HIP-HOP, verb (old).—To skip or move on one leg; to hop. 'A cant word framed by the reduplication of hop.'—Johnson, 1812.
1670-1729. CONGREVE [Quoted in JOHNSON's Eng. Dict.]. Like Volscius HIP-HOP in a single boot.
HIP-INSIDE, subs, (thieves').—An inner pocket. HIP-OUTSIDE = an outer ditto.
1857. SNOWDEN, Mag. Assistant (3rd Ed.), p. 445, s.v.
HIPPED (or HIPPISH), adj. (common). —Bored; melancholical; out of sorts. [From HYPochondria.]
1710. GAY, Wine in Wks. (1811) p. 348. By cares depress'd, in pensive HIPPISH mood.
1712. Spectator, No. 284. I cannot forbear writing to you, to tell you I have been to the last degree HIPPED since I saw you.
1837. BARHAM Ingoldsby Legends, 'Babes in the Wood.' The wicked old Uncle, they say, In spite of his riot and revel, Was HIPPISH and qualmish all day, And dreamt all night long of the devil.
1864. DICKENS, Our Mutual Friend, bk. III., ch. x. 'You are a little HIPPED, dear fellow,' said Eugene; you have been too sedentary. Come and enjoy the pleasures of the chase.'
HIPPEN, subs.(Scots': colloquial)—baby's napkin (i.e., HIPPING cloth). Also (theatrical), the green curtain.
HIREN, subs, (old).—I. A prostitute. [A corruption of 'Irene,' the heroine in Poole's play: see quot. 1584.] For synonyms, see BARRACK-HACK and TART.
1584. Poole, The Turkish Mahomet and Hyren the Fair Greek. Note. In Italian called a courtezan; in Spaine a margarite; in English . . . a punk.
1598. SHAKESPEARE, 2 Henry IV., ii., 4. Have we not HIREN here?
1615. ADAMS, Spiritual Navigator. There be sirens in the sea of the world. Syrens? Hirens, as they are now called. What a number of these sirens [HIRENS], cockatrices, courteghians, in plain English, harlots, swimme amongst us!
d. 1618. SYLVESER, Trans. Du Bartas' Week of Creation, ii., 2, pt. 3. Of charming sin the deep-inchaunting syrens, The snares of virtue, valour-softening HYRENS.
2. (old).—A sword. Also a roaring bully; a fighting hector. [From Irene = the Goddess of Peace, a lucus a non lucendo.]
HISHEE-HASHEE. See SOAP-AND-BULLION.
His Nibs (or Nabs). See Nibs.
Hiss. THE HISS, subs. phr. (Winchester College).—The signal of a master's approach.
HISTORICAL- (WROUGHT, or ILLUSTRATED-) SHIRT, subs. (old). —A shirt or shift worked or woven with pictures or texts.
1596. BEN JONSON, Every Man out of his Humour; iv., 6. I wonder he speaks not of his WROUGHT-SHIRT.
1639. MAYNE, City Match, ii., 2. My smock sleeves have such holy imbroideries, And are so learned that I fear in time, All my apparel will be quoted by Some pure instructor.
1647. BEAUMONT and FLETCHER, Custom of the County, ii., I. Having a mistress, sure you should not be Without a neat HISTORICAL-SHIRT.
1848. Punch, XIV., 226. He never broke a bank, He shuns cross-barred trousers, His linen is not ILLUSTRATED, but beautifully clean.
1851. MAYHEW, Lond. Lab. and Lond. Poor, I., 51. Colored, or ILLUSTRATED SHIRTS, as they are called, are especially objected to by the men.
