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Quotation dates: 1809-1827, 1881
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†HIPSIE-DIPSIE, n. Also hipsy-dipsy, hipsey-dixey; hippie dippie. A castigation, thrashing. Gen. in phr. to gie (somebody) hipsey-dixey, to give (one) a sound thrashing. Found in Nhb. dial.Rnf. a.1810 R. Tannahill Poems (1876) 350:
I'll gar ye yelp, like any whelp, An cry for help, wi skelp on skelp, — I'll gie her hipsey-dixey!Sc. 1827 Blackwood's Mag. (July) 49:
Laying him ower my knee, I gie'd him hipsy-dipsy.Abd. 1881 W. Paul Past & Present 107:
“In coorse he'll need hippie dippie”; and, on the dog's return, he soon shewed what was meant by hippie dippie, by the severe application of a heavy whip.
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