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Webster 1913 Edition
Hopping
Hop′ping
,Noun.
The act of one who, or that which, hops; a jumping, frisking, or dancing.
Hopping Dick
(Zool.)
, a thrush of Jamaica (
Merula leucogenys
), resembling the English blackbird in its familiar manners, agreeable song, and dark plumage.Webster 1828 Edition
Hopping
HOP'PING
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HOP'PING
,Noun.
Definition 2024
hopping
hopping
English
Noun
hopping (plural hoppings)
- (Britain) hop picking, the practice of picking hops; for Londoners a holiday period working in the hop gardens of Kent.
- Hopping Down in Kent, Alan Bignell (1977).
- 1915, W.S. Maugham, "Of Human Bondage":
- He took his whole family to a hop-field in Kent, not far from Mrs. Athelny's home, and they spent three weeks hopping.
- The addition of hops during the production of beer as a flavouring agent
Etymology 2
to hop
Verb
hopping
- present participle of hop
Noun
hopping (plural hoppings)
- The act of one who, or that which, hops; a jumping, frisking, or dancing.
- (countable, physics) A shift from one energy-state to another by an electron in an atom.