▪ I. hyp colloq. ? Obs.
(hɪp)
Also pl. hyps.
[Abbreviation of hypochondria. See hip n.3 and hypo.]
Usually the hyp, the hyps: hypochondria, morbid depression of spirits.
| c 1705 Berkeley in Fraser Life (1871) 422 Hyps and such like unaccountable things. 1712 Thoresby Diary (ed. Hunter) II. 120 So overrun with the hyps, that he told me he thought he should not live till night. 1731 Swift Cassinus & Peter 35 Heav'n send thou hast not got the hyps! 1736 Gray Lett. Wks. 1884 II. 5 If the default of your spirits and nerves be nothing but the effect of the hyp, I have no more to say. 1738 Swift Pol. Conversat. Introd. 51 Some Abbreviations exquisitely refined; as..Hypps, or Hippo, for Hypochondriacks. 1806–7 J. Beresford Miseries Hum. Life (1826) Post. Groans v, An unconquerable fit of sullenness, indolence, the hyp, or the head-ache. 1825 R. P. Ward Tremaine II. i. 2 Belmont was a melancholy place, and I was dying there of hyp! |
| attrib. 1731 Lett. fr. Fog's Jrnl. (1732) II. 236 As to..your Hyp-Doctors..and your Country Parsons, let him leave all these Fellows to my Management. |
▪ II. hyp
obs. form of hip.
▪ III. hyp
var. hype n.1