hippin

• hipping

Compare Scots hippin, hippen; from hip +‎ -ing.

hippin (plural hippins)

1. (Northumbria) Theatre curtain.

• “hipping, n.³”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
• Frank Graham, editor (1987), “HIPPIN”, in The New Geordie Dictionary, Rothbury, Northumberland: Butler Publishing, →ISBN.
• Northumberland Words, English Dialect Society, R. Oliver Heslop, 1893–4
• Amy D. Clark, Nancy M. Hayward (2014), Talking Appalachian: Voice, Identity and Community

• hippen, hipping

From hip (“hip”) +‎ -in.

hippin (plural hippins)

1. a child's nappy; a diaper
2. (humorous) the curtain of a penny theatre

• “hippin, n.”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC, reproduced from W[illiam] Grant and D[avid] D. Murison, editors, The Scottish National Dictionary, Edinburgh: Scottish National Dictionary Association, 1931–1976, →OCLC.