hippy
English edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
Noun edit
hippy (plural hippies)
- Alternative spelling of hippie
Etymology 2 edit
Adjective edit
hippy (comparative hippier, superlative hippiest)
- Having large or prominent hips.
- 1945, John Steinbeck, Cannery Row:
- The girls were hefty, big-breasted and strong and their blonde hair was in slight disarray. […] They were full-lipped, broad-nosed, hippy girls and they were very tired.
Translations edit
Translations
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French edit
Noun edit
hippy m or f by sense (plural hippys)
- Alternative spelling of hippie
Further reading edit
- “hippy”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Romanian edit
Etymology edit
Unadapted borrowing from English hippy.
Adjective edit
hippy m or f or n (indeclinable)
Declension edit
Declension of hippy (invariable)
singular | plural | ||||||
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masculine | neuter | feminine | masculine | neuter | feminine | ||
nominative/ accusative |
indefinite | hippy | hippy | hippy | hippy | ||
definite | — | — | — | — | |||
genitive/ dative |
indefinite | hippy | hippy | hippy | hippy | ||
definite | — | — | — | — |
Noun edit
hippy m (plural hippy)
Declension edit
Spanish edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Unadapted borrowing from English hippie.
Noun edit
hippy m (plural hippys)
Usage notes edit
According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.
Further reading edit
- “hippy”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014