holp
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 9
- Words With Friends
- 10
- Letters
- 4
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Definition of holp
2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included
verb
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(archaic, form-of, past)simple past of help: helped.
“Thou art my warrior; I holp to frame thee.”
“Both, both, my girl. / By foul play, as thou sayest, were we heav'd thence, / But blessedly holp hither.”
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verb
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(archaic, form-of, past)simple past of help: helped.
“Thou art my warrior; I holp to frame thee.”
“Both, both, my girl. / By foul play, as thou sayest, were we heav'd thence, / But blessedly holp hither.”
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(Southern-US, form-of, obsolete, participle, past)past participle of help.
“Like most folks around here, I done holp him so much already I can't quit now.”
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Etymology
From Middle English holp (first and third person singular past indicative of helpen (“to help”)), from Old English healp (same form of helpan (“to help”)), from Proto-Germanic *halp (same form of *helpaną (“to help”)). Cognate with German half, Middle Dutch holp (in modern Dutch replaced with hielp). More at help.
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