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Hippy
A hippie, also spelled hippy, especially in British English, is someone associated with the counterculture of the 1960s, originally a youth movement that began in the United States during the mid-1960s and spread to different countries around the world. The word ''hippie'' came from '' hipster'' and was used to describe beatniks who moved into New York City's Greenwich Village, in San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury district, and Chicago's Old Town community. The term ''hippie'' was used in print by San Francisco writer Michael Fallon, helping popularize use of the term in the media, although the tag was seen elsewhere earlier. The origins of the terms '' hip'' and ''hep'' are uncertain. By the 1940s, both had become part of African American jive slang and meant "sophisticated; currently fashionable; fully up-to-date". The Beats adopted the term ''hip'', and early hippies inherited the language and countercultural values of the Beat Generation. Hippies created their own communiti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Etymology Of Hippie
This article discusses the etymology of the word ''hippie''. History According to lexicographer Jesse Sheidlower, the terms ''hipster'' and ''hippie'' derive from the word ''hip'' and the synonym ''hep'', whose origins are disputed.. The words ''hip'' and ''hep'' first surfaced in slang around the beginning of the 20th century and spread quickly, making their first appearance in the ''Oxford English Dictionary'' in 1904. At the time, the words were used to mean "aware" and "in the know". In the late 1960s, African language scholar David Dalby popularized the idea that words used in American slang could be traced back to West Africa. He claimed that ''hipi'' (a word in the Wolof language meaning "to open one's eyes") was the source for both ''hip'' and ''hep''. Sheidlower, however, disputes Dalby's assertion that the term ''hip'' comes from Wolof origins. During the jive era of the late 1930s and early 1940s, African-Americans began to use the term ''hip'' to mean "sophisticate ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
