trip and trippe - Middle English Compendium
Middle English Dictionary Entry
Entry Info
| Forms | trip(pe n.(1) Pl. trippus. |
| Etymology | From AF trippe dance & ME trippen v. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) An act or instance of tripping someone; also fig.; ~ of gile, fig. ?a deceitful cast, a crafty ploy or ruse; (b) a dance step; (c) a journey.
Associated quotations
a
- ?a1400(a1338) Chron.Pt.2 (Petyt 511)p.156 : Þan said kyng Philip tille alle þo of France, 'Of gile þis is a trip of Richard desceyuance.'
- c1425(a1420) Lydg.TB (Aug A.4)2.1867 : Hym to abate from his rayal stalle, And sodeynly to make hym doun to falle And with a trip þrowe hym on þe bake.
- a1425(c1333-52) Minot Poems (Glb E.9)26/159 : Now wist he neuer what him was best, For he es cast doun with a trip.
- a1450(a1338) Mannyng Chron.Pt.1 (Lamb 131)1825 : Ilk oþer pulled, ilk oþer schok, Wiþ fet in fourche ilk oþer tok, Wyþ trip forsetten, ilk oþer to gyle.
- c1450 How mankinde dooþ (Lamb 853)536 : Of good hope no councell þou craue Til deeþ þee caste with a trippe of dissaite.
b
- c1450 Ladd Y the daunce (Cai 383/603)p.307 : Ladd Y the daunce a Myssomur Day: Y made smale trippus, soth for to say.
c
- a1450 Yk.Pl.(Add 35290)142/133 : An aungell..bad me flee With hym and þe On-to Egipte..sertis I dred me sore To make my smale trippe.