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Hipped vs Dipped - What's the difference?

hipped | dipped |

As adjectives the difference between hipped and dipped

is that hipped is having hips or a feature resembling hips or hipped can be aware, informed or hipped can be depressed while dipped is that has been briefly immersed in a liquid.

As verbs the difference between hipped and dipped

is that hipped is (hip) or hipped can be (hip) while dipped is (dip).

hipped

English

Etymology 1

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Having hips or a feature resembling hips.

    • Etymology 2

    From (verb)

    Verb

    (head)
  • (hip)

    • Etymology 3

    See

    Verb

    (head)
  • (hip)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Aware, informed.
  • *
  • Interested.

    • Etymology 4

    Compare hippish.

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Depressed.

    • dipped

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (dip)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • That has been briefly immersed in a liquid.
  • Of headlights: lowered.
  • (archaic, colloquial) Caught up in debt; mortgaged.
  • *1705 , (Bernard Mandeville), The Fable of the Bees :
  • *:The Lawyers [...] Opposed all Registers, that Cheats / Might make more Work with dipt Estates [...].