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発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /ˈhɜː.pəl/
• 韻: -ɜː(ɹ)pəl

動詞

hirple (third-person singular simple present hirples, present participle hirpling, simple past and past participle hirpled)

1. (intransitive, Scotland, northern UK) To walk with a limp, to drag a limb, to walk lamely; to move with a gait somewhere between walking and crawling.
   • 1922, John Buchan, Huntingtower:

     Get you on that bicycle and hurry on, and I'll hirple after you the best I can.

   • 2015, Kate Atkinson, A God in Ruins, →ISBN, page 136:

     A woman hirpled along the corridor towards them with the aid of a walking frame.

   • 2022, Liam McIlvanney, The Heretic, page 513:

     Around lunchtime he hirpled down the corridor to the Gents.

   • 1999, Seamus Heaney, Beowulf, London: Faber and Faber, page 31:

     He is hasped and hooped and hirpling with pain,
     limping and looped in it.

同意語

• hobble
• hurple