| 单词 | in hippings |
| 释义 | > as lemmasin hippings 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. < as lemmas |
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