Hippe

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German

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈhɪpə/
  • Hyphenation: Hip‧pe

Etymology 1

From Middle High German heppe, happe, hipe, from Old High German heppa, hīpe, happa, from Proto-West Germanic *happjā. Compare Dutch heep.

Noun

Hippe f (genitive Hippe, plural Hippen)

  1. billhook (agricultural implement)
    • 1912, Martin Luther, Lutherbibel von 1912, Revelation 14:19 (with KJV translation)
      Und der Engel schlug an mit seiner Hippe an die Erde und schnitt die Trauben der Erde und warf sie in die große Kelter des Zorns Gottes.
      And the angel thrust in his sickle into the earth, and gathered the vine of the earth, and cast it into the great winepress of the wrath of God.
  2. (cooking) a kind of pastry shaped between a billhook and a horn
    • 1668, Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen, Der abenteuerliche Simplicissimus, Zweytes Buch. Das VI. Capitel:
      Einer hatte ein verguldtes Lavor voller Hippen / Zuckerbrot / Marzeban und ander Confect, der ander aber einen vergüldten Becher in Handen;
      One held a golden laver full of hook-pastries / sugarbread / marzipan and other confects, the other a gildet beaker in the hands;
      Translation by Aleksandr Morozov: Один держал золоченый умывальный таз, наполненный доверху вафлями, блинчиками, бисквитами, марципанами и разными другими заедками, а у другого в руках был золоченый кубок.
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Etymology 2

A regional feminine or back-formation from a diminutive of Proto-West Germanic *hafr (billygoat).

Alternative forms

Noun

Hippe f (genitive Hippe, plural Hippen) (regional)

  1. goat
    Synonym: Ziege
  2. (derogatory) cantankerous woman
    • 2004 [1994], Helge Schneider, “Zieh dich aus du alte Hippe”, in Arschfahl klebte der Mond am Fenster…, Kiepenheuer und Witsch, →ISBN, page 20:
      Als es dem Kommisar schmeckt, sieht sie gut aus. Er merkt es natürlich und wird scharf auf sie. »Zieh dich aus, du alte Hippe!« Mit verzerrtem Gesicht und verkniffenen Lippen steht er vor ihr und sagt das.
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