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单词 dot and go one
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dot and go oneadj.n.adv.

Brit. /ˌdɒt (ə)n(d) ˈɡəʊ wʌn/, U.S. /ˌdɑt n̩ ˈɡoʊ ˌwən/
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: dot v.1, and conj.1, go v., one n.
Etymology: < dot v.1 + and conj.1 + go v. + one n., after dot and carry one n. or the phrasal use on which it is based (compare quot. 1726 at dot and carry one n. 1a).
British. colloquial.
A. adj.
1. Of a person: limping, lame. Now rare and somewhat dated.
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the world > movement > progressive motion > walking > [adjective] > having specific manner of walking > limping
haltingc1384
limpish1570
limping1599
claudicant1624
dot and go one1768
hilching1786
hippity-hop1845
dot and carry one1851
1768 Adventures Oxymel Classic II. xxvi. 23 You limping rascal! you dot-and-go-one scoundrel!
1830 London Lit. Gaz. 28 Aug. 559/3 By this simple contrivance, I have known many a dot-and-go-one gentleman start off as bold as a dog just un-coupled.
2013 M. Willett Postcards from Past xxv. 249 ‘Are you OK?’ he asks. You look a bit ‘dot and go one’, as Pa would say.
2. Of or designating an uneven, limping gait. Also in extended use: disjointed; clumsy, awkward.
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the world > movement > progressive motion > walking > [adjective] > having specific manner of walking > uneven
hobbling1545
dot and go one1818
hirpling1821
hippity-hoppity1877
hippity-hop1888
society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > inelegance > [adjective] > disconnected
unjointed1588
disjointed1593
checkie-wise1603
rambling1632
loose1638
unconnexed1716
disconnected1777
snipped1806
dot and go one1818
spasmodic1832
spotty1843
snippety1864
rantipole1866
splathering1929
1818 W. Scott Heart of Mid-Lothian v, in Tales of my Landlord 2nd Ser. III. 137 I wish ye had seen him stoiting about, aff ae leg on to the other, wi' a kind o' dot-and-go-one sort o' motion.
1881 J. Hawthorne Fortune's Fool (1883) i. xx The conversation..hobbled along in the discontinuous, dot-and-go-one fashion that conversations sometimes affect.
1920 J. Galsworthy Tatterdemalion ii. vii. 286 I..heard the dot-and-go-one footsteps pattering after me.
1991 J. Saxton Nobody's Children (e-book ed.) x Megan's English was lovely now, a joy to hear, where before it had been a bit stilted, a bit dot and go one.
B. n.
1. (A nickname for) a person or animal with a limping, uneven gait. Cf. dot and carry one n. 2. Obsolete (English regional (Cornwall) in later use).
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1772 T. Nugent tr. J. F. de Isla Hist. Friar Gerund I. 130 It being an agreed thing that your lame folk are generally, from their more sedentary lives, learned and knowing folk, the Dot-and-go-one of whom we are speaking did not disgrace the maxim.
1840 W. G. Simms Border Beagles I. viii. 125 I tipped Jim the wink—set him to saddle Gray Bowline, dad's old dot and go one.
1882 F. W. P. Jago Anc. Lang. & Dial. Cornwall 154 Craming, and clopping, like a clouching ould tôtle, goes thickky-there poor ould ‘dot-and-go-one’.
2. depreciative. An inferior teacher of writing or arithmetic. Obsolete. rare.
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1788 F. Grose Classical Dict. Vulgar Tongue (ed. 2) Dot and go one.., Also a jeering appellation for an inferior writing master, or teacher of arithmetic.
C. adv.
With an uneven, limping gait. Obsolete.
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the world > movement > progressive motion > walking > [adverb] > unevenly
hobblingly1607
dot and go one1797
hippity-hoppity1825
hippity-hop1868
the world > movement > progressive motion > walking > [adverb] > in limping manner
limpingly1579
haltingly1580
dot and go one1797
hippity-hop1845
1797 Monthly Rev. July 322 Behold that knowing dog from Romford.., his horse shuffling along, dot and go one.
1840 R. H. Barham Lay St. Nicholas in Ingoldsby Legends 1st Ser. 269 He rose with the sun, limping ‘dot and go one’.
1896 Boy's Own Paper 29 Aug. 755/1 He'll have to run dot and go one, I suppose, sir?
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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