单词 | dot and go one |
释义 | dot and go oneadj.n.adv. British. colloquial. A. adj. 1. Of a person: limping, lame. Now rare and somewhat dated. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. 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). ΚΠ 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. ΚΠ 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. With an uneven, limping gait. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ 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). < adj.n.adv.1768 |
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