kip

kip · noun¹

1. Middle Low German · derived fromkip“pack, bundle of hides”
2. Middle Dutch · derived fromkip
3. Middle English · inherited fromkipp
4. English todaykip

1325–75, Middle English kipp, from Middle Dutch kip, from Middle Low German kip (“pack, bundle of hides”).

kip · noun, verb²

1760–70, probably related to Danish kippe (“dive, hovel, cheap inn”) and Middle Low German kiffe (“hovel”). From the same distant Germanic root as cove.

kip · verb³

1. Middle Dutch · derived fromkippen“to grasp, seize, catch”
2. Old Norse · derived fromkippa“to pull; snatch”
3. Middle English · inherited fromkippen
4. English todaykip

From Middle English kippen, from Old Norse kippa (“to pull; snatch”) or Middle Dutch kippen (“to grasp, seize, catch”). Cognate with Norwegian kippe (“to snatch”), Swedish kippa (“to snatch; jerk”); Dutch kippen (“to seize; catch”). Perhaps conflated with some senses of Middle English kepen (“to keep, observe, guard, take possession of, snatch”) (see keep).

kip · noun⁴

1910–15, Americanism, abbreviated from kilo + pound.

kip · noun⁵

1. Lao · borrowed fromກີບ
2. English todaykip

1950–55, from Lao ກີບ (kīp).

kip · noun⁶

Unknown. Perhaps related to Yorkshire and Lincolnshire dialect kep, to toss up into the air. Or else, perhaps related to German Kippe (“stub”).

kip · noun, verb⁷

From kip (“sleep, lie down”).

Kip · proper noun⁸

Clipping of Kipling.

Words from the same roots