dot-and-go-one

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English

Adjective

dot-and-go-one (not comparable)

  1. (UK, slang, archaic) Having a lame or limping gait.
    • 1893, The Boy's Own Annual, volume 16, page 805:
      [] I shouted, though with inward misgivings on account of my game leg; and we started off towards camp as fast as we could go — which is not saying much, as I could only get over the ground in a dot-and-go-one sort of way.
    • 1928, Agatha Christie, The Mystery of the Blue Train, page 127:
      "I think the doctors messed it up a bit. They said he wouldn't limp or anything, but when he left here he was still completely dot and go one."

References

  • John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary