tantivy

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Don't let him slip through your fingers for a day; hunt him from lodging to lodging, from tavern to tavern, into jail and out of jail--tantivy, yoicks, hark-forward!

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  1. adverb At full gallop; at top speed.
  2. noun A hunting cry.
  3. noun A fast, furious gallop; top speed.

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  • Don't let him slip through your fingers for a day; hunt him from lodging to lodging, from tavern to tavern, into jail and out of jail--tantivy, yoicks, hark-forward! —  Birds of Prey
  • Another rides tantivy, or full trot, To show much gravity he matters not. —  Works of John Bunyan — Complete
  • He says that an ambitious tantivy,[2] missing of his towering hopes of preferment in Ireland, is come over to vent his spleen on the late Ministry, etc. I'll tantivy him with a vengeance. —  The Journal to Stella
  • Another rides tantivy, or full trot, —  Works of John Bunyan — Volume 03
  • The wild tantivy boy had vanished, and the sobriquet of "Tavern Knight" was fast becoming —  The Tavern Knight
 

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  1. Origin unknown.

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  1. Supposed to be imitative of the note of a hunting-horn; cf. tantara and tivy.
  2. Formerly also tantivee; from tantivy, adv.
  3. from tantivy, adv.
 

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/tænˈtɪvi/
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