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Hypo vs Hyp - What's the difference?

hypo | hyp |

As nouns the difference between hypo and hyp

is that hypo is melancholy; a fit of ‘hypochondria’; a morbid depression (obsolete by 1881 according to Eric Partridge while hyp is hypnotism; hypnotist.

As a verb hyp is

to make melancholy.

As an initialism HYP is

harvard/Yale/Princeton.

hypo

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (obsolete) Melancholy; a fit of ‘hypochondria’; a morbid depression (obsolete by 1881 according to Eric Partridge.
  • *1711' "I have a better Stomach tha usuall and have perfectly forgot what the '''Hyppo means",Joseph Collett, merchant, writing from Rio de Janeiro, Oct 15, 1711, in his ''Private Letter Books'', edited by H. H. Dodwell in 1933. (cited by Eric Partidge, ''A Dictionary of Slang and Unconventinoal English
  • *1837' Abraham Lincoln: Tell your sister I dont want to hear any more about selling out and moving. That gives me the '''hypo whenever I think of it. (Letter to Mary S. Owens,May 7. 1837 , ''Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln . Volume 1.
  • *1851 , Herman Melville, Moby-Dick :
  • *:whenever my hypos get such an upper hand of me, that it requires a strong moral principle to prevent me from deliberately stepping into the street, and methodically knocking people's hats off--then, I account it high time to get to sea as soon as I can.
  • *:But thou sayest, methinks that white-lead chapter about whiteness is but a white flag hung out from a craven soul; thou surrenderest to a hypo , Ishmael.(Chapter 42, "The Whiteness of the Whale")
  • (photography) sodium thiosulfate, a photographic fixing agent.
  • (slang) A hypoglycaemia attack in a person with diabetes.
  • (informal) The substance sodium hyposulfite.
  • (slang) A hypodermic syringe.
  • (slang, finance, British) Hypothecation.
  • (informal, among law students and their professors) A hypothetical case.
  • (informal, zoology) A hypomelanistic snake.

    • Usage notes

    * usually in contexts where it is clear which specific term is meant.

    See also

    * hypo-

    hyp

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (entertainment) hypnotism; hypnotist
    • A hyp act is scheduled after the acrobats.
    The hyp is booked through the end of the month.
  • (mathematics) hypotenuse
  • hypochondria
  • * Jonathan Swift
    • Heaven send thou hast not got the hyps .

    Alternative forms

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    References

    * (entertainment) Usage in both ways in Swift

    Verb

    (hypp)
  • (colloquial, dated) To make melancholy.
    • (Washington Irving)

    Anagrams

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