hirple
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 11
- Words With Friends
- 12
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- 6
Definition of hirple
1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included
verb
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(Northern, Scotland, UK, intransitive)To walk with a limp, to drag a limb, to walk lamely; to move with a gait somewhere between walking and crawling.
“Get you on that bicycle and hurry on, and I'll hirple after you the best I can.”
“A woman hirpled along the corridor towards them with the aid of a walking frame.”
“Around lunchtime he hirpled down the corridor to the Gents.”
“He is hasped and hooped and hirpling with pain, limping and looped in it.”
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Etymology
A word of unknown origin, first recorded in Scots sources from the late fifteenth century; but probably from Old Norse herpast (“to suffer from cramp”) the middle voice verb. Compare the Icelandic herpa (“to contract, to draw together”).
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