hippy

• enPR: hĭp'ē, IPA^(key): /ˈhɪpi/

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• Rhymes: -ɪpi

hippy (plural hippies)

1. Alternative spelling of hippie

hippy (comparative hippier, superlative hippiest)

1. 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.

hippy m or f by sense (plural hippys)

1. Alternative spelling of hippie

• “hippy”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Unadapted borrowing from English hippy.

hippy m or f or n (indeclinable)

1. hippy

hippy m (plural hippy)

1. hippy

   Synonym: hipiot

• jipi

Unadapted borrowing from English hippie.

hippy m (plural hippys)

1. hippie

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.

• “hippy”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10