hippy

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: hĭp'ē, IPA^(key): /ˈhɪpi/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -ɪpi

Etymology 1

Noun

hippy (plural hippies)

1. Alternative spelling of hippie

Etymology 2

Adjective

hippy (comparative hippier, superlative hippiest)

1. Having large or prominent hips.
   • 1945, John Steinbeck, Cannery Row:

     The girls were hefty, big-breasted and strong and their blonde hair was in slight disarray. […] They were full-lipped, broad-nosed, hippy girls and they were very tired.

Translations

Translations

• Polish: biodrzasty (pl), biodrzysty (uncommon)

French

Noun

hippy m or f by sense (plural hippys)

1. Alternative spelling of hippie

Further reading

• “hippy”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Romanian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English hippy.

Adjective

hippy m or f or n (indeclinable)

1. hippy

Declension

Declension of hippy (invariable)

		singular			plural
		masculine	neuter	feminine	masculine	neuter	feminine
nominative/ accusative	indefinite	hippy		hippy	hippy	hippy
	definite	—		—	—	—
genitive/ dative	indefinite	hippy		hippy	hippy	hippy
	definite	—		—	—	—

Noun

hippy m (plural hippy)

1. hippy

   Synonym: hipiot

Declension

Declension of hippy

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) hippy	hippyul	(niște) hippy	hippyi
genitive/dative	(unui) hippy	hippyului	(unor) hippy	hippylor
vocative	hippyule		hippylor

Spanish

Alternative forms

• jipi

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English hippie.

Noun

hippy m (plural hippys)

1. hippie

Usage notes

According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.

Further reading

• “hippy”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014