Lexicographical Neighbors of Hippen
Literary usage of Hippen
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Transactions of the Philological Society by Philological Society (Great Britain). (1901)
"1139, where we find : " die hippen, a wafer-shaped cake, which was rolled together
after being baked." Oddly enough, this word was used with yet a third ..."
2. An Essay on the Archaeology of Our Popular Phrases, and Nursery Rhymes by John Bellenden Ker (1837)
"But I take hippen, in this meaning, to be a modification of happen, to cut off;
and quite another word from hippen, to hatch, to come out of the egg. ..."
3. The Young Engineers in Mexico: Or, Fighting the Mine Swindlers by Harrie Irving Hancock (1913)
"called Mr. hippen, running to the corner of the porch. ... Mr. hippen, too,
started down the roadway, seeing which Dr. Tisco reached his side and went with ..."
4. Publications by English Dialect Society (1894)
"There is a very similar word, hippen. An impatient audience in the theatre
expresses its disgust at the delay in raising the curtain by cries of " Hoist the ..."
5. A Dictionary of Slang, Jargon & Cant: Embracing English, American, and Anglo by Albert Barrère, Charles Godfrey Leland (1889)
"Hence in Glasgow the gods shout " Up with the hippen !" His nabs there (tailors),
him, the individual referred to. A variant of " his nibs. ..."
6. Historical Sketches of Statesmen who Flourished in the Time of George III. by Baron Henry Brougham Brougham and Vaux (1853)
"... from his well-known saying •impeding that honest man—" I won't say who is
corrupt, .ut who is not corruptible I will say, and that is Mr. "hippen. ..."
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