Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to hirple
Participle: hirpled
Gerund: hirpling
Indicative
Present
| I | hirple |
| you | hirple |
| he;she;it | hirples |
| we | hirple |
| you | hirple |
| they | hirple |
Perfect
| I | have hirpled |
| you | have hirpled |
| he;she;it | has hirpled |
| we | have hirpled |
| you | have hirpled |
| they | have hirpled |
Past
| I | hirpled |
| you | hirpled |
| he;she;it | hirpled |
| we | hirpled |
| you | hirpled |
| they | hirpled |
Pluperfect
| I | had hirpled |
| you | had hirpled |
| he;she;it | had hirpled |
| we | had hirpled |
| you | had hirpled |
| they | had hirpled |
Future
| I | will hirple |
| you | will hirple |
| he;she;it | will hirple |
| we | will hirple |
| you | will hirple |
| they | will hirple |
Future Perfect
| I | will have hirpled |
| you | will have hirpled |
| he;she;it | will have hirpled |
| we | will have hirpled |
| you | will have hirpled |
| they | will have hirpled |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | hirple |
| you | hirple |
| he;she;it | hirple |
| we | hirple |
| you | hirple |
| they | hirple |
Perfect
| I | have hirpled |
| you | have hirpled |
| he;she;it | have hirpled |
| we | have hirpled |
| you | have hirpled |
| they | have hirpled |
Imperfect
| I | hirpled |
| you | hirpled |
| he;she;it | hirpled |
| we | hirpled |
| you | hirpled |
| they | hirpled |
Pluperfect
| I | had hirpled |
| you | had hirpled |
| he;she;it | had hirpled |
| we | had hirpled |
| you | had hirpled |
| they | had hirpled |
Conditional
Present
| I | would hirple |
| you | would hirple |
| he;she;it | would hirple |
| we | would hirple |
| you | would hirple |
| they | would hirple |
Perfect
| I | would have hirpled |
| you | would have hirpled |
| he;she;it | would have hirpled |
| we | would have hirpled |
| you | would have hirpled |
| they | would have hirpled |
Imperative
| you | hirple |
| we | Let's hirple |
| you | hirple |
Verbs conjugated like 'hirple'
abacinate,
abalienate,
abase,
abate,
abbreviate,
abdicate,
abduce,
aberrate,
aberuncate,
abirritate,
abjudge,
abjudicate,
abjugate,
abjure,
ablactate,
ablaqueate,
able,
ablegate,
abligate,
abnegate, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'hirple'
sirple,
birle,
chirpse,
circle,
dimple,
disple,
firtle,
girdle,
hiddle,
higgle,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
A word of unknown origin, first recorded in Scots sources from the late fifteenth century; but probably from Old Norse herpast (“to suffer from cramp”) the middle voice verb. Compare the Icelandic herpa (“to contract, to draw together”). See: Icelandic '
herpa'.
Sample Sentences
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I saw the hurcheon and the hare
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In hidlings hirpling here and there, [1597, Alexander Montgomery, The Cherrie and the Slae:]
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Get you on that bicycle and hurry on, and I'll hirple after you the best I can. [1922, John Buchan, Huntingtower:]
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A woman hirpled along the corridor towards them with the aid of a walking frame. [2015, Kate Atkinson, A God in Ruins, →ISBN, page 136:]
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Around lunchtime he hirpled down the corridor to the Gents. [2022, Liam McIlvanney, The Heretic, page 513:]
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He is hasped and hooped and hirpling with pain,
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limping and looped in it. [1999, Seamus Heaney, Beowulf, London: Faber and Faber, page 31:]