unhipped
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adjective
[edit]unhipped (comparative more unhipped, superlative most unhipped)
- (archaic) Not depressed; in good spirits.
- 1865, Lascelles Wraxall, Scraps and Sketches Gathered Together, volume 1:
- But, given that you are the most stolid of Britons, and insist, on the Mark Tapley principle, upon being jolly under whatever circumstances may turn up, I defy you to be unhipped after a week's stay at Wiesbaden. That eternal Platte stares you in the face, with its whitewashed tawdry front, whenever you take your walks abroad. Before long it becomes your moral nightmare; it enters into frightful combinations in your dreams; […]