limp

Meaning

1. To walk lamely, as if favouring one leg.
2. To travel with a malfunctioning system of propulsion.
3. To move or proceed irregularly.
4. (slang) To call, particularly in an unraised pot pre-flop.

hobble

be lame

walk lame

walk with a limp

go lame

lacking willpower

completely exhausted

walk lamely

dot and go one

crawl along

flaggy

move up and down

slip and fall

hanging down

e.g.

unfavorable progress

unfavourable progress

dreadfully weary

terribly frustrated

loose-jointed

hop on one foot

Frequency

Pronounced as (IPA)

/lɪmp/

From Middle English limpen (“to fall short”), from Old English limpan, from Proto-West Germanic *limpan, from Proto-Germanic *limpaną (“to hang down”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)lemb-, *(s)lembʰ- (“to hang loosely, hang limply”). Cognate with Low German lumpen (“to limp”), Middle High German limpfen (“to hobble, limp”), dialectal German lampen (“to hang down loosely”), Icelandic limpa (“limpness, weakness”).

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