trippingn.

/ˈtrɪpɪŋ/

Etymology: < trip v. + -ing suffix¹.

a. The action of trip v. in transitive senses.

ΘΚΠ

the world > movement > progressive motion > walking > [noun] > manner of walking > stumbling > act of causing

trippet1430

tripping1591

1591 R. Percyvall Bibliotheca Hispanica Dict. at Traspie Tripping, supplantatio.

1601 Breton (title) No Whippinge, nor Trippinge: but a kinde friendly Snippinge.

1796 Brooke's Fool of Quality (rev. ed.) I. ix. 223 The mysteries of bruising, of wrestling, and of tripping.

1862 Internat. Exhib.: Illustr. Catal. Industr. Dept. II. xii. §2789 Martin's patent anchor..easy tripping and fishing, great lightness.

1880 Times 12 Nov. 4/4 It was only lately that Rugby school abandoned the ‘hacking’ and ‘tripping’ which made football dreaded by anxious mothers.

b. spec. in Botany: see sense 15 of the verb.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > farming > gardening > management of plants > propagation of plants > [noun] > fertilization or pollination

masculation1855

pollinization1871

pollination1873

tripping1909

1909 Bull. Bureau Plant Industry, U.S. Dept. Agric. No. 24. 8 If fertile seed is to be produced in any quantity it is necessary that a certain explosive mechanism within the flower be released. The release of this mechanism, whether it be accomplished by insects or otherwise, is popularly called ‘tripping’.

1930 Jrnl. Amer. Soc. Agronomy 22 782 When the flowers were left exposed and not tripped artificially the gain was 1:1·7 in favor of artificial tripping.

1978 Nature 7 Sept. 54/2 In artificial field bean pollination, manual tripping of open flowers is a recommended practice for increasing seed set in auto~sterile lines.

a. The action of trip v. in transitive senses. Also tripping up; in quot. 1857 spec. the curvature of a boat's keel.

ΘΚΠ

the world > movement > progressive motion > walking > [noun] > manner of walking > light

trip-and-go1532

trip1585

tripping1594

trippingness1827

patting1860

skitter1959

the world > movement > progressive motion > walking > [noun] > manner of walking > stumbling

stumblinga1400

snappering1591

tripping1594

stumble1641

cespitation1654

the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > disregard for truth, falsehood > lack of truth, falsity > [noun] > action of erring

mistakinga1400

forvayingc1430

faultingc1450

erring1483

tripping1594

stumble1641

society > travel > [noun] > travelling for pleasure > go on a short trip > going on short trip

jauntinga1627

tripping1840

excursionizing1881

society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > outing or excursion > [noun] > making

tripping1840

excursionizing1881

the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > disregard for truth, falsehood > inaccuracy, inexactness > incorrectness of language > [noun] > incorrect speech > slip of the tongue

lapse1526

lapsus linguae1668

a slip of the tongue1725

tripping1894

tongue-slip1913

1594 T. Nashe Terrors of Night in Wks. (Grosart) III. 273 Their daintie feete in their tender birdlike trippings, enameld (as it were) the dustie ground.

1603 P. Holland tr. Plutarch Morals 1072 Answeres and oracles as touching..the tripping and stumbling of the foot.

1693 Apol. Clergy Scotl. 14 [They] are very glad when they can discover the trippings of their Adversaries.

1733 S. Knight Let. 24 Mar. in Bibliotheca Topographica Britannica No. 2 (1781) ii. 167 It is very easy to discover his trippings.

1828 T. Carlyle Goethe's Helena in Foreign Rev. 1 464 We cannot follow him through these fine warblings and trippings on the light fantastic toe.

1840 T. Hood Up Rhine 34 Tripping up the Rhine, instead of taking my place at Woodlands.

1850 E. B. Denison Rudimentary Treat. Clock & Watch Making i. liv. 77 The hook at the end of the slope will not catch the tooth as it ought to do, and two or three teeth will slip past at once: this is called tripping.

1857 P. M. Colquhoun Compan. Oarsman's Guide 31 Shear is the rising of the gunwale of a boat towards head and stern; gamber is the same on the keel; otherwise called tripping up.

1879 Cassell's Techn. Educator (new ed.) IV. 371/1 This error called ‘tripping’, is also produced if there is much space between the detent and the wheel.

1894 Forum (N.Y.) Oct. 158 Slips, hesitations, and tripping in speech, which, once made, could never be recalled.

b. spec. of drug-induced hallucinations: see 5b of the verb.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > effects of drugs > [noun] > effects of hallucinatory drugs

trip1959

freaking-out1965

acid trip1966

freak-out1966

head trip1967

tripping1968

turn-on1969

trippiness1976

1968 L. W. Robinson Assassin xii. 128 Their passion was a long one..as though they hated to come back..from the rocking, tossing, sweet trip... But no, the sweet tripping was not over.

1970 K. Platt Pushbutton Butterfly vi. 59 The girls weren't wearing brassieres... The skinnier ones just looked flat. Tripping didn't solve everything.

1980 Times Lit. Suppl. 24 Oct. 1203/4 When Christiane F. was thirteen years old, she began to frequent a youth club run by the Protestant Church in an overcrowded district of West Berlin. There she started smoking hashish, taking ‘uppers and downers’ and ‘tripping’ on LSD.

Compounds

attributive and in other combinations, as tripping-block; tripping-line n. Nautical a light line for tilting the yards (see trip v. 12); also, a line for manipulating a drogue. tripping string n. a line set by burglars to trip possible pursuers.

ΘΚΠ

society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > other equipment of vessel > [noun] > drogue > line for manipulating

tripping-line1841

society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > masts, rigging, or sails > rigging > [noun] > running rigging > for raising, lowering, topping, or tripping yard

martnet1582

tripping-line1841

snotter1846

yard-rope1850

the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > burglary > [noun] > instruments used by burglars > line to trip pursuers

tripping string1891

1620 T. Shelton tr. M. de Cervantes Don Quixote ii. iv. 26 What doe I know, whether..the Deuill hath set any tripping-blocke before me, where I may stumble and fall?

1841 R. H. Dana Seaman's Man. Tripping line, a line used for tripping a topgallant or royal yard in sending it down.

1882 G. S. Nares Seamanship (ed. 6) 260 Drogues..are towed..mouth foremost by a stout rope, a small line termed a tripping-line, being fastened to the apex.

1891 Daily News 31 Dec. 4/7 The doors..having first been securely fastened..and tripping strings having been stretched across the pathways and lawn.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1915; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

trippingadj.

Etymology: < trip v. + -ing suffix².Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈtripping.

That trips, in various senses.

1. Moving quickly and lightly; light-footed; nimble. Also figurative.

ΘΚΠ

the world > movement > progressive motion > walking > [adjective] > having specific manner of walking > light-footed

lightOE

light-footeda1425

lightfoot1440

feather-footed1565

tripping1567

nimble-footed1592

soft-foot1598

light-heeled1600

soft-footed1603

soft-footed1607

nimble-heeled1656

quick-foot1658

feather-heeleda1674

tickle-heeled1740

nimble-stepping1832

tripsome1846

twinkle-toed1960

society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > elegance > [adjective] > moving lightly and quickly

winged1616

volant1650

airy1664

whisky1782

tripping1807

tripsome1890

1567 T. Drant tr. Horace Pistles in tr. Horace Arte of Poetrie sig. Ev Thou hast no trippinge trull To mince it with the now That thou mighst foote it vnto her.

1568 in J. Cranstoun Satirical Poems Reformation (1891) I. xlvi. 56 Thir tripand tyddis may tyne ws aw.

1684 J. Bunyan Pilgrim's Progress 2nd Pt. Authors Way sig. A5^v When little Tripping Maidens follow God, And leave old doting Sinners to his Rod.

a1721 M. Prior Turtle & Sparrow (1723) 37 The tripping Fauns and Fairies came.

1807 W. Scott Let. 1 Oct. (1932) I. 387 A tripping Alexandrine stanza.

1851 D. Jerrold St. Giles & St. James (new ed.) i, in Writings I. 2 A quick, tripping footstep sounds in the deserted street.

1880 Ld. Acton Lett. to Gladstone (1904) 6 You will find his conversation, easy and tripping as it is, very inferior to his writings.

2. Stumbling, erring, sinning.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > goodness and badness > wrongdoing > erring > [adjective]

scrithingOE

aberrantc1536

tripping1577

devious1633

sinuous1850

society > morality > moral evil > wrong conduct > [adjective] > lapsing or lapsed

tripping1577

delapsed1622

lapsed1638

lapsing1667

the world > movement > progressive motion > walking > [adjective] > having specific manner of walking > stumbling

stumbling1538

tripping1577

snappering1596

stumbly1890

the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > disregard for truth, falsehood > lack of truth, falsity > an error, mistake > [adjective]

erringa1340

overseena1393

willa1400

out of one's book (also books)1549

straying1553

faulting1566

deceived1569

seek1569

tripping1577

amiss1582

mistaking1582

naught1597

errant1609

solecistical1654

solecismical1656

wrong1695

solecistic1865

1577 tr. Eusebius in H. I. tr. H. Bullinger 50 Godlie Serm. II. iii. iii. sig. Cc.viii^v/1 The Lorde beginneth..with the bridle to checke the mouth of his tripping church.

1580 C. Hollyband Treasurie French Tong Chevaux qui brunchent, stumbling or tripping Iades.

1646 T. Gataker Mistake Removed 31 The tripping toung sometimes tels truth.

1703 N. Rowe Fair Penitent Epil. The tripping Dame cou'd find no Favour.

1903 G. Matheson Representative Men of Bible 2nd Ser. 287 Where the tripping are trodden down, where the weak are weeded out by the strong.

3. Heraldry. Of a buck, stag, etc.: Walking, and looking toward the dexter side, with three paws on the ground and one fore-paw raised; the same as passant of other animals. tripping-counter = counter-trippant adj.

ΘΚΠ

society > communication > indication > insignia > heraldic devices collective > heraldic representations of creatures > [adjective] > specific movements of heraldic beasts > of buck, stag, or hind

tripping1562

counter-tripping1610

trippant1658

counter-trippant1830

1562 G. Legh Accedens of Armory 90 b An Vnicorne trippyng, Sable.

1610 J. Guillim Display of Heraldrie iii. xiv. 131 He beareth Azure, three Buckes tripping.

c1828 W. Berry Encycl. Her. I. Gloss. Tripping-counter, or counter-trippant, is when two bucks, &c. are borne trippant contraryways, as if passing each other out of the field.

1863 C. Boutell Man. Heraldry xi. 64 Stags,..when in easy motion, they are tripping.

1870 D. Rock Textile Fabrics (S. Kensington Mus.) 40 Two giraffes, with one leg raised—may be better described as tripping.

4. In names of mechanical appliances that trip or are tripped (cf. trip v. 14); as tripping-coil, tripping-lever, tripping-relay ( Cent. Dict., Suppl. 1909); tripping-valve n. see quot. 1877.

ΚΠ

1877 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Tripping-valve, one moved recurrently by the contact of some other part of the machinery.

Derivatives

ˈtrippingness n.

ΘΚΠ

the world > movement > progressive motion > walking > [noun] > manner of walking > light

trip-and-go1532

trip1585

tripping1594

trippingness1827

patting1860

skitter1959

society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > singing > singing voice > [noun] > voice qualities

trippingness1827

veil1861

mezza voce1877

1827 Examiner 738/1 Too much of trippingness in the walk.

1890 F. Murfree Felicia xi The basso could not forgive the soprano for the trippingness of her execution.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1915; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	tripping
释义	trippingn. /ˈtrɪpɪŋ/ Etymology: < trip v. + -ing suffix¹. 1. a. The action of trip v. in transitive senses. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > progressive motion > walking > [noun] > manner of walking > stumbling > act of causing trippet1430 tripping1591 1591 R. Percyvall Bibliotheca Hispanica Dict. at Traspie Tripping, supplantatio. 1601 Breton (title) No Whippinge, nor Trippinge: but a kinde friendly Snippinge. 1796 Brooke's Fool of Quality (rev. ed.) I. ix. 223 The mysteries of bruising, of wrestling, and of tripping. 1862 Internat. Exhib.: Illustr. Catal. Industr. Dept. II. xii. §2789 Martin's patent anchor..easy tripping and fishing, great lightness. 1880 Times 12 Nov. 4/4 It was only lately that Rugby school abandoned the ‘hacking’ and ‘tripping’ which made football dreaded by anxious mothers. b. spec. in Botany: see sense 15 of the verb. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > gardening > management of plants > propagation of plants > [noun] > fertilization or pollination masculation1855 pollinization1871 pollination1873 tripping1909 1909 Bull. Bureau Plant Industry, U.S. Dept. Agric. No. 24. 8 If fertile seed is to be produced in any quantity it is necessary that a certain explosive mechanism within the flower be released. The release of this mechanism, whether it be accomplished by insects or otherwise, is popularly called ‘tripping’. 1930 Jrnl. Amer. Soc. Agronomy 22 782 When the flowers were left exposed and not tripped artificially the gain was 1:1·7 in favor of artificial tripping. 1978 Nature 7 Sept. 54/2 In artificial field bean pollination, manual tripping of open flowers is a recommended practice for increasing seed set in auto~sterile lines. 2. a. The action of trip v. in transitive senses. Also tripping up; in quot. 1857 spec. the curvature of a boat's keel. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > progressive motion > walking > [noun] > manner of walking > light trip-and-go1532 trip1585 tripping1594 trippingness1827 patting1860 skitter1959 the world > movement > progressive motion > walking > [noun] > manner of walking > stumbling stumblinga1400 snappering1591 tripping1594 stumble1641 cespitation1654 the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > disregard for truth, falsehood > lack of truth, falsity > [noun] > action of erring mistakinga1400 forvayingc1430 faultingc1450 erring1483 tripping1594 stumble1641 society > travel > [noun] > travelling for pleasure > go on a short trip > going on short trip jauntinga1627 tripping1840 excursionizing1881 society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > outing or excursion > [noun] > making tripping1840 excursionizing1881 the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > disregard for truth, falsehood > inaccuracy, inexactness > incorrectness of language > [noun] > incorrect speech > slip of the tongue lapse1526 lapsus linguae1668 a slip of the tongue1725 tripping1894 tongue-slip1913 1594 T. Nashe Terrors of Night in Wks. (Grosart) III. 273 Their daintie feete in their tender birdlike trippings, enameld (as it were) the dustie ground. 1603 P. Holland tr. Plutarch Morals 1072 Answeres and oracles as touching..the tripping and stumbling of the foot. 1693 Apol. Clergy Scotl. 14 [They] are very glad when they can discover the trippings of their Adversaries. 1733 S. Knight Let. 24 Mar. in Bibliotheca Topographica Britannica No. 2 (1781) ii. 167 It is very easy to discover his trippings. 1828 T. Carlyle Goethe's Helena in Foreign Rev. 1 464 We cannot follow him through these fine warblings and trippings on the light fantastic toe. 1840 T. Hood Up Rhine 34 Tripping up the Rhine, instead of taking my place at Woodlands. 1850 E. B. Denison Rudimentary Treat. Clock & Watch Making i. liv. 77 The hook at the end of the slope will not catch the tooth as it ought to do, and two or three teeth will slip past at once: this is called tripping. 1857 P. M. Colquhoun Compan. Oarsman's Guide 31 Shear is the rising of the gunwale of a boat towards head and stern; gamber is the same on the keel; otherwise called tripping up. 1879 Cassell's Techn. Educator (new ed.) IV. 371/1 This error called ‘tripping’, is also produced if there is much space between the detent and the wheel. 1894 Forum (N.Y.) Oct. 158 Slips, hesitations, and tripping in speech, which, once made, could never be recalled. b. spec. of drug-induced hallucinations: see 5b of the verb. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > effects of drugs > [noun] > effects of hallucinatory drugs trip1959 freaking-out1965 acid trip1966 freak-out1966 head trip1967 tripping1968 turn-on1969 trippiness1976 1968 L. W. Robinson Assassin xii. 128 Their passion was a long one..as though they hated to come back..from the rocking, tossing, sweet trip... But no, the sweet tripping was not over. 1970 K. Platt Pushbutton Butterfly vi. 59 The girls weren't wearing brassieres... The skinnier ones just looked flat. Tripping didn't solve everything. 1980 Times Lit. Suppl. 24 Oct. 1203/4 When Christiane F. was thirteen years old, she began to frequent a youth club run by the Protestant Church in an overcrowded district of West Berlin. There she started smoking hashish, taking ‘uppers and downers’ and ‘tripping’ on LSD. Compounds attributive and in other combinations, as tripping-block; tripping-line n. Nautical a light line for tilting the yards (see trip v. 12); also, a line for manipulating a drogue. tripping string n. a line set by burglars to trip possible pursuers. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > other equipment of vessel > [noun] > drogue > line for manipulating tripping-line1841 society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > masts, rigging, or sails > rigging > [noun] > running rigging > for raising, lowering, topping, or tripping yard martnet1582 tripping-line1841 snotter1846 yard-rope1850 the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > burglary > [noun] > instruments used by burglars > line to trip pursuers tripping string1891 1620 T. Shelton tr. M. de Cervantes Don Quixote ii. iv. 26 What doe I know, whether..the Deuill hath set any tripping-blocke before me, where I may stumble and fall? 1841 R. H. Dana Seaman's Man. Tripping line, a line used for tripping a topgallant or royal yard in sending it down. 1882 G. S. Nares Seamanship (ed. 6) 260 Drogues..are towed..mouth foremost by a stout rope, a small line termed a tripping-line, being fastened to the apex. 1891 Daily News 31 Dec. 4/7 The doors..having first been securely fastened..and tripping strings having been stretched across the pathways and lawn. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1915; most recently modified version published online June 2022). trippingadj. Etymology: < trip v. + -ing suffix².Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈtripping. That trips, in various senses. 1. Moving quickly and lightly; light-footed; nimble. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > progressive motion > walking > [adjective] > having specific manner of walking > light-footed lightOE light-footeda1425 lightfoot1440 feather-footed1565 tripping1567 nimble-footed1592 soft-foot1598 light-heeled1600 soft-footed1603 soft-footed1607 nimble-heeled1656 quick-foot1658 feather-heeleda1674 tickle-heeled1740 nimble-stepping1832 tripsome1846 twinkle-toed1960 society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > elegance > [adjective] > moving lightly and quickly winged1616 volant1650 airy1664 whisky1782 tripping1807 tripsome1890 1567 T. Drant tr. Horace Pistles in tr. Horace Arte of Poetrie sig. Ev Thou hast no trippinge trull To mince it with the now That thou mighst foote it vnto her. 1568 in J. Cranstoun Satirical Poems Reformation (1891) I. xlvi. 56 Thir tripand tyddis may tyne ws aw. 1684 J. Bunyan Pilgrim's Progress 2nd Pt. Authors Way sig. A5^v When little Tripping Maidens follow God, And leave old doting Sinners to his Rod. View more context for this quotation a1721 M. Prior Turtle & Sparrow (1723) 37 The tripping Fauns and Fairies came. 1807 W. Scott Let. 1 Oct. (1932) I. 387 A tripping Alexandrine stanza. 1851 D. Jerrold St. Giles & St. James (new ed.) i, in Writings I. 2 A quick, tripping footstep sounds in the deserted street. 1880 Ld. Acton Lett. to Gladstone (1904) 6 You will find his conversation, easy and tripping as it is, very inferior to his writings. 2. Stumbling, erring, sinning. ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > wrongdoing > erring > [adjective] scrithingOE aberrantc1536 tripping1577 devious1633 sinuous1850 society > morality > moral evil > wrong conduct > [adjective] > lapsing or lapsed tripping1577 delapsed1622 lapsed1638 lapsing1667 the world > movement > progressive motion > walking > [adjective] > having specific manner of walking > stumbling stumbling1538 tripping1577 snappering1596 stumbly1890 the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > disregard for truth, falsehood > lack of truth, falsity > an error, mistake > [adjective] erringa1340 overseena1393 willa1400 out of one's book (also books)1549 straying1553 faulting1566 deceived1569 seek1569 tripping1577 amiss1582 mistaking1582 naught1597 errant1609 solecistical1654 solecismical1656 wrong1695 solecistic1865 1577 tr. Eusebius in H. I. tr. H. Bullinger 50 Godlie Serm. II. iii. iii. sig. Cc.viii^v/1 The Lorde beginneth..with the bridle to checke the mouth of his tripping church. 1580 C. Hollyband Treasurie French Tong Chevaux qui brunchent, stumbling or tripping Iades. 1646 T. Gataker Mistake Removed 31 The tripping toung sometimes tels truth. 1703 N. Rowe Fair Penitent Epil. The tripping Dame cou'd find no Favour. 1903 G. Matheson Representative Men of Bible 2nd Ser. 287 Where the tripping are trodden down, where the weak are weeded out by the strong. 3. Heraldry. Of a buck, stag, etc.: Walking, and looking toward the dexter side, with three paws on the ground and one fore-paw raised; the same as passant of other animals. tripping-counter = counter-trippant adj. ΘΚΠ society > communication > indication > insignia > heraldic devices collective > heraldic representations of creatures > [adjective] > specific movements of heraldic beasts > of buck, stag, or hind tripping1562 counter-tripping1610 trippant1658 counter-trippant1830 1562 G. Legh Accedens of Armory 90 b An Vnicorne trippyng, Sable. 1610 J. Guillim Display of Heraldrie iii. xiv. 131 He beareth Azure, three Buckes tripping. c1828 W. Berry Encycl. Her. I. Gloss. Tripping-counter, or counter-trippant, is when two bucks, &c. are borne trippant contraryways, as if passing each other out of the field. 1863 C. Boutell Man. Heraldry xi. 64 Stags,..when in easy motion, they are tripping. 1870 D. Rock Textile Fabrics (S. Kensington Mus.) 40 Two giraffes, with one leg raised—may be better described as tripping. 4. In names of mechanical appliances that trip or are tripped (cf. trip v. 14); as tripping-coil, tripping-lever, tripping-relay ( Cent. Dict., Suppl. 1909); tripping-valve n. see quot. 1877. ΚΠ 1877 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Tripping-valve, one moved recurrently by the contact of some other part of the machinery. Derivatives ˈtrippingness n. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > progressive motion > walking > [noun] > manner of walking > light trip-and-go1532 trip1585 tripping1594 trippingness1827 patting1860 skitter1959 society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > singing > singing voice > [noun] > voice qualities trippingness1827 veil1861 mezza voce1877 1827 Examiner 738/1 Too much of trippingness in the walk. 1890 F. Murfree Felicia xi The basso could not forgive the soprano for the trippingness of her execution. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1915; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1591adj.1562
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