Wordie [wûrd • ē]
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escape has been listed 18 times with 1 comment
flounce has been listed 33 times with 4 comments
hightail has been listed 2 times with 5 comments
scoot has been listed 9 times with 0 comments
exit has been listed 10 times with 1 comment
hie has been listed 20 times with 0 comments
tittup has been listed 11 times with 0 comments
hurple has been listed 7 times with 1 comment
zigzag has been listed 21 times with 0 comments
zip has been listed 29 times with 1 comment
swoosh has been listed 19 times with 1 comment
lollop has been listed 19 times with 2 comments
shamble has been listed 10 times with 0 comments
hurtle has been listed 10 times with 4 comments
bustle has been listed 30 times with 1 comment
make one's way has been listed 1 time with 0 comments
dawdle has been listed 23 times with 1 comment
tear has been listed 19 times with 2 comments
waltz has been listed 25 times with 0 comments
bowl has been listed 16 times with 0 comments
surge has been listed 16 times with 4 comments
steal has been listed 14 times with 0 comments
dance has been listed 31 times with 3 comments
bolt has been listed 24 times with 4 comments
truck has been listed 12 times with 1 comment
flutter has been listed 41 times with 0 comments
flit has been listed 31 times with 0 comments
light out has been listed 2 times with 0 comments
storm has been listed 47 times with 0 comments
rage has been listed 15 times with 1 comment
glide has been listed 20 times with 0 comments
swim has been listed 11 times with 1 comment
circulate has been listed 2 times with 0 comments
hasten has been listed 6 times with 1 comment
orbit has been listed 20 times with 1 comment
navigate has been listed 8 times with 0 comments
negotiate has been listed 9 times with 0 comments
hover has been listed 13 times with 0 comments
fly has been listed 32 times with 5 comments
circumambulate has been listed 19 times with 0 comments
perambulate has been listed 55 times with 1 comment
circle has been listed 27 times with 3 comments
career has been listed 10 times with 3 comments
careen has been listed 30 times with 2 comments
veer has been listed 19 times with 3 comments
wobble has been listed 26 times with 1 comment
swerve has been listed 13 times with 1 comment
caper has been listed 25 times with 0 comments
galumph has been listed 33 times with 6 comments
sally has been listed 17 times with 6 comments
canter has been listed 18 times with 1 comment
amble has been listed 33 times with 0 comments
waddle has been listed 16 times with 0 comments
shuffle has been listed 26 times with 0 comments
leap has been listed 8 times with 3 comments
trip has been listed 13 times with 1 comment
travel has been listed 21 times with 0 comments
abscond has been listed 114 times with 7 comments
sneak has been listed 5 times with 0 comments
wend has been listed 35 times with 0 comments
wander has been listed 25 times with 6 comments
weave has been listed 11 times with 1 comment
slither has been listed 33 times with 2 comments
roll has been listed 19 times with 0 comments
skedaddle has been listed 44 times with 1 comment
limp has been listed 11 times with 0 comments
hike has been listed 8 times with 2 comments
gallop has been listed 16 times with 0 comments
step has been listed 5 times with 0 comments
gambol has been listed 56 times with 4 comments
jog has been listed 8 times with 0 comments
mosey has been listed 18 times with 0 comments
meander has been listed 74 times with 3 comments
saunter has been listed 54 times with 2 comments
stroll has been listed 17 times with 1 comment
tread has been listed 12 times with 5 comments
promenade has been listed 23 times with 1 comment
gallivant has been listed 42 times with 11 comments
lumber has been listed 20 times with 2 comments
roam has been listed 11 times with 0 comments
march has been listed 11 times with 0 comments
traipse has been listed 59 times with 0 comments
toddle has been listed 9 times with 0 comments
ramble has been listed 27 times with 1 comment
race has been listed 13 times with 2 comments
trudge has been listed 16 times with 2 comments
scamper has been listed 13 times with 0 comments
tiptoe has been listed 11 times with 0 comments
plod has been listed 14 times with 0 comments
schlep has been listed 36 times with 3 comments
trek has been listed 8 times with 0 comments
totter has been listed 11 times with 0 comments
trot has been listed 10 times with 1 comment
sprint has been listed 8 times with 0 comments
skip has been listed 17 times with 14 comments
jump has been listed 12 times with 0 comments
hop has been listed 16 times with 0 comments
lope has been listed 23 times with 2 comments
rush has been listed 11 times with 1 comment
hurry has been listed 4 times with 0 comments
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Amble is a simple one, but sometimes I find that no other word will do.
Excellent suggestions, all! Thanks! They have been duly added. Bilby, for some reason, I wasn't aware of the locomotive meaning of flounce. Thanks for bringing it to my attention. Dc, I had forgotten all about hightail, even though I enjoy using it myself. And Sionnach, I don't know how exit and scoot escaped me.
scoot? exit?
High-tail?
flounce.
Hie is a good one. Thanks, bilby. I'm afraid, though, that if I add moonwalk, I would have to add other very specific kinds of movement (e.g. can-can, tango, goose-step), which is not what I want to do here.
Hie, moonwalk.
This is a new one to me. "She tittupped into the room." Sounds fun.
Tittup.
You're right, yarb. I do.
I think you need lollop.
hurple, which is an odd thing, but at least it rhymes with purple :-)
Bilby, I wonder if your grandfather's toodling was related to the old-fashioned casual way of saying goodbye, "toodle-oo!" - which interestingly may derive from the French à tout à l'heure!, meaning, approximately, "See you soon!"
"Dawdle", on the other hand, seems to be related to "doddle", which may be related to toddle, dodder, or dither.
dawdle. My grandfather used to say he would toodle off to bed which is probably just a variation.
good suggestions, bilby! Thanks!
Bowl, dance, steal. I also think it's time to reclaim surge from the Pentagon.
thanks for the suggestions. Dewly added (it's almost morning).
amble? canter?
Have you met sally?
Interesting that fully one third of the current (57-word) list are words beginning with 's'. How about slither as another possibility? Or swerve? Wander? Wobble? Weave? Wend?
Galumph is only slightly less common than gallivant in a Google Book search, and most uses are not overt references to Lewis Carroll. So I'd say galumph has been naturalized in English. But it's your list. Stick to your editorial guns.
By the way, for a translator who likes lists, I'd recommend March's Thesaurus and Dictionary of the English Language (1958). It has massive themed lists with positive connotations in the left column and negative connotations in the right column. For example, Cleanness--Filthiness spans three pages with about 400 line items).
Thanks for all the suggestions. Like several other of my lists, this is meant to remind me of words I can use in my translating work, so more specialized terms or words that are extremely specialized (e.g. titubate) or peculiar (does anyone use galumph without conciously alluding to Alice in Wonderland?), I will probably leave out.
I like it! Still looking for gallop, step, hike, and traverse. :-)
And welcome to it, rolig. Great list!
How about wamble, titubate, gambol and circumambulate?
No time to leave a comment, I gotta skedaddle.
How about limp and galumph?
Many of these words were trawled from reesetee's excellent list Walk This Way. Many thanks!