Hip (To)

A hip means a hyp-ochon-driac. To hip means to make melancholy; to fret; to make one dismal or gloomy with forebodings. Hipped means melancholy, in low spirits.

“For one short moment let us cease

To mourn the loss of many ships—

Forget how tax and rates increase,

And all that now the nation hips.”

Sims: The Dagonet Ballads (A Set-off).

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

Hip (To)

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