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KipEnglish (en) · Unnumbered etymologySource text
Clipping of Kipling.
Original Wiktionary entry and references ↗kipEnglish (en) · Etymology 1Source text
1325–75, Middle English kipp, from Middle Dutch kip, from Middle Low German kip (“pack, bundle of hides”).
Original Wiktionary entry and references ↗kipEnglish (en) · Etymology 2Source text
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.
Original Wiktionary entry and references ↗kipEnglish (en) · Etymology 3Source text
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).
Original Wiktionary entry and references ↗kipEnglish (en) · Etymology 4Source text
1910–15, Americanism, abbreviated from kilo + pound.
Original Wiktionary entry and references ↗kipEnglish (en) · Etymology 5Source text
1950–55, from Lao ກີບ (kīp).
Original Wiktionary entry and references ↗kipEnglish (en) · Etymology 6Source text
Unknown. Perhaps related to Yorkshire and Lincolnshire dialect kep, to toss up into the air. Or else, perhaps related to German Kippe (“stub”).
Original Wiktionary entry and references ↗kipEnglish (en) · Etymology 7Source text
From kip (“sleep, lie down”).
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Chambers (1908)
1908- KipEnglish · e-38538-6720
Kip, kip, v.i. (Scot.) to play truant.
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Kip, kip, n. the skin of a young animal.—n. Kip′skin, leather made from the skin of young cattle, intermediate between calf-skin and cow-hide.
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Kip, kip, n. a level or slight incline at the end of an underground way, on which the tubs of coal stand till hoisted up the shaft.
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Kip, kip, n. a house of ill-fame.—Also Kip′shop.
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Was truce historically singular all the way back?
No. Modern singular truce continues Middle English trewes, explicitly analyzed as a plural of trewe “agreement.”
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