hypped

hypped

English

Etymology

From hyp +‎ -ed.

Adjective

hypped (comparative more hypped, superlative most hypped)

  1. (colloquial, now rare) Affected with hypochondria; melancholy, in low spirits. [from 18th c.]
    • 1748, [Samuel Richardson], “Letter CXCI”, in Clarissa. Or, The History of a Young Lady: […], volume (please specify |volume=I to VII), London: […] S[amuel] Richardson; [a]nd sold by John Osborn, […], →OCLC:
      I thought thou hadst been more of a man; thou that art not afraid of an acute death, a sword's point, to be so plaguily hypped at the consequences of a chronical one!

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