lop
English[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
From Middle English loppe (“bough”); the verb is a back-formation from the noun.
Verb[edit]
lop (third-person singular simple present lops, present participle lopping, simple past and past participle lopped or lopt)
- (transitive, usually with off) To cut off as the top or extreme part of anything, especially to prune a small limb off a shrub or tree, or sometimes to behead someone.
- 1742, Edward Young, The Complaint: or Night-Thoughts on Life, Death & Immortality, Night I
- Some, for hard masters, broken under arms,
- In battle lopt away, with half their limbs,
- Beg bitter bread thro’ realms their valour sav’d,
- 1742, Edward Young, The Complaint: or Night-Thoughts on Life, Death & Immortality, Night I
- To hang downward; to be pendent; to lean to one side.
- To allow to hang down.
- to lop the head
Synonyms[edit]
- (to cut off): snead
Derived terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
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Noun[edit]
lop (plural lops)
- That which is lopped from anything, such as branches from a tree.
- 1613 (date written), William Shakespeare; [John Fletcher], “The Famous History of the Life of King Henry the Eight”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii]:
- Why, we take,
From every tree, lop, bark, and part o'the timber
- 1707, J[ohn] Mortimer, The Whole Art of Husbandry; or, The Way of Managing and Improving of Land. […], 2nd edition, London: […] J[ohn] H[umphreys] for H[enry] Mortlock […], and J[onathan] Robinson […], published 1708, →OCLC:
- I ſhall not trouble you about the raiſing of them of Truncheons or Lops, because I could never find them to take; only ſometimes ſome of the ſmallest Suckers, when the Sap is newly ſtirring in them, if they are ſlipt off from the Tree, will grow
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- Douglas Harper (2001–2023), “lop”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
Etymology 2[edit]
From Middle English loppe (“flea, spider”), from Old English loppe (“spider, silk-worm, flea”), from Proto-Germanic *luppǭ (“flea, sandflea", originally, "jumper”), from Proto-Germanic *luppijaną (“to jump, dart”). Cognate with Danish loppe (“flea”), Swedish loppa (“flea”). Compare also Middle High German lüpfen, lupfen (“to raise”, obsolete also “to rise”).
Noun[edit]
lop (plural lops)
- (Tyneside) A flea.
- 1651, John Cleveland, “The Hue and Cry after Sir John Presbiter”, in Poems:
- Lice, That's nick name to the stuff called Lops
- Hadway wi ye man, ye liftin wi lops.
References[edit]
- Frank Graham (1987) The New Geordie Dictionary, →ISBN
- A Dictionary of North East Dialect, Bill Griffiths, 2005, Northumbria University Press, →ISBN
- lop in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- Douglas Harper (2001–2023), “lop”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
- Newcastle 1970s, Scott Dobson and Dick Irwin, [1]
- Northumberland Words, English Dialect Society, R. Oliver Heslop, 1893–4
- 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, [2]
- Todd's Geordie Words and Phrases, George Todd, Newcastle, 1977[3]
Etymology 3[edit]
Back-formation from lopsided.

Noun[edit]
lop (plural lops)
- (US, dated, slang) (usually offensive) A disabled person, a cripple.
- 1935: Rex Stout, The League of Frightened Men, p5
- "He's a lop; it mentions here about his getting up to the stand with his crippled leg but it doesn't say which one."
- 1935: Rex Stout, The League of Frightened Men, p5
- Any of several breeds of rabbits whose ears lie flat.
See also[edit]
Anagrams[edit]
A-Pucikwar[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Proto-Great Andamanese *lap.
Verb[edit]
lop
- to count
References[edit]
- Juliette Blevins, Linguistic clues to Andamanese pre-history: Understanding the North-South divide, pg. 21 (2009)
Franco-Provençal[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Probably influenced by French loup, from Latin lupus. Doublet of naturally inherited luef.
Noun[edit]
lop m (plural lops)
Hungarian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Of unknown origin. First attested around 1519. Another possible citing as a proper noun in 1086 is also mentioned.[1]
Pronunciation[edit]
Verb[edit]
lop
- (transitive) to steal, to shoplift (from someone -tól/-től)
- Másoktól lop ötleteket. ― He/she steals ideas from others.
- Synonyms: (slang) csór, lenyúl, meglovasít, megfúj, (literary) oroz, (formal) eltulajdonít, (euphemistic, informal) elemel
- Perfective: ellop
Conjugation[edit]
1st person sg | 2nd person sg informal |
3rd person sg, 2nd p. sg formal |
1st person pl | 2nd person pl informal |
3rd person pl, 2nd p. pl formal | |||
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Indicative mood |
Present | Indef. | lopok | lopsz | lop | lopunk | loptok | lopnak |
Def. | lopom | lopod | lopja | lopjuk | lopjátok | lopják | ||
2nd-p. o. | loplak | ― | ||||||
Past | Indef. | loptam | loptál | lopott | loptunk | loptatok | loptak | |
Def. | loptam | loptad | lopta | loptuk | loptátok | lopták | ||
2nd-p. o. | loptalak | ― | ||||||
Conditional mood |
Present | Indef. | lopnék | lopnál | lopna | lopnánk | lopnátok | lopnának |
Def. | lopnám | lopnád | lopná | lopnánk (or lopnók) |
lopnátok | lopnák | ||
2nd-p. o. | lopnálak | ― | ||||||
Subjunctive mood |
Present | Indef. | lopjak | lopj or lopjál |
lopjon | lopjunk | lopjatok | lopjanak |
Def. | lopjam | lopd or lopjad |
lopja | lopjuk | lopjátok | lopják | ||
2nd-p. o. | lopjalak | ― | ||||||
Infinitive | lopni | lopnom | lopnod | lopnia | lopnunk | lopnotok | lopniuk | |
Other nonfinite verb forms |
Verbal noun | Present participle | Past participle | Future part. | Adverbial part. | Potential | ||
lopás | lopó | lopott | lopandó | lopva | lophat |
Derived terms[edit]
(With verbal prefixes):
Descendants[edit]
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ lop in Zaicz, Gábor (ed.). Etimológiai szótár: Magyar szavak és toldalékok eredete (‘Dictionary of Etymology: The origin of Hungarian words and affixes’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2006, →ISBN. (See also its 2nd edition.)
Further reading[edit]
- lop in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
Indonesian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Dutch loop, from Middle Dutch lôop, from Old Dutch *lōp.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
lop (plural lop-lop, first-person possessive lopku, second-person possessive lopmu, third-person possessive lopnya)
Further reading[edit]
- “lop” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.
Middle English[edit]
Noun[edit]
lop
- Alternative form of loppe (“spider”)
Occitan[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Old Occitan lop, from Latin lupus.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
lop m (plural lops, feminine loba, feminine plural lobas)
Derived terms[edit]
Veps[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Proto-Finnic *loppu.
Noun[edit]
lop
Volapük[edit]
Noun[edit]
lop (nominative plural lops)
Declension[edit]
Derived terms[edit]
- English 1-syllable words
- English terms with IPA pronunciation
- English terms with audio links
- Rhymes:English/ɒp
- Rhymes:English/ɒp/1 syllable
- English terms inherited from Middle English
- English terms derived from Middle English
- English lemmas
- English verbs
- English transitive verbs
- English nouns
- English countable nouns
- English terms with quotations
- English terms inherited from Old English
- English terms derived from Old English
- English terms inherited from Proto-Germanic
- English terms derived from Proto-Germanic
- Geordie English
- English terms with usage examples
- Northumbrian English
- American English
- English dated terms
- English slang
- English offensive terms
- en:Fleas
- A-Pucikwar terms inherited from Proto-Great Andamanese
- A-Pucikwar terms derived from Proto-Great Andamanese
- A-Pucikwar lemmas
- A-Pucikwar verbs
- Franco-Provençal terms borrowed from French
- Franco-Provençal terms derived from French
- Franco-Provençal terms derived from Latin
- Franco-Provençal lemmas
- Franco-Provençal nouns
- Franco-Provençal masculine nouns
- frp:Canids
- Hungarian terms with unknown etymologies
- Hungarian terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Hungarian/op
- Rhymes:Hungarian/op/1 syllable
- Hungarian lemmas
- Hungarian verbs
- Hungarian transitive verbs
- Hungarian verbs taking -tól/-től
- Hungarian terms with usage examples
- Hungarian three-letter words
- Indonesian terms borrowed from Dutch
- Indonesian terms derived from Dutch
- Indonesian terms derived from Middle Dutch
- Indonesian terms derived from Old Dutch
- Indonesian terms with IPA pronunciation
- Indonesian lemmas
- Indonesian nouns
- Middle English lemmas
- Middle English nouns
- Occitan terms inherited from Old Occitan
- Occitan terms derived from Old Occitan
- Occitan terms inherited from Latin
- Occitan terms derived from Latin
- Occitan terms with IPA pronunciation
- Occitan terms with audio links
- Occitan lemmas
- Occitan nouns
- Occitan masculine nouns
- Occitan countable nouns
- oc:Mammals
- Veps lemmas
- Veps nouns
- Volapük lemmas
- Volapük nouns