α. 1700s hypish, 1700s– hyppish.
β. 1700s– hippish.
单词 | hippish |
释义 | hippishadj.α. 1700s hypish, 1700s– hyppish. β. 1700s– hippish. colloquial. Now archaic. Prone to hypochondria, or the hyp (hyp n.); in low spirits; given to unwarranted anxiety, esp. regarding one's health. Also: of, relating to, or characteristic of this state or condition. Cf. hipped adj.2Common in 18th and 19th centuries. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > suffering > dejection > melancholy > [adjective] > unwholesomely hippish1703 morbid1775 hippy1785 dyspeptic1894 1703 D. Defoe Dial. Dissenter & Observator 22 People, who are..a little Hypish, as the Beaus call it, troubled with the Spleen, and Hypocondriack Vapours. a1732 J. Gay Wine in S. Johnson Wks. Eng. Poets (1779) XLI. 283 By cares depress'd, in pensive hyppish mood. 1754 S. Mihles in tr. A. von Haller Physiol. II. 375 A variety of hippish, hysterical, nervous and polymorphous fevers. 1814 F. Burney Wanderer III. 79 Staying within doors gives one but a hippish turn. 1823 C. M. Westmacott Points of Misery 16 The disturbed imagination of the hyppish man. 1870 B. Disraeli Lothair I. xxii. 191 I tell you what, old fellow, you are rather hippish. 1930 Times Lit. Suppl. 17 Apr. 9/2 A hippish, elderly invalid, who from pure lack of will-power remains sequestered behind a row of medicine bottles. 1975 V. Nabokov in tr. A. S. Pushkin Eugene Onegin (rev. ed.) II. 214 While a hyppish Englishman shoots himself, a Russian chondriac shoots a friend. 2009 Notes & Rec. Royal Soc. 63 290 Beddoes..was preoccupied with his condition..forever ‘hyppish’.., fluttering over crises in his constitution, taking the spa waters. Derivatives ˈhippishness n. now rare hypochondria; (more generally) a tendency to melancholy, depression, or anxiety, esp. about one's health. ΚΠ 1730 W. Stevenson Conf. Miracles Blessed Saviour ii. 65 Physicians know that the Hysterick Illness in Women, and the Hypocondriac in Men, (which we call Vapours, and Hippishness) are real afflicting Distempers. 1860 S. Hannaford Sea & River-side Rambles in Victoria ii. 4 The mere anticipation of what we knew to be in store for us soon dispelled all the feeling of ‘hippishness’ which had beset us for many weeks previously. 1920 R. Kane Worth v. 193 What do we most often meet with in our modern cities? Stooped figures with shambling gait..[and] feeble fists... Hippishness is injurious to health. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1703 |
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