Etymology

hopping

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Today it means: hop picking, the practice of picking hops; for Londoners a holiday period working in the hop gardens of Kent. Full definition →

Middle French houbelon
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  1. Middle French · derived fromhoubelon
  2. English todayhopping

Alternative spelling (C17) of hoppe, from Middle French houbelon

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.