A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 1963 (DOST Vol. III).
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Hop, v. Also: hoppe. [ME. hoppe, OE. hoppian, ON. hoppa. A later variant is Hap.]
1. intr. To leap, jump, hop. (Said of persons and things.) Rare except in verse.(13..) W. Rishanger Chronica (ed. H. T. Riley, Rolls Series, London, 1865) 187.
[Wallace]
dicens eis [the Scottish infantry at Falkirk] patria lingua, ita 'I
haue browghte ȝowe to the ryng, hoppe ȝef ȝe kunne
[Walsingham hop gif ye kun]'(c 1300) Ib. 385.c1460 Alex. (Taym.) 3214.
Helm and hed baith in the feild doun hoppita1500 Henr. Fab. 1716.
The harrowis hoppand in the saweris trace a1500 Colk. Sow 167.
Hog hoppit our hog a1500 Gol. & Gaw. 952.
He … Gart beryallis hop of the hathill 1513 Doug. i. Prol. 184.
That quent philosophy Haldis sawlys hoppys fra body to body Ib. xii. xii. 6.
Ene … hoppit vp for joy 15.. Sym & Bruder 92.
He hoppit sa mycht na man hald him 1549 Compl. 37/20.
There vas mony smal birdis hoppand fra busk to tuist
b. To rebound, bounce.1513 Doug. vii. Prol. 137.
Scharp hailstanys … Hoppand on the thak and on the causay by 1560 Rolland Seven S. 9559.
Gwydois heid it hoppit on the ground
2. To dance, caper.c1500-c1512 Dunb. liii. 25.
Thair he daunset the dirrye dantoun. He hoppet lyk a pillie wantoun 1513 Doug. viii. xi. 49.
The dansand prestis … Hoppand and syngand wonder merely
