trip the light fantastic toe
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.91 in modern English
38
Scrabble Score
24
Letters
6
Syllables
14
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Com, and trip it as ye go / On the light fantaſtick toe,"
- "Would any of the gay gentry of these parts deem themselves honored, and above their fellows, had they "tripped the light fantastic toe" with Royalty?"
- "The venerable Sachems now returned to the ballroom, where they tripped the light fantastic toe until the hour far."
Etymology
From John Milton's 1645 lyric poem L’Allegro, specifically the lines: "Com, and trip it as ye go / On the light fantastick toe."