Hippe
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German
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Etymology 1
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From Middle High German heppe, happe, hipe, from Old High German heppa, hīpe, happa, from Proto-West Germanic *happjā. Compare Dutch heep.
Noun
[edit]Hippe f (genitive Hippe, plural Hippen)
- 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.
- 1912, Martin Luther, Lutherbibel von 1912, Revelation 14:19 (with KJV translation)
- (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;
Declension
[edit]Declension of Hippe [feminine]
Etymology 2
[edit]A regional feminine or back-formation from a diminutive of Proto-West Germanic *hafr (“billygoat”).
Alternative forms
[edit]Noun
[edit]Hippe f (genitive Hippe, plural Hippen) (regional)
- goat
- Synonym: Ziege
- (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.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Declension
[edit]Declension of Hippe [feminine]
References
[edit]- “Hippe (Messer, Sichel)” in Duden online
- “Hippe (Gebäck)” in Duden online
- “Hippe (Ziege)” in Duden online
- “Hippe” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
Hippe (Werkzeug) on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia de
Hippe (Gebäck) on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia de
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