▪ I. hipped, hipt, a.1
(hɪpt)
[f. hip n.1 and v.2 + -ed.]
1. Having hips: esp. in comb., as large-hipped.
| 1508 Dunbar Flyting w. Kennedie 179 Hippit as ane horrow. 1597 A. M. tr. Guillemeau's Fr. Chirurg. 50 b/2 To be hipped and legged, or have a payere of goode and stedfast stiltes vnder them. 1611 Cotgr., Hanchu,..great hipt. 1854 H. H. Wilson tr. Rig-veda II. 289 Wide-hipped Sin{iacu}vál{iacu} ..grant us, goddess, progeny. |
2. Arch. Of a roof: Having hips (see hip n.1 3).
| 1823 P. Nicholson Pract. Build. 129 A hiped roof, over a rectangular plan. 1870 F. R. Wilson Ch. Lindisf. 50 The tower is covered with a hipped, slated roof. |
3. Having the hip injured or dislocated; lamed in the hip; hip-shot.
| 1565–73 Cooper Thesaurus, Delumbata quadrupide, the beast being hipped. 1607 Topsell Four-f. Beasts (1658) 315 The Horse is said to be hipt, when the hip-bone is removed out of his right place..It cometh most commonly by some great stripe or strain. 1709 Lond. Gaz. No. 4601/4 All black, with his further Hip hipped. 1799 [see hip-shot 1]. |
▪ II. hipped, a.2 colloq.
(hɪpt)
Also 8 hip'd, hipt.
[Altered spelling of hypt, hypp'd, f. hip n.3, orig. hyp.]
Affected with hypochondria; morbidly depressed or low-spirited.
| 1710 [see hypt]. 1712 Steele Spect. No. 284 ¶4, I have been to the last Degree hipped since I saw you. 1833 Longfellow Outre-mer Prose Wks. 1886 I. 120 What with his bad habits and his domestic grievances, he became completely hipped. 1887 Smiles Life & Labour 446 When he..had nothing to do, he became hipped, then ill, and then was told that he was dying. |
▪ III. hipped, ppl. a.
see hip v.5