trot

Meanings

Noun

• An ugly old woman, a hag.
• A gait of a four-legged animal between walk and canter, a diagonal gait (in which diagonally opposite pairs of legs move together).
• A gait of a person or animal faster than a walk but slower than a run.
• A brisk journey or progression.
• A toddler.
• A young animal.
• A moderately rapid dance.
• A succession of heads thrown in a game of two-up.
• A run of luck or fortune.
• Synonym of horse
• Diarrhoea.
• A genre of Korean pop music employing repetitive rhythm and vocal inflections.
• Short form of Trotskyist

Verb

• To move along briskly; specifically, to move at a pace between a walk and a run.
• To move at a gait between a walk and a canter.
• To cause to move, as a horse or other animal, in the pace called a trot; to cause to run without galloping or cantering.

Related

Similar words

• jog
• jog, pace
• ppongjjak

Origin

• From Middle English trotten, from Old French trotter, troter, from Medieval Latin *trottō, *trotō, from Frankish *trottōn ("to go, run"), from Proto-Germanic *trudōną, *trudaną, *tradjaną, from Proto-Indo-European *dreh₂-. Cognate with Old High German trottōn ("to run"), Modern German trotten ("to trot, plod"), Gothic 𐍄𐍂𐌿𐌳𐌰𐌽 ("to tread"), Old Norse troða ("to walk, tread"), Old English tredan ("to step, tread"). tread.
• Short for foxtrot, whose rhythms influenced the genre.