† trip-and-gotrip-gon.
Obsolete.
The action of tripping and going; one who trips and goes, or who uses this expression.
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trip-and-go1532
trip1585
tripping1594
trippingness1827
patting1860
skitter1959
1532 T. More Confut. Tyndale in Wks. 685/2 [Water] receiueth shortly the steppes of euery man, yea and of euery woman to, but she gete her on a pace, with trip and go quikly and walke wonderous light.
1601 A. Munday & H. Chettle Death Earle of Huntington sig. K1 Should any of these no forsooths, These pray awayes, these trip and goes, these tits, Deny mee.
1611 ‘G. Vadianus’ in T. Coryate Crudities sig. h2 So nimble Tom, the traueller Trip-goe.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1915; most recently modified version published online March 2021).
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n.1532- to sit in formerly at judgement
- to sit in judgement
- to sit in one's own light
- to sit in wait
- to sit in waits
- to sit light
- to strike dead
- to strike dead, blind
- to strike dead, blind, deaf, dumb
- to strike dead, dumb
- to strike dead, to death
- to strike dead, to the death
- to strike down
- to strike dump
- to strike fire
- to strike flag
- to strike forward, out
- to strike gold
- to strike ground
- to strike hands
- to strike hearts
- to strike home
- to strike in
- to strike in the boots
- to strike in the eye