Examples
“Just as genes and organisms undergo natural selection, words—specifically, irregular verbs such as “holp” that do not take an -ed ending in the past tense—are subject to powerful pressure to “regularize” as the language develops.”
“Is that odd-looking “holp” an archaic word or a spelling mistake?”
“In turns out that “holp” was the past tense of “help” when Shakespeare wrote these words sometime between 1589 and 1594.”
“May 11, 2009 at 9:47 am holp holp holp! cow-werkers are talkin poly-ticks!”
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“June 11th, 2006 at 6:16 pm punaise, punaise, halp – help – holp!”
“And his great love, sharp as his spur, hath holp him”
“For my brother, I think he holds you well, and in dearness of heart hath holp to effect your ensuing marriage; — surely suit ill spent and labour ill bestowed.”
“You had musty victual, and he hath holp to eat it: he is a very valiant trencherman; he hath an excellent stomach.”
“How Sir Launcelot rode on his adventure, and how he holp a dolorous lady from her pain, and how that he fought with a dragon.”
“Then they swore it should be done, and so passed forth Sir Launcelot, and each one of the brethren holp other as well as they might.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘holp’.
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Literarie: The Tragedy of Coriolanus
A play by William Shakespeare.
sufferance, cram, garner, embracement, freelier, mammock, cambric, stitchery, cloven, murrain, manifest housekeeper, a crack'd drachma! and 88 more...
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boggled
legal according to the dicker we use
shaw, taw, nowt, tew, frit, scow, trow, dow, roan, stipe, shew, woad and 31 more...
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W.E.L.D.E.R.
réchauffé, gast, dere, heller, arête, wair, tut, shad, tipi, emeu, codon, unco and 65 more...
Tweets
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bilby "COMINIUS: You have holp to ravish your own daughters, and
To melt the city leads upon your pates;
To see your wives dishonour'd to your noses..."
- William Shakespeare, 'The Tragedy of Coriolanus'. Aug 29, 2009