Hirple

Quick meaning: Hirple is a verb meaning (intransitive, Scotland, northern UK) To walk with a limp, to drag a limb, to walk lamely; to move with a gait somewhere between walking and crawling.

Meaning

(intransitive, Scotland, northern UK) To walk with a limp, to drag a limb, to walk lamely; to move with a gait somewhere between walking and crawling.

Example Sentences

Around lunchtime he hirpled down the corridor to the Gents.

He is hasped and hooped and hirpling with pain, limping and looped in it.

Get you on that bicycle and hurry on, and I'll hirple after you the best I can.

A woman hirpled along the corridor towards them with the aid of a walking frame.

Word Forms

• hirples
• hirpling
• hirpled

Synonyms for hirple

Depending on context, synonyms include hobble, hurple.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include limple, hamble, hobble, limp, peg-leg, halt.

Related Dictionary Tools