| Webster's Online Dictionary |
| Expressions | Domain | Definition | |
| Hopping Giles | Literature | A lame person; so called from St. Giles, the tutelar saint of cripples, who was himself lame. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. | |
| Hopping Giles | Slang in 1811 | HOPPING GILES. A jeering appellation given to any person who limps, or is lame; St. Giles was the patron of cripples, lepers, &c. Churches dedicated to that saint commonly stand out of town, many of them having been chapels to hospitals. See GYLES. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. | |
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