lop

See also: Lop, løp, löp, lốp, and lớp

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lɒp/

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• Rhymes: -ɒp

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Etymology 1

From Middle English loppe (“bough”); the verb is a back-formation from the noun.

Verb

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

1. (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,

2. To hang downward; to be pendent; to lean to one side.
3. To allow to hang down.

   to lop the head

Synonyms

• (to cut off): snead

Derived terms

• lopper, loppers

Translations

cut off

• Bulgarian: кастря (bg) (kastrja), подрязвам (bg) (podrjazvam)
• Czech: osekat pf
• Galician: fanar, demoucar, decotar, podar (gl), moucar
• Greek: κλαδεύω (el) (kladévo)
• Hungarian: levág (hu), lenyes (hu), lecsíp, levesz (hu)
• Ido: rekortar (io)

• Irish: meang
• Latin: putō (la)
• Maori: pōuto
• Portuguese: podar (pt), cortar (pt)
• Russian: обруба́ть (ru) n (obrubátʹ)
• Spanish: podar (es), cortar (es), mochar (es)
• Swedish: kvista (sv), avkvista

Noun

lop (plural lops)

1. That which is lopped from anything, such as branches from a tree.
   • 1613, William Shakespeare; [John Fletcher], “The Famous History of the Life of King Henry the Eight”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [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 13320837:

     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

• defalcate

References

• Douglas Harper (2001–2022), “lop”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.

Etymology 2

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

lop (plural lops)

1. (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

• 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 (2001–2022), “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

Back-formation from lopsided.

An English Lop rabbit

Noun

lop (plural lops)

1. (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."

2. Any of several breeds of rabbits whose ears lie flat.

See also

• lob

Anagrams

• LPO, PLO, POL, Pol., pol

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A-Pucikwar

Etymology

From Proto-Great Andamanese *lap

Verb

lop

1. to count

References

• Juliette Blevins, Linguistic clues to Andamanese pre-history: Understanding the North-South divide, pg. 21 (2009)

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Franco-Provençal

Etymology

Probably influenced by French loup, from Latin lupus. Doublet of naturally inherited luef.

Noun

lop m (plural lops)

1. wolf

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Hungarian

Etymology

Of unknown origin. First attested around 1519. Another possible citing as a proper noun in 1086 is also mentioned.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈlop]
• Rhymes: -op

Verb

lop

1. (transitive) to steal, to shoplift (from someone -tól/-től)

   Másoktól lop ötleteket. ― He/she steals ideas from others.

Conjugation

conjugation of lop

			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
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	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

• lopakodik
• lopás
• lopat
• lopdos
• lopható
• lopkod
• lopódzik
• lopogat
• naplopó

 

(With verbal prefixes):

• belop
• belelop
• ellop
• hozzálop
• kilop
• lelop
• meglop
• összelop
• visszalop

Descendants

• Serbo-Croatian: lopov

• Slovene: lópov

Further reading

• lop in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

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Indonesian

Etymology

From Dutch loop, from Middle Dutch lôop, from Old Dutch *lōp.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈlɔp̚]
• Hyphenation: lop

Noun

lop (plural lop-lop, first-person possessive lopku, second-person possessive lopmu, third-person possessive lopnya)

1. barrel (of a firearm)

   Synonym: laras

Further reading

• “lop” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

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Middle English

Noun

lop

1. Alternative form of loppe (“spider”)

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Occitan

Etymology

From Old Occitan lop, from Latin lupus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈlup]

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Noun

lop m (plural lops, feminine loba, feminine plural lobas)

1. wolf

Derived terms

• cese de lop
• penche de lop

 

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Veps

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *loppu.

Noun

lop

1. end

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Volapük

Noun

lop (nominative plural lops)

1. opera

Declension

declension of lop

	singular	plural
nominative	lop	lops
genitive	lopa	lopas
dative	lope	lopes
accusative	lopi	lopis
vocative 1	o lop!	o lops!
predicative 2	lopu	lopus

• ¹ status as a case is disputed
• ² in later, non-classical Volapük only

Derived terms

• lopöp
• lopül