, never thought I'd wind-up in a place like this,” I sat there for a moment in quiet reflection, “been high most of my life . . . on one thing or another . . . guess it's time I giddyuped and got going on this clean up my act thing, I've hit the break point . . . gotta' do something . . . do something or it's going to kill me."