Then, just seven minutes later, right-back Liam Donnelly was forced to
hirple to the sidelines.
Hirple: (a) hobble (b) allusion (c) attack (d) defending player Answers: 1 (a); 2 (d); 3 (b); 4 (c); 5 (a); 6 (b); 7 (d); 8 (c); 9 (b); 10 (a)
HIRPLE is a British word meaning "to limp"; CURPLE means hindquarters or buttocks, especially of a horse; CHILVER (British dialect) means "ewe lamb" or "ewe mutton." It is also a surname, as is WILVER, which was also the given name (forename) of baseball's Dornell ("Willie") Stargell (1940-2001).
First, Parks sent a longrange penalty narrowly wide - then skipper Ally Kellock was forced to
hirple off with a knee problem.
Joggers
hirple by, dog walkers pad past, a cyclist claims right of way, a cormorant hangs out its wings to dry and a couple hug and peck on a damp bench.
Tam Reid would often play to his audience in this respect, affecting a drunken '
hirple', or stagger, as he came on stage, and then performing his song with complete mastery.
(Auden may have coined some of these words from their Latin root, or come across them in sources not read by OED readers, but occasionally it seems undeniable that OED was his inspiration: in 'A Bad Night: A Lexical Exercise', the word
hirple, 'to move with a gait between walking and crawling', is to be found in one of OED's citations for hoast, to cough, which occurs later in the poem.) Clearly, the Supplement could not have recorded all Auden's unusual vocabulary (though this is not, as it happens, a point made by Burchfield).
The 'Morritt circular' begins over lush pastureland where a dotterel pretends to
hirple as it lures us away from its simple grass-level nest.
Meekings was at least able to
hirple to the touchline as Hayes made way on a stretcher to get him down the tunnel and off to Ninewells Hospital.
I will
hirple in and get a chair put out beside the dug-out so that I can sit there and watch the game."
So I go for a general wax and afterwards
hirple round the shops with sair legs walking like John Wayne.
Incidentally, since I became temporarily crippled, I've noticed that the amount of time the green man flashes is hardly sufficient for anyone who has to
hirple to get even half way across a road.