lop

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /lɒp/    美 /lɑp/|/lɔp/|/lɒp/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. That which is lopped from anything, such as branches from a tree.
    — Why, we take, From every tree, lop, bark, and part o'the timber
  2. A flea. Geordie
    — Hadway wi ye man, ye liftin wi lops.
  3. (usually offensive) A disabled person, a cripple. US,dated,slang
    — "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."
  4. Any of several breeds of rabbits whose ears lie flat.
动词 v.
  1. 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. transitive,usually
    — 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

词形变化

lops present,singular,third-person lopping participle,present lopped participle,past lopped past lopt participle,past lopt past lops plural lops plural lops plural

词汇关系

衍生词
alop lop down lop-eared lop off lopper loppers loppy lopseed unlopped
相关词
lob lop chong

词源

词源 1
From Middle English loppe (“bough”); the verb is a back-formation from the noun.
词源 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”).
词源 3
Back-formation from lopsided.
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