hippin - From Ulster to America
Source: From Ulster to America: The Scotch-Irish Heritage of American English
Author: Michael Montgomery
Comments: From Ulster to America recounts the lasting impact eighteenth-century settlers from Ulster have made on the development of the English language of the United States. The book documents over 500 vocabulary items contributed to American English by these ‘Scotch-Irish’ settlers. Each ‘shared’ term with its meaning is authenticated by quotations from both sides of the Atlantic. This searchable online version of his book takes its text from the dictionary part of the second edition published by the Ullans Press in 2017.
hippin, hippen n A diaper, nappy. [< hip + -ing; oed n variant of hipping2 ‘a napkin wrapt about the hips of an infant’ 1768→, Scottish and northern dialect; snd hippin ‘a baby’s napkin’ 1731→; dare hippen n ‘a baby’s diaper’ chiefly South, South Midland]
Ulst.:
1906 Marshall Dial of Ulster 19 hippins = baby clothes.
1928 MacGill Black Bonar 173 I saw her in hippens.
1953 Traynor Donegal Glossary 142 hippens = swaddling clothes.
2014 Fenton Hamely Tongue 121 hippin = a child’s nappy.
U.S.:
1917 Kephart Word-list 413 = a diaper, breech clout.
1953 Randolph and Wilson Down in Holler 252 hippin’s = diapers.
c1975 Lunsford It Used To Be 174 ‘Didies’ and ‘Hippins’ are expressions used for diapers.
