kip

English

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Kip

Wikipedia

Pronunciation

• enPR: kĭp, IPA^(key): /kɪp/

• Audio (Southern England)

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• Rhymes: -ɪp

Etymology 1

1325–75, Middle English kipp, from Middle Dutch kip, from Middle Low German kip (“pack, bundle of hides”).

Alternative forms

• kipp, kippe, kyppe

Noun

kip (countable and uncountable, plural kips)

1. The untanned hide of a young or small beast, such as a calf, lamb, or young goat.
2. A bundle or set of such hides.
3. (obsolete) A unit of count for skins, 30 for lamb and 50 for goat.
4. The leather made from such hide.
   • 1902, Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens), A Double Barrelled Detective Story:

     'Stockings, madam? Shoes?'
     'Yes, your Honor — both.'
     'Yarn, perhaps? Morocco?'
     'Yarn, your Honor. And kip.'

Translations

Etymology 2

1760–70, probably related to Danish kippe (“dive, hovel, cheap inn”) and Middle Low German kiffe (“hovel”). From the same distant Germanic root as cove.

Noun

kip (plural kips)

1. (informal, chiefly UK, Ireland) A place to sleep; a rooming house; a bed.
2. (informal, chiefly UK, Australia) Sleep, snooze, nap, forty winks, doze.

   I’m just going for my afternoon kip.

3. (informal, chiefly UK, Ireland) A very untidy house or room.
4. (informal, chiefly UK, dated) A brothel.

Derived terms

• kip-shop

Translations

Verb

kip (third-person singular simple present kips, present participle kipping, simple past and past participle kipped)

1. (informal, chiefly UK) To sleep; often with the connotation of a temporary or charitable situation, or one borne out of necessity.

   Synonym: (US) crash

   Don’t worry, I’ll kip on the sofabed.

   • 1971, Richard Carpenter, Catweazle and the Magic Zodiac, Harmondsworth: Puffin Books, page 56:

     "Steady on, mate. How was I to know this was your gaff? I was lookin' for somewhere to kip."

   • 1997, J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, New York: Arthur A. Levine Books, published 1998, page 60:

     He took off his thick black coat and threw it to Harry.
     "You can kip under that," he said. "Don' mind it if wriggles a bit, I think I still got a couple o' dormice in one o' the pockets."

Derived terms

• kip down

Translations

Etymology 3

From Middle English kippen, from Old Norse kippa (“to pull; snatch”) or Middle Dutch kippen (“to grasp, seize, catch”). Cognate with Norwegian kippe (“to snatch”), Swedish kippa (“to snatch; jerk”); Dutch kippen (“to seize; catch”). Perhaps conflated with some senses of Middle English kepen (“to keep, observe, guard, take possession of, snatch”) (see keep).

Verb

kip (third-person singular simple present kips, present participle kipping, simple past and past participle kipped)

2. (transitive, dialectal, Scotland, Northern England) To snatch; take up hastily; filch
3. (intransitive, obsolete) To hold or keep (together)
4. (intransitive, dialectal, Northern England) To conduct oneself; act

Etymology 4

 kip (force) on Wikipedia

1910–15, Americanism, abbreviated from kilo + pound.

Noun

kip (plural kips)

1. A unit of force equal to 1000 pounds-force (lbf) (4.44822 kilonewtons or 4448.22 newtons); occasionally called the kilopound.
2. A unit of weight, used, for example, to calculate shipping charges, equal to half a US ton, or 1000 pounds.
3. (rare, nonstandard) A unit of mass equal to 1000 avoirdupois pounds.

Etymology 5

 Lao kip on Wikipedia

1950–55, from Lao ກີບ (kīp).

Noun

kip (plural kip)

1. The unit of currency in Laos, divided into 100 att, symbol ₭, abbreviation LAK.

Translations

Etymology 6

Unknown. Perhaps related to Yorkshire and Lincolnshire dialect kep, to toss up into the air. Or else, perhaps related to German Kippe (“stub”).

Noun

kip (plural kips)

1. (Australia, games, two-up) A piece of flat wood used to throw the coins in a game of two-up.
   • 1951, Jon Cleary, The Sundowners, published 1952, page 208:

     Again Turk placed the pennies on the kip. He took his time, deliberate over the small action, held the kip for a long breathless moment, then jerked his wrist and the pennies were in the air.

   • 2003, Gilbert Buchanan, Malco Polia - Traveller, Warrior, page 52:

     Money was laid on the floor for bets on the heads or tails finish of two pennies tossed high into the air from a small wooden kip.

   • 2010, Colin McLaren, Sunflower: A Tale of Love, War and Intrigue, page 101:

     Jack discarded a length of wood, two twists of wire, his two-up kip and a spanner.

References

Etymology 7

 kip (artistic gymnastics) on Wikipedia

Unknown.

Noun

kip (plural kips)

1. (gymnastics) A basic skill or maneuver in artistic gymnastics on the uneven bars, parallel bars, high bar and still rings used, for example, as a way of mounting the bar in a front support position, or achieving a handstand from a hanging position. In its basic form, the legs are swung forward and upward by bending the hips, then suddenly down again, which gives the upward impulse to the body.
2. (Scotland) A sharp-pointed hill; a projecting point, as on a hill.

Derived terms

• kip-up

Translations

Verb

kip (third-person singular simple present kips, present participle kipping, simple past and past participle kipped)

1. (gymnastics, intransitive) To perform the kip maneuver.

Anagrams

• KPI, PKI

Azerbaijani

Pronunciation

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Adjective

kip (comparative daha kip, superlative ən kip)

1. tight, close (firmly held together; compact; not loose or open)

Adverb

kip

1. tight

   kip oturmaq ― to sit closely

   qapını kip örtmək ― to shut the door tightly

   • 1988, Afaq Məsud, Qəza‎:

     Paltarın hər iki yanı hazır idi. Qalxıb gecə köynəyini soyundu, paltarı geyinib güzgünün qabağında dayandı. Paltar əyninə kip otururdu.

     Both sides of the dress were ready. She got up, took off her nightgown, put on the dress, and stood in front of the mirror. The dress sat tightly on her body.

Derived terms

• kip-kip

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɪp/

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• Hyphenation: kip
• Rhymes: -ɪp

Etymology 1

Possibly from an imitative birdcall. Not found in Middle Dutch or other Germanic languages. Displaced the older term hen in northern Dutch around the 18th century. The policeman sense might be from French "poulet", refering to police station in Paris that was built over a former farm.

Noun

kip f (plural kippen, diminutive kippetje n or kipje n)

1. (chiefly Netherlands) A chicken, Gallus gallus domesticus.

   Synonym: huishoen

2. A female chicken, a hen.

   Synonyms: hen, hoen, kieken

3. (dated, slang, Netherlands) Synonym of politieagent

Derived terms

Descendants

• Petjo: kip (archaic)
• → Loup A: kipkip
• → Mohawk: kítkit
• → Oneida: kítkit
• → Mohegan-Pequot: kikipus

Further reading

• kip (vogel) on the Dutch Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^nl

Etymology 2

From Lao ກີບ (kīp).

Noun

kip m (uncountable)

1. Kip, currency in Laos.

References

Anagrams

• pik

Jamaican Creole

Alternative forms

• keep

Etymology

Derived from English keep.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kiːp/

Verb

kip

1. to keep.
   • 2012, Di Jamiekan Nyuu Testiment, Edinburgh: DJB, published 2012, →ISBN, 1 Korintiyan 16:13:

     Kip unu yai dem uopm, tan op chrang fi wa unu biliiv, no fried a notn an gwaan kip chrang.

     Keep your eyes open, stand up for what you believe in, fear nothing and keep strong.

2. to hold a ceremony or event.
   • 1972, “Beardman Feast”, performed by Max Romeo, (acrolectal):

     It was Saint Thomas in the east / There some bearded man keep a big feast

     It was Saint Thomas (parish) in the east / There some bearded men held a big feast

   • 2022 December 18, Carolyn Cooper, “Jamaica a ‘poster child’ fi true”, in The Gleaner:

     Ascorden to one Gleaner report weh come out Monday gone, prime minister Andrew Holness keep one big meeting pon Internet fi di Jamaican dem a farin.

     According to a Gleaner report that came out last Monday, prime minister Andrew Holness held a big meeting on the Internet for foreign Jamaicans.

Further reading

• Frederic Gomes Cassidy ((Can we date this quote?)) Dictionary of Jamaican English‎, page 258

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

Borrowed from English cheap.

Adjective

kip (neuter kipt, definite singular and plural kipe, comparative kipare, indefinite superlative kipast, definite superlative kipaste)

1. (pre-2005) alternative form of kjip

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kip/

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• Rhymes: -ip
• Syllabification: kip

Verb

kip

1. second-person singular imperative of kipieć

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French kip.

Noun

kip m (plural kipi)

1. kip

Declension

References

• kip in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From a Turkic language.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kîːp/

Noun

kȋp m (Cyrillic spelling ки̑п)

1. statue

   Kip Slobode ― the Statue of Liberty

   Zeusov kip u Olimpiji ― the statue of Zeus at Olympia

   arheolog je pažljivo ispitao kip ― archeologist has carefully examined the statue

Declension

Derived terms

• ukípiti

References

• “kip” in Hrvatski jezični portal

Slovene

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kíːp/

Noun

kȋp m inan

1. statue

Inflection

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Tocharian A

Etymology

Compare Tocharian B kwīpe.

Noun

kip m

1. shame

Turkish

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Karakhanid كِيبْ (kīp), ultimately from Proto-Turkic *gēp. Doublet of gibi. Introduced during the language reform, displaced the Ottoman Turkish انموزج (enmûzec).

Noun

kip (definite accusative kipi, plural kipler)

1. (grammar) verb mood

Declension

Derived terms

• gibi

References

• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “kip”, in Nişanyan Sözlük

West Uvean

Etymology

From English key.

Noun

kip

1. key

References

• Claire Moyse-Faurie, Borrowings from Romance languages in Oceanic languages, in Aspects of Language Contact (2008, →ISBN