单词 | hipping |
释义 | hippingn.1 Now English regional (chiefly northern). ΘΚΠ the world > movement > progressive motion > walking > [noun] > manner of walking > limping haltingc1440 hipping1440 limphalting1549 claudication1555 limping1555 halt1599 limpingness1753 limp1818 hippity-hop1845 gimp1925 Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 241 Hyppynge, or haltynge, claudicacio. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > inattention > ignoring, disregard > [noun] > passing over, omission hippingc1440 overskippingc1450 skipping1566 pretermission1879 c1440 (?c1350) in G. G. Perry Relig. Pieces in Prose & Verse (1914) 40 (MED) If þi body be at thi seruyce, and þi mouthe speke on a wyse, and thi herte thynke of wrechidnes caytefly, þan es þou twynned..Many thynges þat ere cause of swylke wrechede twynnynge..makes hippynge, homerynge, of medles momellynge. 3. In plural. Stepping stones. Cf. sense 4.Short for hipping stones (see hipping stone n. at Compounds). ΘΚΠ society > travel > means of travel > route or way > other means of passage or access > [noun] > stepping-stone > row of hipping stone1580 causey1598 stupple1611 hippings1697 stepping1796 1697 Surey Demoniack 61 Coming over the Hippings, she..slipt off one of the Stones into the Water. 1703 R. Thoresby Let. 27 Apr. in J. Ray Corr. (1848) 423 Hippins, steppings, large stones set in a shallow water at a step's distance from each other, to pass over by. 1824 W. Carr Horæ Momenta Cravenæ 7 Commin back ageean owert' slaap hippins,..down we baath drops, soos intot' beck! 1838 Bell's Life in London 15 Apr. He..made a turn up to the Meal-banks, down again by Roeburn and Hindburn, crossing the hippings below Wray. 1898 Fishing Gaz. 13 Aug. 8/3 Then we come to Linton stepping stones or ‘hippings’, as they are called in that district. 1988 Country Walking May 71/1 A path leads down to a footbridge over the river, alongside which is an ancient set of ‘hippings’ or stepping stones. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > upward movement > leaping, springing, or jumping > [noun] > hopping hipping1710 hopping1879 1710 T. Ruddiman in G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneis (new ed.) at Hoppand In some places of Scotland they call it Hipping, in other Happing; and commonly understand by it leaping or jumping on one leg. a1810 R. Tannahill Poems & Songs (1815) 193 Sic hipping and skipping, And springing and flinging, I'se wad that there's nane in the Lallands can waff it! Compounds hipping stone n. (chiefly in plural or attributive) a stepping stone. ΘΚΠ society > travel > means of travel > route or way > other means of passage or access > [noun] > stepping-stone > row of hipping stone1580 causey1598 stupple1611 hippings1697 stepping1796 1580 J. Stow Chrons. of Eng. 717 King Henrie was taken in Cletherwood, beside Bungerley Hyppingstons in Lancashire, by Thomas Talbot. 1673 Preston Court Leet Rec. (1905) 123 The Baliffes shall lay the hippin stones anew in Cocker Hole..before the first of January next. 1850 H. L. Lear Tales Kirkbeck 2nd Ser. 120 The beck where they usually crossed by the hipping-stones. 1881 J. H. Dixon Craven Dales 273 Some rude youths stationed on the hipping-stone bridge. 1907 H. Sutcliffe Toward Dawn xiv. 208 That old hill-proverb, ‘'Tis ill to stop half-way over the hipping-stones, if you've got to cross the stream.’ 2014 Lancs. Tel. (Nexis) 3 Feb. The Brungerley crossing once consisted of nothing more than ‘hipping’ stones set into the bed of the river. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022). † hippingn.2 Obsolete. rare. Dislocation or fracture of the hip, esp. in a horse. Cf. hipped adj.1 2. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > animal disease or disorder > disorders of horses > [noun] > disorders of legs > dislocation stifle1566 stifling1566 hipping1610 stifle-slip1908 heel bug1920 the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > diseases of tissue > disorders of joints > [noun] > dislocation > of hip hipping1610 hip-shot1654 1610 G. Markham Maister-peece i. xii. 33 If a horse go stiffe, it is a signe either of wrinching, hipping, stifling or foundring either in body or legs. 1892 Special Rep. Dis. Cattle & Cattle Feeding (U.S. Dept. Agric.) 293 The anterior and external part of the pelvis (ilium)..is liable to fracture, which stock owners describe as ‘hipping’, or being ‘hipped’. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2018). hippingn.3 Now regional (chiefly Scottish). 1. A baby's nappy. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > underwear > [noun] > baby's nappy whittlec900 diapera1616 hipping1731 napkin1842 didy1902 nappy1920 nap1930 the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > cleaning or cleanliness of the person > [noun] > baby's nappy whittlec900 diapera1616 hipping1731 napkin1842 didy1902 nappy1920 pull-up1989 1731 Melrose Parish Reg. (1913) 179 The child had a day and night busken with it, some hippings, but no writ. 1761 State Process Declarator of Marriage, Charlotte Armstrong 46 The Child had..a Fustian Blanket, two Shirts, two Waistcoats, three Mutches, and a Dozen of Hippens. 1824 T. Carlyle Let. 12 Nov. in Coll. Lett. T. & J. W. Carlyle (1970) III. 195 His pap-spoons and his hippings. 1901 R. De B. Trotter Galloway Gossip Eighty Years Ago 16 Busy weshin dirty hippens in the gran Punch-Bowl. 1996 Herald (Glasgow) (Nexis) 1 Apr. 20 It is easier now by far; no safety pins.., and you don't have to shake out the solids or wash the dirty hippins. 2013 Orcadian 9 May 8 The constant need for changing nappies—or ‘hippings’ to use a dialect word. 2. slang. The curtain of a theatre. Now rare.In quot. 2015 in figurative context. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > the theatre or the stage > a theatre > theatrical equipment or accessories > [noun] > curtain curtain1598 drop1781 iron curtain1794 green curtain1805 greeny1821 tableau curtain1830 drop-curtain1832 rag1848 hipping1858 cloth1881 safety curtain1881 asbestos curtain1890 olio1923 tab1929 sail curtain1941 iron1951 swag1959 1858 J. G. Bertram Behind Scenes ii. 26 Richard..had borrowed fourpence to get it [sc. a cup of whisky] replenished preparatory to the raising of the ‘hippen’, as he called the curtain. 1881 J. S. Neish Byways 22 One of the new scenes was used as the ‘drop’, or the ‘hippen’,..while the other..did duty for all scenic purposes. 1889 in A. Barrère & C. G. Leland Dict. Slang I. 464 In Glasgow the gods shout ‘Up with the hippen!’ 1905 W. Skene East Neuk Chron. 76/2 Theatre audiences sit nowadays waiting the commencement of the performance as if they were in church..; the raising of the ‘hippen’ does not seem to them of the slightest importance. 2015 Morpeth (Northumberland) Herald (Nexis) 4 Apr. Alex will invite the performers and crowds to hoist the hippin on a muckle fligarishon' (raise the curtain on a huge celebration). Phrases in hippings: very young; (hence) lacking in experience; = in nappies at nappy n.3 Phrases. Similarly out of one's hippings and variants: grown up, mature, adult (often in negative contexts). ΚΠ 1908 Phi Beta Pi Q. July 150/1 The finest physical exercise is playing on the floor as you did when in hippins. 1934 ‘L. G. Gibbon’ Grey Granite iii. 204 Ake had told him..not to talk wet, they were both of them out of their hippens by now. 1992 Glasgow (Herald) (Nexis) 29 Apr. 16 He was scarcely out of the hippens when dear friends..led many of my generation to march..against nuclear arms. 2005 People (Scots ed.) (Nexis) 10 Apr. 25 Blair..once claimed to have..[seen] Newcastle legend Jackie Milburn, despite the fact he was still in hippins when Wor Jackie hung up his boots. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.11440n.21610n.31731 |
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