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Hip (To)

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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.

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Hills
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Hinda
Hinder
Hindustan
Hindustan Regiment
Hinzelmann
Hip (To)
Hip and Thigh
Hip! Hip! Hurrah!
Hipper-switches
Hippo
Hippocampus
Hippocras
Hippocratean School
Hippocrates Sleeve
Hippocrene
Hippogriff

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