Hopping
['hɒpɪŋ] or ['hɑpɪŋ]
Definition
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Hop
(n.) The act of one who, or that which, hops; a jumping, frisking, or dancing.
(n.) A gathering of hops.
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Examples
- These he showed us from the drawing-room window, while his bird was hopping about his head, and he laughed, Ha ha ha ha! Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Mr Wegg was much distressed when the quarter of an hour expired, and came hopping in, a very bad second. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- All this time it was incessantly hopping on behind and gaining on him, so that when the boy got to his own door he had reason for being half dead. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
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