wip

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Dutch

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ʋɪp/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɪp

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch wippe, wip, originally a verbal noun of wippen. Compare Old High German wipf (a rapid movement).

Noun

wip m (uncountable)

  1. hopping

Noun

wip c (plural wippen, diminutive wipje n)

  1. seesaw
    Synonyms: wipwap, (Brabantian, Booms) wippetater
  2. lever on a drawbridge
  3. (informal) a short period, a jiffy
    Synonyms: handomdraai, ommezien
  4. (informal) sexual intercourse
    Synonyms: seks, geslachtsgemeenschap
Derived terms

Etymology 2

Verb

wip

  1. inflection of wippen:
    1. first-person singular present indicative
    2. (in case of inversion) second-person singular present indicative
    3. imperative

Jamaican Creole

Etymology

Derived from English whip.

Pronunciation

Noun

wip (plural wip dem, quantified wip)

  1. whip
    • 2012, Di Jamiekan Nyuu Testiment, Edinburgh: DJB, published 2012, →ISBN, Jan 2:15:
      So im get som ruop an tek dem mek wan wip. Den im yuuz di wip an ron out di uol a di sela dem outa di yaad: dem an dem kou an dem shiip an dem dov. Im lik uova di piipl dem we a chienj out moni kain dem, an im ton uova aal a dem tiebl dem.
      And making a whip of cords, he drove them all out of the temple, with the sheep and oxen. And he poured out the coins of the money-changers and overturned their tables.

Verb

wip

  1. to whip (to hit with a whip)

Middle High German

Etymology

Inherited from Old High German wīp, wīb.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): (before 13th CE) /ˈwiːp/

Noun

wīp n

  1. woman
    • c. 1200, Der Nibelunge Nôt, Av. 1:
      si wart ein schœne wîp. / dar umbe muosen degene  vil verliesen den lîp.
      She became a beautiful woman. For her many knights would lose their lives.

Declension

Descendants

  • German: Weib

References

  • Benecke, Georg Friedrich, Müller, Wilhelm, Zarncke, Friedrich (1863) “wîp”, in Mittelhochdeutsches Wörterbuch: mit Benutzung des Nachlasses von Benecke, Stuttgart: S. Hirzel

Tok Pisin

Etymology

From English whip.

Noun

wip

  1. whip