hobblen.

/ˈhɒb(ə)l/

Etymology: < hobble v.

1. The action of hobbling; an uneven, clumsy, infirm gait, with sinking and rising of the body. Also figurative of utterance.

ΘΚΠ

the world > movement > progressive motion > walking > [noun] > manner of walking > uneven or clumsy

hobble1726

hirple1830

1726 J. Swift Gulliver I. i. iv. 72 We can plainly discover one of his Heels higher than the other, which gives him a Hobble in his Gait.

1750 Ld. Chesterfield Let. 9 July (1932) (modernized text) IV. 1562 There is still a considerable hitch or hobble in your enunciation.

1871 C. Gibbon For Lack of Gold I. i. 3 His pace was a species of hobble.

1874 J. G. Wood Out of Doors 7 The walk of the Orangoutan is little better than an awkward hobble.

2. figurative. An awkward or perplexing situation from which extrication is difficult. dialect and colloquial. In Scottish habble: a difficulty, a perplexity.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > difficulty > [noun] > difficult state of things > predicament or straits > from which it is difficult to be extricated

pounda1500

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fang1535

quamire1555

pit1577

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bog1614

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vortex1779

quag1842

1775 J. Ash New Dict. Eng. Lang. Hobble,..a kind of blunder.

a1777 S. Foote Capuchin (1778) ii. 111 Take care what you say! you see what a hobble we had like to have got into.

1799 G. Washington Let. in Writings (1893) XIV. 193 I think you Wise men of the East, have got yourselves in a hobble.

1807 R. Tannahill Soldier's Return 41 (Jam.) Else, like the hero of our fable, We'll oft be plunged into a habble.

1820 Ld. Byron Blues i. 64 Pray get out of this hobble as fast as you can.

1866 Sat. Rev. 10 Nov. 575 We had got into such a hobble, there really seemed no way out of it save by betaking ourselves to spiritual weapons.

3. A rope, strap, clog, or other apparatus used for hobbling a horse or other beast (see hobble v. 7); transferred a fetter; = hopple n. 1 (Usually in plural). Also (chiefly Australian) hobble chain.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > general equipment > [noun] > hobble or fetter

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pastern1284

lock1384

langle1394

spannel1398

warlockc1440

curb1477

hough-band1568

foot widdy1569

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spancel1610

hopple1641

twitchel1689

collaring1692

hobble1744

sideline1803

hog-tie1902

pigging-string1924

1744 F. Moore Voy. Georgia 147 Two horses tied with hobbles.

1797 F. Baily Jrnl. Tour N. Amer. (1856) 336 Our horses would seldom or never stray..; however, we always took the precaution of putting hobbles on their feet.

1804 L. Dow Trav. in Wks. (1806) II. 63 [Crossing a stream] I lost my hobbles.

1831 W. Youatt Horse vii. 111 The horse is cast and secured, and the limb..removed from the hobbles and extended.

1842–4 H. Stephens Bk. of Farm (1849) I. 525/1 The hobbles are then placed on the hind fetlocks [of the cow] to keep the heels down.

1850 F. E. Smedley Frank Fairlegh li. 449 A picturesque donkey, whose fore-feet being fastened together by..‘hobbles’, advanced by a series of jumps.

1901 M. Franklin My Brilliant Career ix. 74 The sound of camp-bells and jingle of hobble chains..had come to these men.

1928 ‘Brent of Bin Bin’ Up Country xv. 272 He remembered the hobble-chains behind the old stable.

1959 Listener 15 Jan. 113/1 In a brawl, they're deadly. Anything goes—spurs, hobble chains, the lot.

4. In full hobble-skirt. A close-fitting skirt usually confined by a wide band below the knees and above the ankles.

ΘΚΠ

the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for body or trunk (and limbs) > [noun] > clothing for lower body > skirt > types of > close-fitting

tunnel skirt1870

sheath1904

hobble1911

slit skirt1913

tube skirt1948

1911 Smart Set Mar. 40 A hobble skirt is an awful habit to get into.

1912 Punch 3 Apr. 255/1 The continued success of the hobble..has..restricted the use of textile material.

1918 Wireless World Oct. 372 A feminine atrocity in a cerise muslin sheath on ‘hobble-skirt’ lines.

1920 M. Asquith Autobiogr. I. 221 From the hoop to the hobble is not a more violent change than from the riding-hats of 1894 to the riding-hats of 1917.

1921 C. Torr Small Talk at Wreyland ii. 69 I said, ‘You don't go in for hobble-skirts, I see.’

1969 H. E. Bates Vanished World vii. 71 Ladies in flowered hats and hobble skirts.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

hobblev.

/ˈhɒb(ə)l/

Forms: Also Middle English hobelen, Middle English–1700s hoble, Middle English hobyll, 1500s hobbil, hobbyll.

Etymology: Recorded from 14th cent.: apparently cognate with Dutch hobbelen ‘to toss, rock from side to side, ride on a hobby-horse, halt, stammer, stutter’, which appears in Teuthonista 1475 as a synonym of wyntelen , ‘hoblen, volutare, volvere’, and is taken as diminutive of hobben to toss or rock (as a boat on the billows): compare sense 1.Compare also High German dialect hoppeln, in Bavaria, to move up and down like a bad rider on a trotting horse, in Switzerland to make clownish jumps, also, to jolt, as a cart over stones, iterative of hoppen to hop, referred by some to an original *hobbôn, by-form of *hoppôn to hop (Paul & Br. Beitr. IX. 163). But both form- and sense-history offer many obscurities; in particular, it may be doubted whether some of the transitive senses really belong to the same word.

1. intransitive. To move unsteadily up and down in riding, floating, etc.; to rise and fall on the surge, as a boat; to rock from side to side, to wabble.

ΘΠ

the world > movement > motion in specific manner > irregular movement or agitation > unsteady movement > move unsteadily [verb (intransitive)]

hobblec1330

wave1406

stamperc1450

fleet15..

titubate1540

wamble1589

tilt1594

vacillate1598

waggle1611

wimple1819

wangle1820

waver1841

lurch1851

woggle1871

teeter1904

c1330 (?a1300) Sir Tristrem (1886) l. 1161 Tristremes schip was ȝare..Þe hauen he gan outfare..Niȝen woukes and mare He hobled vp and doun; A winde to wil him bare To..an hauen in irland.

1487 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (St. John's Cambr.) iv. 447 Thai..held thame thair so lang hobland, That of thre batis drownyt twa.

1545 R. Ascham Toxophilus ii. f. 18 Yf the shafte be lyght, it wyl starte, if it be heuye, it wil hoble.

a1605 A. Montgomerie Flyting with Polwart 279 On Alhallow euen, When our good nighbours doe ryd..Some hobland on ane hempstalke, hoveand to the hight.

1813–17 T. Cogan Ethical Questions Note B (R.) His hoop..If it hobbles in its motion, upon perfectly level ground, it cannot be a perfect circle.

a. To walk with an unsteady rising and falling gait, as one whose limbs give way under him; to walk lamely and with difficulty; to limp.

ΘΠ

the world > movement > progressive motion > walking > walk, tread, or step [verb (intransitive)] > unevenly

hobble1362

clockc1400

hirple?a1500

hitch1513

himp1533

cramble1607

himple1656

hoit1786

tolter1821

hippity-hoppity1830

clop1863

hippity hop1879

1362 W. Langland Piers Plowman A. i. 113 Out of heuene in-to helle hobleden faste.

c1394 P. Pl. Crede 106 We haunten none tauernes ne hobelen abouten; At marketts & myracles we medleþ vs nevere.

a1500 (a1460) Towneley Plays (1994) I. xvii. 204 Lo, so I hobyll all on held That vnethes may I walk for eld.

a1513 W. Dunbar Flyting in Poems (1998) I. 207 Vpoun thy botingis hobland, hard as horne.

1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 586/1 I hoble, or halte, or lomber, as a horse dothe.

1601 J. Marston et al. Iacke Drums Entertainm. i. sig. B Some old Beldame hobbling ore my graue.

1666 London Gaz. 3 Sept. Many cripples were seen hobbling about not knowing which way to go.

1728 J. Morgan Compl. Hist. Algiers I. iv. 99 In stony ways the poor creatures [camels] hobble very much.

1781 F. Burney Lett. 15 May I now hobble about the garden with a stick.

1871 L. Stephen Playground of Europe (1894) xiii The..old gentleman..now hobbles about on rheumatic joints.

b. To dance, to bob (with an implication of clumsiness or imperfection). Also transitive. [Compare the German dialect equivalents above.]

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > dancing > style or manner of dancing > [verb (intransitive)]

frisk?1520

hobble1535

caper1598

to cut a caper or capersa1616

to dance Barnaby1664

to dance low1667

jig1672

to fike and flinga1689

shuffle1819

slow-step1909

dingolay1935

touch-dance1972

headbang1977

to funk out1979

to strut one's funky stuff1979

krump2004

society > leisure > dancing > style or manner of dancing > [verb (transitive)]

walk1742

hobble1762

to walk through ——1824

traipse1835

1535 D. Lindsay Satyre 5624 Menstrell, blaw vp ane brawll of France; Let se quha hobbils best.

1712 E. Budgell Spectator No. 301. ¶1 The same Folly..makes Clodius, who was a celebrated Dancer at five and twenty, still love to hobble in a Minuet, tho' he is past Threescore.

1753 S. Foote Englishman in Paris ii. 37 I'll just hobble over a Minuet by way of Exercise.

1762 O. Goldsmith Citizen of World II. 57 At sixty [she] shall hobble a rigadoon when she can scarcely walk without a crutch.

3. figurative. To proceed irregularly and haltingly in action or speech; (of verse) to have an irregular or halting rhythm, to ‘limp’. Also transitive: to utter haltingly.

ΘΠ

the mind > language > speech > manner of speaking > speak in a particular manner [verb (intransitive)] > speak haltingly

hobblea1529

the mind > language > speech > manner of speaking > say in a particular manner [verb (transitive)] > haltingly or jerkily

hobblea1529

jerk1602

yark1604

the mind > language > speech > defective or inarticulate speech > speak inarticulately or with a defect [verb (intransitive)] > stammer or speak hesitantly

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stut1388

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falterc1440

stackerc1440

hem1470

wallowa1475

tattle1481

mant1506

happer1519

trip1526

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stagger1565

faffle1570

stutter1570

hem and hawk1588

ha1604

hammer1619

titubate1623

haw1632

fork1652

hacker1652

lispc1680

hesitate1706

balbutiate1731

haffle1790

hotter1828

stutter1831

ah1853

catch1889

the mind > language > speech > defective or inarticulate speech > utter inarticulately [verb (transitive)] > utter hesitantly or stammer

hem1553

mant1568

stammer1587

to hack out1602

stammer1608

fribblea1627

lisp1627

stutter1655

hesitate1734

to falter forth or out1762

hobble1813

falter1851

a1529 J. Skelton Why come ye nat to Courte (?1545) 523 His Latyne tonge dothe hobbyll, He doth but cloute and cobbill In Tullis faculte.

a1568 R. Ascham Scholemaster (1570) ii. f. 60^v Carmen Exametrum doth rather trotte and hoble, than runne smothly in our English tong.

1645 J. Milton Colasterion 6 His first Argument, all but what hobbles to no purpos is this.

1718 M. Prior Alma i, in Poems Several Occasions (new ed.) 325 While You Pindaric Truths rehearse; She hobbles in Alternate Verse.

1813 J. C. Hobhouse Journey (ed. 2) 1000 The Caimacam..proceeded to speak to the Ambassador, but hobbled repeatedly, and was prompted..by the Grand Signior.

1813 J. C. Hobhouse Journey (ed. 2) 1001 The Caimacam..began hobbling another speech.

1827 G. Canning Poet. Wks. 33 When his speeches hobble vilely, How ‘Hear him!’ bursts from brother Hiley.

4. transitive. To embarrass, perplex, foil, nonplus: in Scottish habble.

ΘΠ

the mind > mental capacity > belief > uncertainty, doubt, hesitation > perplexity, bewilderment > act of perplexing > confuse, perplex, bewilder [verb (transitive)] > nonplus

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set1577

trump1586

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nonplus1605

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quandary1681

bamboozle1712

hobble1762

stump1807

have1816

floor1830

flummox1837

stick1851

get1868

to stick up1897

buffalo1903

1762 O. Goldsmith Citizen of World II. 220 I could give no account of my self, (that was the thing that always hobbled me).

a1823 in Ld. Byron Juan xi. xix. (note) You'll be hobbled in making a Clout.

1825 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Suppl. Habble, to confuse, or reduce to a state of perplexity... To be Habbled, to be perplexed or nonplussed, to be foiled in any undertaking.

5. slang. To take into custody, ‘nab’.

ΘΚΠ

society > law > administration of justice > general proceedings > arrest > [verb (transitive)]

at-holda1230

attacha1325

resta1325

takec1330

arrest1393

restay?a1400

tachec1400

seisinc1425

to take upa1438

stowc1450

seize1471

to lay (also set, clap, etc.) (a person) by the heels?1515

deprehend1532

apprehend1548

nipa1566

upsnatcha1566

finger1572

to make stay of1572

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cap1590

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embar1647

nap1665

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bone1699

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do1784

touch1785

pinch1789

to pull up1799

grab1800

nick1806

pull1811

hobble1819

nail1823

nipper1823

bag1824

lag1847

tap1859

snaffle1860

to put the collar on1865

copper1872

to take in1878

lumber1882

to pick up1887

to pull in1893

lift1923

drag1924

to knock off1926

to put the sleeve on1930

bust1940

pop1960

vamp1970

1819 J. H. Vaux New Vocab. Flash Lang. in Memoirs II. 180 Hobbled, taken up, or in custody.

6. To cause to hobble or limp. literal and figurative.

ΘΚΠ

the world > movement > progressive motion > walking > walk upon or tread [verb (transitive)] > cause to hobble or limp

hobble1870

society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > versification > metre > put into metre [verb (transitive)] > cause metre to proceed lamely

hobble1870

1870 J. R. Lowell My Study Windows (1886) 243 Sometimes they thrust in a word or words that hobble the verse.

1897 M. Kingsley Trav. W. Afr. 109 On his feet are a pair of ammunition boots that fairly hobble him.

7. To tie or fasten together the legs of (a horse or other beast) to prevent it from straying, kicking, etc. [In this sense hopple n. occurs earlier.]

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > general equipment > [verb (transitive)] > hobble

warlocka1400

langlec1440

hopple1586

impester1601

trammel1607

wisp1607

spancel1610

side-hankle1627

sidelanga1642

sidelangle1660

side-span1660

hamshackle1802

hobble1804

twitchel1826

sideline1837

span1847

heel1887

1804 L. Dow Trav. in Wks. (1806) II. 62 We..hobbled the fore legs of our horses together.

1831 R. Cox Adventures Columbia River I. 155 (note) Their two fore legs were tied together. This we called hobbling.

1835 W. Irving Tour on Prairies xi, in Crayon Misc. I. 79 The horses were now hobbled, that is to say, their fore legs were fettered with cords or leathern straps.

1835 J. P. Kennedy Horse-shoe Robinson (1860) xvii. 206 The horses were hobbled, by a cord from the fore to the hind foot.

1892 E. Reeves Homeward Bound 211 Hundreds of cattle lying down, their fore legs hobbled with rope.

Derivatives

hobbled adj. (in sense 7).

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > general equipment > [adjective] > hobbled

unpegged1655

spancelled1835

knee-haltered1849

hobbled1860

1860 C. Dickens Uncommerc. Traveller in All Year Round 16 June 234/1 What tramp children do I see here..making a toy of the hobbled old horse..!

1878 M. E. Braddon Open Verdict xlv. 302 [She] had hung upon him like a log on a hobbled donkey.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	hobble
释义	hobblen. /ˈhɒb(ə)l/ Etymology: < hobble v. 1. The action of hobbling; an uneven, clumsy, infirm gait, with sinking and rising of the body. Also figurative of utterance. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > progressive motion > walking > [noun] > manner of walking > uneven or clumsy hobble1726 hirple1830 1726 J. Swift Gulliver I. i. iv. 72 We can plainly discover one of his Heels higher than the other, which gives him a Hobble in his Gait. 1750 Ld. Chesterfield Let. 9 July (1932) (modernized text) IV. 1562 There is still a considerable hitch or hobble in your enunciation. 1871 C. Gibbon For Lack of Gold I. i. 3 His pace was a species of hobble. 1874 J. G. Wood Out of Doors 7 The walk of the Orangoutan is little better than an awkward hobble. 2. figurative. An awkward or perplexing situation from which extrication is difficult. dialect and colloquial. In Scottish habble: a difficulty, a perplexity. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > difficulty > [noun] > difficult state of things > predicament or straits > from which it is difficult to be extricated pounda1500 quavemire1530 fang1535 quamire1555 pit1577 quagmire1577 bog1614 hobble1775 vortex1779 quag1842 1775 J. Ash New Dict. Eng. Lang. Hobble,..a kind of blunder. a1777 S. Foote Capuchin (1778) ii. 111 Take care what you say! you see what a hobble we had like to have got into. 1799 G. Washington Let. in Writings (1893) XIV. 193 I think you Wise men of the East, have got yourselves in a hobble. 1807 R. Tannahill Soldier's Return 41 (Jam.) Else, like the hero of our fable, We'll oft be plunged into a habble. 1820 Ld. Byron Blues i. 64 Pray get out of this hobble as fast as you can. 1866 Sat. Rev. 10 Nov. 575 We had got into such a hobble, there really seemed no way out of it save by betaking ourselves to spiritual weapons. 3. A rope, strap, clog, or other apparatus used for hobbling a horse or other beast (see hobble v. 7); transferred a fetter; = hopple n. 1 (Usually in plural). Also (chiefly Australian) hobble chain. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > general equipment > [noun] > hobble or fetter cubbelc1230 pastern1284 lock1384 langle1394 spannel1398 warlockc1440 curb1477 hough-band1568 foot widdy1569 curble1598 spancel1610 hopple1641 twitchel1689 collaring1692 hobble1744 sideline1803 hog-tie1902 pigging-string1924 1744 F. Moore Voy. Georgia 147 Two horses tied with hobbles. 1797 F. Baily Jrnl. Tour N. Amer. (1856) 336 Our horses would seldom or never stray..; however, we always took the precaution of putting hobbles on their feet. 1804 L. Dow Trav. in Wks. (1806) II. 63 [Crossing a stream] I lost my hobbles. 1831 W. Youatt Horse vii. 111 The horse is cast and secured, and the limb..removed from the hobbles and extended. 1842–4 H. Stephens Bk. of Farm (1849) I. 525/1 The hobbles are then placed on the hind fetlocks [of the cow] to keep the heels down. 1850 F. E. Smedley Frank Fairlegh li. 449 A picturesque donkey, whose fore-feet being fastened together by..‘hobbles’, advanced by a series of jumps. 1901 M. Franklin My Brilliant Career ix. 74 The sound of camp-bells and jingle of hobble chains..had come to these men. 1928 ‘Brent of Bin Bin’ Up Country xv. 272 He remembered the hobble-chains behind the old stable. 1959 Listener 15 Jan. 113/1 In a brawl, they're deadly. Anything goes—spurs, hobble chains, the lot. 4. In full hobble-skirt. A close-fitting skirt usually confined by a wide band below the knees and above the ankles. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for body or trunk (and limbs) > [noun] > clothing for lower body > skirt > types of > close-fitting tunnel skirt1870 sheath1904 hobble1911 slit skirt1913 tube skirt1948 1911 Smart Set Mar. 40 A hobble skirt is an awful habit to get into. 1912 Punch 3 Apr. 255/1 The continued success of the hobble..has..restricted the use of textile material. 1918 Wireless World Oct. 372 A feminine atrocity in a cerise muslin sheath on ‘hobble-skirt’ lines. 1920 M. Asquith Autobiogr. I. 221 From the hoop to the hobble is not a more violent change than from the riding-hats of 1894 to the riding-hats of 1917. 1921 C. Torr Small Talk at Wreyland ii. 69 I said, ‘You don't go in for hobble-skirts, I see.’ 1969 H. E. Bates Vanished World vii. 71 Ladies in flowered hats and hobble skirts. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online June 2022). hobblev. /ˈhɒb(ə)l/ Forms: Also Middle English hobelen, Middle English–1700s hoble, Middle English hobyll, 1500s hobbil, hobbyll. Etymology: Recorded from 14th cent.: apparently cognate with Dutch hobbelen ‘to toss, rock from side to side, ride on a hobby-horse, halt, stammer, stutter’, which appears in Teuthonista 1475 as a synonym of wyntelen , ‘hoblen, volutare, volvere’, and is taken as diminutive of hobben to toss or rock (as a boat on the billows): compare sense 1.Compare also High German dialect hoppeln, in Bavaria, to move up and down like a bad rider on a trotting horse, in Switzerland to make clownish jumps, also, to jolt, as a cart over stones, iterative of hoppen to hop, referred by some to an original hobbôn, by-form of hoppôn to hop (Paul & Br. Beitr. IX. 163). But both form- and sense-history offer many obscurities; in particular, it may be doubted whether some of the transitive senses really belong to the same word. 1. intransitive. To move unsteadily up and down in riding, floating, etc.; to rise and fall on the surge, as a boat; to rock from side to side, to wabble. ΘΠ the world > movement > motion in specific manner > irregular movement or agitation > unsteady movement > move unsteadily [verb (intransitive)] hobblec1330 wave1406 stamperc1450 fleet15.. titubate1540 wamble1589 tilt1594 vacillate1598 waggle1611 wimple1819 wangle1820 waver1841 lurch1851 woggle1871 teeter1904 c1330 (?a1300) Sir Tristrem (1886) l. 1161 Tristremes schip was ȝare..Þe hauen he gan outfare..Niȝen woukes and mare He hobled vp and doun; A winde to wil him bare To..an hauen in irland. 1487 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (St. John's Cambr.) iv. 447 Thai..held thame thair so lang hobland, That of thre batis drownyt twa. 1545 R. Ascham Toxophilus ii. f. 18 Yf the shafte be lyght, it wyl starte, if it be heuye, it wil hoble. a1605 A. Montgomerie Flyting with Polwart 279 On Alhallow euen, When our good nighbours doe ryd..Some hobland on ane hempstalke, hoveand to the hight. 1813–17 T. Cogan Ethical Questions Note B (R.) His hoop..If it hobbles in its motion, upon perfectly level ground, it cannot be a perfect circle. 2. a. To walk with an unsteady rising and falling gait, as one whose limbs give way under him; to walk lamely and with difficulty; to limp. ΘΠ the world > movement > progressive motion > walking > walk, tread, or step [verb (intransitive)] > unevenly hobble1362 clockc1400 hirple?a1500 hitch1513 himp1533 cramble1607 himple1656 hoit1786 tolter1821 hippity-hoppity1830 clop1863 hippity hop1879 1362 W. Langland Piers Plowman A. i. 113 Out of heuene in-to helle hobleden faste. c1394 P. Pl. Crede 106 We haunten none tauernes ne hobelen abouten; At marketts & myracles we medleþ vs nevere. a1500 (a1460) Towneley Plays (1994) I. xvii. 204 Lo, so I hobyll all on held That vnethes may I walk for eld. a1513 W. Dunbar Flyting in Poems (1998) I. 207 Vpoun thy botingis hobland, hard as horne. 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 586/1 I hoble, or halte, or lomber, as a horse dothe. 1601 J. Marston et al. Iacke Drums Entertainm. i. sig. B Some old Beldame hobbling ore my graue. 1666 London Gaz. 3 Sept. Many cripples were seen hobbling about not knowing which way to go. 1728 J. Morgan Compl. Hist. Algiers I. iv. 99 In stony ways the poor creatures [camels] hobble very much. 1781 F. Burney Lett. 15 May I now hobble about the garden with a stick. 1871 L. Stephen Playground of Europe (1894) xiii The..old gentleman..now hobbles about on rheumatic joints. b. To dance, to bob (with an implication of clumsiness or imperfection). Also transitive. [Compare the German dialect equivalents above.] ΘΚΠ society > leisure > dancing > style or manner of dancing > [verb (intransitive)] frisk?1520 hobble1535 caper1598 to cut a caper or capersa1616 to dance Barnaby1664 to dance low1667 jig1672 to fike and flinga1689 shuffle1819 slow-step1909 dingolay1935 touch-dance1972 headbang1977 to funk out1979 to strut one's funky stuff1979 krump2004 society > leisure > dancing > style or manner of dancing > [verb (transitive)] walk1742 hobble1762 to walk through ——1824 traipse1835 1535 D. Lindsay Satyre 5624 Menstrell, blaw vp ane brawll of France; Let se quha hobbils best. 1712 E. Budgell Spectator No. 301. ¶1 The same Folly..makes Clodius, who was a celebrated Dancer at five and twenty, still love to hobble in a Minuet, tho' he is past Threescore. 1753 S. Foote Englishman in Paris ii. 37 I'll just hobble over a Minuet by way of Exercise. 1762 O. Goldsmith Citizen of World II. 57 At sixty [she] shall hobble a rigadoon when she can scarcely walk without a crutch. 3. figurative. To proceed irregularly and haltingly in action or speech; (of verse) to have an irregular or halting rhythm, to ‘limp’. Also transitive: to utter haltingly. ΘΠ the mind > language > speech > manner of speaking > speak in a particular manner [verb (intransitive)] > speak haltingly hobblea1529 the mind > language > speech > manner of speaking > say in a particular manner [verb (transitive)] > haltingly or jerkily hobblea1529 jerk1602 yark1604 the mind > language > speech > defective or inarticulate speech > speak inarticulately or with a defect [verb (intransitive)] > stammer or speak hesitantly stammerc1000 wlaffe1025 stotec1325 humc1374 mafflea1387 stut1388 rattlea1398 famble14.. mammera1425 drotec1440 falterc1440 stackerc1440 hem1470 wallowa1475 tattle1481 mant1506 happer1519 trip1526 hobblea1529 hack1553 stagger1565 faffle1570 stutter1570 hem and hawk1588 ha1604 hammer1619 titubate1623 haw1632 fork1652 hacker1652 lispc1680 hesitate1706 balbutiate1731 haffle1790 hotter1828 stutter1831 ah1853 catch1889 the mind > language > speech > defective or inarticulate speech > utter inarticulately [verb (transitive)] > utter hesitantly or stammer hem1553 mant1568 stammer1587 to hack out1602 stammer1608 fribblea1627 lisp1627 stutter1655 hesitate1734 to falter forth or out1762 hobble1813 falter1851 a1529 J. Skelton Why come ye nat to Courte (?1545) 523 His Latyne tonge dothe hobbyll, He doth but cloute and cobbill In Tullis faculte. a1568 R. Ascham Scholemaster (1570) ii. f. 60^v Carmen Exametrum doth rather trotte and hoble, than runne smothly in our English tong. 1645 J. Milton Colasterion 6 His first Argument, all but what hobbles to no purpos is this. 1718 M. Prior Alma i, in Poems Several Occasions (new ed.) 325 While You Pindaric Truths rehearse; She hobbles in Alternate Verse. 1813 J. C. Hobhouse Journey (ed. 2) 1000 The Caimacam..proceeded to speak to the Ambassador, but hobbled repeatedly, and was prompted..by the Grand Signior. 1813 J. C. Hobhouse Journey (ed. 2) 1001 The Caimacam..began hobbling another speech. 1827 G. Canning Poet. Wks. 33 When his speeches hobble vilely, How ‘Hear him!’ bursts from brother Hiley. 4. transitive. To embarrass, perplex, foil, nonplus: in Scottish habble. ΘΠ the mind > mental capacity > belief > uncertainty, doubt, hesitation > perplexity, bewilderment > act of perplexing > confuse, perplex, bewilder [verb (transitive)] > nonplus stagger1556 gravel1566 set1577 trump1586 bumbaze1587 puzzlec1595 ground1597 stunt1603 nonplus1605 pose1605 stumble1605 buzzard1624 quandary1681 bamboozle1712 hobble1762 stump1807 have1816 floor1830 flummox1837 stick1851 get1868 to stick up1897 buffalo1903 1762 O. Goldsmith Citizen of World II. 220 I could give no account of my self, (that was the thing that always hobbled me). a1823 in Ld. Byron Juan xi. xix. (note) You'll be hobbled in making a Clout. 1825 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Suppl. Habble, to confuse, or reduce to a state of perplexity... To be Habbled, to be perplexed or nonplussed, to be foiled in any undertaking. 5. slang. To take into custody, ‘nab’. ΘΚΠ society > law > administration of justice > general proceedings > arrest > [verb (transitive)] at-holda1230 attacha1325 resta1325 takec1330 arrest1393 restay?a1400 tachec1400 seisinc1425 to take upa1438 stowc1450 seize1471 to lay (also set, clap, etc.) (a person) by the heels?1515 deprehend1532 apprehend1548 nipa1566 upsnatcha1566 finger1572 to make stay of1572 embarge1585 cap1590 reprehend1598 prehenda1605 embar1647 nap1665 nab1686 bone1699 roast1699 do1784 touch1785 pinch1789 to pull up1799 grab1800 nick1806 pull1811 hobble1819 nail1823 nipper1823 bag1824 lag1847 tap1859 snaffle1860 to put the collar on1865 copper1872 to take in1878 lumber1882 to pick up1887 to pull in1893 lift1923 drag1924 to knock off1926 to put the sleeve on1930 bust1940 pop1960 vamp1970 1819 J. H. Vaux New Vocab. Flash Lang. in Memoirs II. 180 Hobbled, taken up, or in custody. 6. To cause to hobble or limp. literal and figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > progressive motion > walking > walk upon or tread [verb (transitive)] > cause to hobble or limp hobble1870 society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > versification > metre > put into metre [verb (transitive)] > cause metre to proceed lamely hobble1870 1870 J. R. Lowell My Study Windows (1886) 243 Sometimes they thrust in a word or words that hobble the verse. 1897 M. Kingsley Trav. W. Afr. 109 On his feet are a pair of ammunition boots that fairly hobble him. 7. To tie or fasten together the legs of (a horse or other beast) to prevent it from straying, kicking, etc. [In this sense hopple n. occurs earlier.] ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > general equipment > [verb (transitive)] > hobble warlocka1400 langlec1440 hopple1586 impester1601 trammel1607 wisp1607 spancel1610 side-hankle1627 sidelanga1642 sidelangle1660 side-span1660 hamshackle1802 hobble1804 twitchel1826 sideline1837 span1847 heel1887 1804 L. Dow Trav. in Wks. (1806) II. 62 We..hobbled the fore legs of our horses together. 1831 R. Cox Adventures Columbia River I. 155 (note) Their two fore legs were tied together. This we called hobbling. 1835 W. Irving Tour on Prairies xi, in Crayon Misc. I. 79 The horses were now hobbled, that is to say, their fore legs were fettered with cords or leathern straps. 1835 J. P. Kennedy Horse-shoe Robinson (1860) xvii. 206 The horses were hobbled, by a cord from the fore to the hind foot. 1892 E. Reeves Homeward Bound 211 Hundreds of cattle lying down, their fore legs hobbled with rope. Derivatives hobbled adj. (in sense 7). ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > general equipment > [adjective] > hobbled unpegged1655 spancelled1835 knee-haltered1849 hobbled1860 1860 C. Dickens Uncommerc. Traveller in All Year Round 16 June 234/1 What tramp children do I see here..making a toy of the hobbled old horse..! 1878 M. E. Braddon Open Verdict xlv. 302 [She] had hung upon him like a log on a hobbled donkey. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1726v.c1330
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