英语词汇hip的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

hip. There was supposedly a cool cat named Joe Hep who tended bar in Chicago during the 1890s and it was from this aware, all-knowing, disaffiliated man that we get the word hep, of which hip is a variant. Most scholars don’t go along with this theory, dividing their loyalties between the opium smoker’s term for smoking opium, on the hip (opium smokers often re- clined on one side while smoking), or the West African hipi, “to be aware,” or the African Walof hipicat (hence hepcat, too) meaning “one who has his eyes wide open.” All we really know is that hep was recorded first in 1903 and has by now been al- most totally replaced by its variant hip, which gave us the word hippie in the 1960s.

词汇	hip
词源	hip. There was supposedly a cool cat named Joe Hep who tended bar in Chicago during the 1890s and it was from this aware, all-knowing, disaffiliated man that we get the word hep, of which hip is a variant. Most scholars don’t go along with this theory, dividing their loyalties between the opium smoker’s term for smoking opium, on the hip (opium smokers often re- clined on one side while smoking), or the West African hipi, “to be aware,” or the African Walof hipicat (hence hepcat, too) meaning “one who has his eyes wide open.” All we really know is that hep was recorded first in 1903 and has by now been al- most totally replaced by its variant hip, which gave us the word hippie in the 1960s.
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