giddyup
/ˈɡɪdiˌʌp/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.56 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
3
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To start moving or move faster; to get a move on.
Example Sentences
- "If I could rule the world, everyone would have a gun / In the ghetto, of course, when giddy-upping on their horse"
- "Not expecting any traffic, he giddyuped them onto the main road."
- "But she just kept bopping up and down and telling me to giddyup, so that I had to turn and make my way properly on the stairs for fear of her pulling us both over."
- "“Yeah, been partying since I was fourteen, never thought I'd wind-up in a place like this,” I sat there for a moment in quiet reflection, “been high most of my life . . . on one thing or another . . . guess it's time I giddyuped and got going on this clean up my act thing, I've hit the break point . . . gotta' do something . . . do something or it's going to kill me.""
Etymology
From get up or get ye/thee up.
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈɡɪdiˌʌp/
- British English: /ˈɡɪdɪˌʌp/