Note: these 'words' (valid or invalid) are all the permutations of the word lop. These words are obtained by scrambling the letters in lop.
Definitions and meaning of lop
lop
Pronunciation
IPA(key): /lɒp/
Rhymes: -ɒp
Etymology 1
From Middle Englishloppe(“bough”); the verb is a back-formation from the noun.
Verb
lop (third-person singular simple presentlops, present participlelopping, simple past and past participleloppedorlopt)
(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,
To hang downward; to be pendent; to lean to one side.
To allow to hang down.
to lop the head
Synonyms
(to cut off):snead
Derived terms
lopper, loppers
Translations
Noun
lop (plurallops)
That which is lopped from anything, such as branches from a tree.
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See also
defalcate
References
“lop” in Douglas Harper, Online Etymology Dictionary, 2001–2021.
Etymology 2
From Middle Englishloppe(“flea, spider”), from Old Englishloppe(“spider, silk-worm, flea”), from Proto-Germanic*luppǭ(“flea, sandflea", originally, "jumper”), from Proto-Germanic*luppijaną(“to jump, dart”). Cognate with Danishloppe(“flea”), Swedishloppa(“flea”). Compare also Middle High Germanlüpfen, lupfen (“to raise”, obsolete also “to rise”).
Noun
lop (plurallops)
(Tyneside) A flea.
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Hadway wi ye man, ye liftin wi lops.
References
The New Geordie Dictionary, Frank Graham, 1987, →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.
“lop” in Douglas Harper, Online Etymology Dictionary, 2001–2021.
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.
Noun
lop (plurallops)
(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."
Any of several breeds of rabbits whose ears lie flat.
See also
lob
Anagrams
LPO, PLO, POL, Pol., pol
A-Pucikwar
Etymology
From Proto-Great Andamanese*lap
Verb
lop
to count
References
Juliette Blevins, Linguistic clues to Andamanese pre-history: Understanding the North-South divide, pg. 21 (2009)
Franco-Provençal
Etymology
Probably influenced by Frenchloup, from Latinlupus. Doublet of naturally inherited luef.
Noun
lopm (plurallops)
wolf
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
(transitive) to steal, to shoplift (from someone -tól/-től)
Conjugation
Derived terms
(With verbal prefixes):
Descendants
References
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.
Indonesian
Etymology
From Dutchloop, from Middle Dutchlôop, from Old Dutch*lōp.
“lop” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.