hippon.

Brit.

/ˈhɪpəʊ/, U.S.

/ˈhɪpoʊ/, South African English

/ˈhɪpəʊ/

Inflections: Plural hippos, hippoes, unchanged.

Forms: 1800s hippo. (with point), 1800s– hippo.

Origin: Formed within English, by clipping or shortening. Etymon: hippopotamus n.

Etymology: Shortened < hippopotamus n., probably originally as a graphic abbreviation.Compare the following earlier passage, which probably shows a graphic contraction of the singular hippopotamus (including its final letter), rather than a plural form of hippo:1825 Let. 3 Oct. in Morning Post 20 Dec. The man fortunately fell with the tree into one of the pits dug to catch the hippo's.

1. Originally colloquial. A hippopotamus.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > order Artiodactyla (cloven-hoofed animals) > [noun] > group Suiformes (hippos and pigs) > family Hippopotamidae > hippopotamus, amphibiusi, or hippo

hippopotamusa1398

water horsea1398

river horse1583

seahorse1600

sea-ox1600

morse1703

sea-cow1731

hippo1850

1850 Boston Post 1 July 1/6 The Hippo., however,..laps up the trash as if it were wandering in the lap of luxury.

1859 Evening Star 26 Sept. Here we left all the Makolo but two to cut up the hippo and dry it.

1893 F. C. Selous Trav. S.-E. Afr. 65 Our guide now wished me to remain here that I might look for the hippos.

1907 Geogr. Jrnl. 29 21 Hippo are very plentiful in the lower reaches of the Limpopo river.

1947 P. J. Pretorius Jungle Man 74 I didn't kill a single hippo that day.

1998 Mirror 18 July 3 (caption) The baby hippo's arrival delighted staff at the safari park.

2016 J. Buckley Spiders & Other Deadly Animals vi. 85 Hippos have been called one of the most dangerous animals in Africa.

2. South African. Also with capital initial. An armoured vehicle used by the police as a personnel carrier. Now historical.

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1976 Drum (Johannesburg) July 28 Rocks were thrown. Shots were fired. And the anti-terrorist squad came onto the scene in their hippos.

1988 K. Barris Small Change 78 There was a Hippo pulled off the road—a high, armoured, mine-proof vehicle.

2009 J. Peffer Art & End of Apartheid iv. 127 New methods for urban onslaught and new machines, like the Hippos, were introduced to daily terrorize and ‘pacify’ the residents in the black locations.

3. Chiefly British. Also with capital initial. A flat-bottomed plastic bag filled with water and placed in the cistern of a toilet in order to reduce the cistern's capacity and thus reduce the amount of water used each time the toilet is flushed. Also more fully hippo bag.

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1997 Sunday Tel. 9 Feb. 18/1 The ‘Hippo’ is the brain-child of Paul Adshead... The thick blue plastic bag opens out to form an open box. It is placed in the cistern and filled with water.

1997 Guardian 12 Apr. (The Week section) 2/7 10 things you can do to save water. 1. Invest in a ‘hippo bag’.

2005 Hansard Commons 23 Nov. 2024 w The actions that the customers can take..include carrying out water efficiency audits and the installation of Hippo bags in larger toilet cisterns.

2013 @environmentor 12 Mar. in twitter.com (O.E.D. Archive) Put a hippo in your toilet cistern and fit push taps to sinks in an effort to save water #greentips.

Compounds

(In sense 1.)

C1. General attributive and objective, as hippo enclosure, hippo hunting, hippo meat, etc.

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1854 Royal Cornwall Gaz. 21 July 1/1 (advt.) Mine Materials..1 Butt and 1 Hippo Hide of Leather.

1867 S. W. Baker Nile Tributaries Abyssinia xv. 396 These men arrived with the long ropes that form a portion of the outfit for hippo hunting.

1902 J. Conrad Heart of Darkness ii, in Youth 107 They had brought along a provision of hippo-meat which went rotten, and made the wilderness stink in my nostrils.

1936 Times of India 11 Jan. 23/4 Hippo Ivory is whiter than elephant ivory and there is little or no grain.

1996 Guardian 13 Aug. 10/7 Warsaw zoo..would like a donor to help enlarge its cramped hippo enclosure.

2010 J. Balcombe Second Nature x. 168 A recent field survey found that hippo populations in the Democratic Republic of Congo have declined more than 95 percent.

C2. Parasynthetic, as hippo-headed, hippo-mouthed, hippo-shaped, etc.

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1912 Proc. Royal Soc. B. 85 431 Another difference between the two species [sc. of protozoa] is the occurrence of the broad, blunt-ended forms—the hippo-headed—among the short and stumpy.

1946 Time 4 Feb. 20/1 Martha Raye, hippo-mouthed comedienne, was victimized by a busy Manhattan jewel thief.

1961 Guardian 17 Oct. 9/6 A lot of the satire was as hippo-footed as its object.

1979 P. Costello Magic Zoo xv. 117 During the First Dynasty priests of Horus at Solfu would row out into the middle of the sacred lake there and dismember a hippo-shaped cake.

2005 Times 27 Sept. (Public Agenda section) 8/4 Moomins can change your life... The hippo-faced creations of Tove Jansson..can open up whole worlds to English children.

C3.

hippo whip n. a long whip made from a twisted strip of hippopotamus hide.

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1884 C. G. Gordon Jrnl. 25 Sept. in Jrnls. at Kartoum (1885) 67 Cassim gave him a wipe over the head with his Hippo whip.

1917 H. K. W. Kumm Afr. Missionary Heroes & Heroines ii. 34 Through the long grass trailed the last of the victims, driven onward by the lashes of the hippo whips.

2011 New Times (Kigali, Rwanda) (Nexis) 8 Sept. Gosh! Would that police moved around with a hippo whip for such accursed drivers!

Derivatives

ˈhippo-like adv. and adj. (a) adv. in the manner of a hippo; (b) adj. resembling or characteristic of a hippo.

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1922 H. B. Hermon-Hodge Up against it in Nigeria xi. 191 His body was completely submerged—only the load and a jet of water, spurting hippo-like from his mouth, being visible above the surface.

1936 Sci. News Let. 5 Dec. 361/2 Rhinoceroses of the Old West were built more like hippopotamuses, and very likely lived aquatic, hippo-like lives.

1985 Guardian 6 Feb. (Women section) 9/2 Things slowed down for a while as I trundled, hippo-like, around the house.

2008 Daily Star (Nexis) 10 July 6 She reckons that the best cure for her hippo-like snores is a strip for her nose.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	hippo
释义	hippon. Brit. /ˈhɪpəʊ/, U.S. /ˈhɪpoʊ/, South African English /ˈhɪpəʊ/ Inflections: Plural hippos, hippoes, unchanged. Forms: 1800s hippo. (with point), 1800s– hippo. Origin: Formed within English, by clipping or shortening. Etymon: hippopotamus n. Etymology: Shortened < hippopotamus n., probably originally as a graphic abbreviation.Compare the following earlier passage, which probably shows a graphic contraction of the singular hippopotamus (including its final letter), rather than a plural form of hippo:1825 Let. 3 Oct. in Morning Post 20 Dec. The man fortunately fell with the tree into one of the pits dug to catch the hippo's. 1. Originally colloquial. A hippopotamus. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > order Artiodactyla (cloven-hoofed animals) > [noun] > group Suiformes (hippos and pigs) > family Hippopotamidae > hippopotamus, amphibiusi, or hippo hippopotamusa1398 water horsea1398 river horse1583 seahorse1600 sea-ox1600 morse1703 sea-cow1731 hippo1850 1850 Boston Post 1 July 1/6 The Hippo., however,..laps up the trash as if it were wandering in the lap of luxury. 1859 Evening Star 26 Sept. Here we left all the Makolo but two to cut up the hippo and dry it. 1893 F. C. Selous Trav. S.-E. Afr. 65 Our guide now wished me to remain here that I might look for the hippos. 1907 Geogr. Jrnl. 29 21 Hippo are very plentiful in the lower reaches of the Limpopo river. 1947 P. J. Pretorius Jungle Man 74 I didn't kill a single hippo that day. 1998 Mirror 18 July 3 (caption) The baby hippo's arrival delighted staff at the safari park. 2016 J. Buckley Spiders & Other Deadly Animals vi. 85 Hippos have been called one of the most dangerous animals in Africa. 2. South African. Also with capital initial. An armoured vehicle used by the police as a personnel carrier. Now historical. ΚΠ 1976 Drum (Johannesburg) July 28 Rocks were thrown. Shots were fired. And the anti-terrorist squad came onto the scene in their hippos. 1988 K. Barris Small Change 78 There was a Hippo pulled off the road—a high, armoured, mine-proof vehicle. 2009 J. Peffer Art & End of Apartheid iv. 127 New methods for urban onslaught and new machines, like the Hippos, were introduced to daily terrorize and ‘pacify’ the residents in the black locations. 3. Chiefly British. Also with capital initial. A flat-bottomed plastic bag filled with water and placed in the cistern of a toilet in order to reduce the cistern's capacity and thus reduce the amount of water used each time the toilet is flushed. Also more fully hippo bag. ΚΠ 1997 Sunday Tel. 9 Feb. 18/1 The ‘Hippo’ is the brain-child of Paul Adshead... The thick blue plastic bag opens out to form an open box. It is placed in the cistern and filled with water. 1997 Guardian 12 Apr. (The Week section) 2/7 10 things you can do to save water. 1. Invest in a ‘hippo bag’. 2005 Hansard Commons 23 Nov. 2024 w The actions that the customers can take..include carrying out water efficiency audits and the installation of Hippo bags in larger toilet cisterns. 2013 @environmentor 12 Mar. in twitter.com (O.E.D. Archive) Put a hippo in your toilet cistern and fit push taps to sinks in an effort to save water #greentips. Compounds (In sense 1.) C1. General attributive and objective, as hippo enclosure, hippo hunting, hippo meat, etc. ΚΠ 1854 Royal Cornwall Gaz. 21 July 1/1 (advt.) Mine Materials..1 Butt and 1 Hippo Hide of Leather. 1867 S. W. Baker Nile Tributaries Abyssinia xv. 396 These men arrived with the long ropes that form a portion of the outfit for hippo hunting. 1902 J. Conrad Heart of Darkness ii, in Youth 107 They had brought along a provision of hippo-meat which went rotten, and made the wilderness stink in my nostrils. 1936 Times of India 11 Jan. 23/4 Hippo Ivory is whiter than elephant ivory and there is little or no grain. 1996 Guardian 13 Aug. 10/7 Warsaw zoo..would like a donor to help enlarge its cramped hippo enclosure. 2010 J. Balcombe Second Nature x. 168 A recent field survey found that hippo populations in the Democratic Republic of Congo have declined more than 95 percent. C2. Parasynthetic, as hippo-headed, hippo-mouthed, hippo-shaped, etc. ΚΠ 1912 Proc. Royal Soc. B. 85 431 Another difference between the two species [sc. of protozoa] is the occurrence of the broad, blunt-ended forms—the hippo-headed—among the short and stumpy. 1946 Time 4 Feb. 20/1 Martha Raye, hippo-mouthed comedienne, was victimized by a busy Manhattan jewel thief. 1961 Guardian 17 Oct. 9/6 A lot of the satire was as hippo-footed as its object. 1979 P. Costello Magic Zoo xv. 117 During the First Dynasty priests of Horus at Solfu would row out into the middle of the sacred lake there and dismember a hippo-shaped cake. 2005 Times 27 Sept. (Public Agenda section) 8/4 Moomins can change your life... The hippo-faced creations of Tove Jansson..can open up whole worlds to English children. C3. hippo whip n. a long whip made from a twisted strip of hippopotamus hide. ΚΠ 1884 C. G. Gordon Jrnl. 25 Sept. in Jrnls. at Kartoum (1885) 67 Cassim gave him a wipe over the head with his Hippo whip. 1917 H. K. W. Kumm Afr. Missionary Heroes & Heroines ii. 34 Through the long grass trailed the last of the victims, driven onward by the lashes of the hippo whips. 2011 New Times (Kigali, Rwanda) (Nexis) 8 Sept. Gosh! Would that police moved around with a hippo whip for such accursed drivers! Derivatives ˈhippo-like adv. and adj. (a) adv. in the manner of a hippo; (b) adj. resembling or characteristic of a hippo. ΚΠ 1922 H. B. Hermon-Hodge Up against it in Nigeria xi. 191 His body was completely submerged—only the load and a jet of water, spurting hippo-like from his mouth, being visible above the surface. 1936 Sci. News Let. 5 Dec. 361/2 Rhinoceroses of the Old West were built more like hippopotamuses, and very likely lived aquatic, hippo-like lives. 1985 Guardian 6 Feb. (Women section) 9/2 Things slowed down for a while as I trundled, hippo-like, around the house. 2008 Daily Star (Nexis) 10 July 6 She reckons that the best cure for her hippo-like snores is a strip for her nose. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022). > see also also refers to : hippo-comb. form < n.1850 see also
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