hypped, ppl. a.
(hɪpt)
Also 8 hyp'd, hypp'd, 8–9 hypt. Later hipped, q.v.
[f. hyp + -ed.]
Affected with hypochondria; morbidly depressed or low-spirited.
| c 1710 J. Edwards in Camb. Antiq. Soc. Com. III. 130 Allmost half of them are Hypt (as they call it), that is, disordered in their brains. 1784 J. Belknap in B. Papers (1877) II. 178 It was the common opinion among his friends that he was hyp'd. 1799 Coleridge Lett. (1895) 296, I..spent a day with them. They were melancholy and hypped. 1824 Lamb Lett. (1888) II. 101, I am much hypt. 1853 Mrs. Gaskell Ruth Wks. 1863 VI. 200 On a dull Sunday, when people are apt to get hypped if not well amused. |