Noun: hop
Sample Sentences
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The frog crossed the brook in three or four hops.
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My fellow passengers are a mixture of people returning from a day out in the capital, locals doing short hops, and a few (like me) heading farther afield. [2020 December 2, Paul Bigland, “My weirdest and wackiest Rover yet”, in Rail, page 68:]
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For popular radio stars in New York and Los Angeles, it was a short hop to network television.
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1896, Benjamin Brierley, James Dronsfield, "Ab-o'th'-Yate" Sketches and Other Short Stories
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One singing-room we had closed, and so damaged a "twopenny hop" that it could not have survived another season had our own prosperity continued unchecked.
Nouns inflected like hop
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. From Middle English hoppen, from Old English hoppian (“to hop, spring, leap, dance”), from Proto-West Germanic *huppōn, from Proto-Germanic *huppōną (“to hop”), from Proto-Indo-European *kewb- (“to bend, bow”).
2. Cognate with Dutch hoppen (“to hop”), German hopfen, hoppen (“to hop”), Danish hoppe (“to hop, leap, jump”), Swedish hoppa (“to hop, leap, jump”), Icelandic hoppa (“to hop, skip”). See: Old English Nouns '
hoppian', German Nouns '
hopfen', Danish Nouns '
hoppe', Icelandic Nouns '
hoppa'.
Verbs referencing "hop"
German Nouns
Hopfen, French Nouns
houblon.