Definitions and meaning of trot
trot
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /tɹɑt/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /tɹɒt/
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- Rhymes: -ɒt
Etymology 1
From Middle English trotten, from Old French trotter, troter (“to go, trot”), from Medieval Latin *trottō, *trotō (“to go”), from Frankish *trottōn (“to go, run”), from Proto-Germanic *trudōną, *trudaną, *tradjaną (“to go, step, tread”), from Proto-Indo-European *dreh₂- (“to run, escape”). Cognate with Old High German trottōn (“to run”), Modern German trotten (“to trot, plod”), Gothic 𐍄𐍂𐌿𐌳𐌰𐌽 (trudan, “to tread”), Old Norse troða (“to walk, tread”), Old English tredan (“to step, tread”). Doublet of tread.
Noun
trot (plural trots)
- (archaic, derogatory) An ugly old woman, a hag. [From 1362.]
- (chiefly of horses) A gait of a four-legged animal between walk and canter, a diagonal gait (in which diagonally opposite pairs of legs move together).
- A gait of a person or animal faster than a walk but slower than a run.
- A brisk journey or progression.
- We often take the car and have a trot down to the beach.
- In this lesson we'll have a quick trot through Chapter 3 before moving on to Chapter 4.
- A toddler. [From 1854.]
- 1855, William Makepeace Thackeray, The Newcomes, 1869, The Works of William Makepeace Thackeray, Volume V: The Newcomes, Volume I, page 123,
- […] but Ethel romped with the little children — the rosy little trots — and took them on her knees, and told them a thousand stories.
- (obsolete) A young animal. [From 1895.]
- (dance) A moderately rapid dance.
- (Australia, obsolete) A succession of heads thrown in a game of two-up.
- (Australia, New Zealand, with "good" or "bad") A run of luck or fortune.
- He′s had a good trot, but his luck will end soon.
- (dated, slang, among students) Synonym of horse (illegitimate study aid)
- (informal, as 'the trots') Diarrhoea.
- He's got a bad case of the trots and has to keep running off to the toilet.
Synonyms
- (gait of an animal between walk and canter):
- (ugly old woman): See Thesaurus:old woman
- (gait of a person faster than a walk): jog
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
trot (third-person singular simple present trots, present participle trotting, simple past and past participle trotted)
- (intransitive) To move along briskly; specifically, to move at a pace between a walk and a run.
- I didn't want to miss my bus, so I trotted the last few hundred yards to the stop.
- The dog trotted along obediently by his master's side.
- 1927-29, M.K. Gandhi, The Story of My Experiments with Truth, translated 1940 by Mahadev Desai, Part I, Chapter xiv:
- I would trot ten or twelve miles each day, go into a cheap restaurant and eat my fill of bread, but would never be satisfied. During these wanderings I once hit on a vegetarian restaurant in Farringdon Street. The sight of it filled me with the same joy that a child feels on getting a thing after its own heart.
- c. 1920s-1930s, Charlotte Druitt Cole, Runaway Jane:
- They sent little Jane to the garden to play,
- But she opened the gate, and then trotted away
- Under the hawthorns and down the green lane,
- Bad little, mad little, runaway Jane!
- (intransitive, of a horse) To move at a gait between a walk and a canter.
- (transitive) To cause to move, as a horse or other animal, in the pace called a trot; to cause to run without galloping or cantering.
- (UK, slang, archaic, transitive) To bid against (a person) at an auction, so as to raise the price of the goods.
Synonyms
- (to walk rapidly): jog, pace
- See also Thesaurus:walk, Thesaurus:run
Derived terms
Translations
Etymology 2
Short for foxtrot, whose rhythms influenced the genre.
Noun
trot (uncountable)
- A genre of Korean pop music employing repetitive rhythm and vocal inflections.
Synonyms
Etymology 3
Noun
trot (plural trots)
- (derogatory, properly Trot) Clipping of Trotskyist.
References
Anagrams
- -tort, ROTT, Rott, TRTO, tort
Catalan
Etymology
Deverbal from trotar.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencian) [ˈtɾɔt]
Noun
trot m (plural trots)
- trot (gait)
Further reading
- “trot” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “trot” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
French
Etymology
Inherited from Old French trot, troter, from Medieval Latin trottare, of Germanic origin.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tʁo/
- IPA(key): /tʁɔ/ (older, now chiefly Belgium)
- Homophone: trop
Noun
trot m (plural trots)
- trot
Further reading
- “trot”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams
Scots
Etymology
From Middle English trotten, from Old French trotter, troter (“to go, trot”), from Medieval Latin *trottō, *trotō (“to go”), from Frankish *trottōn (“to go, run”), from Proto-Germanic *trudōną, *trudaną, *tradjaną (“to go, step, tread”), from Proto-Indo-European *dreh₂- (“to run, escape”).
Pronunciation
Verb
trot (third-person singular simple present trots, present participle trottin, simple past trottit, past participle trottit)
- to move at a quick steady pace
- to flow rapidly and noisily, purl, ripple (of water)
Derived terms
- (Ulster) trottle-caur (“a low vehicle for moving hay”)
Noun
trot (plural trots)
- a short, quick pace
- the fall, angle, or run on a drain
Derived terms
- jeoparty trot (“a quick motion between running and walking”)
- job-trot (“a slow, monotonous or easy going pace, the settled routine or way of doing things”)
- short in the trot (“short-tempered”)
Slovene
Etymology
From Proto-Slavic *trǫtъ.
Pronunciation
Noun
trọ̑t m anim
- drone (male bee)
Inflection
Further reading
- “trot”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran
Torres Strait Creole
Etymology
From English throat.
Noun
trot
- throat
Source: wiktionary.org