Hinterland, subs. (old).—The breech.
Hip, (in. pl.), subs. (colloquial).—Conventional—as in the proverb, ‘Free of her lips; free of her hips’—for the buttocks. Hence, to walk with the hips = to make play with the posteriors in walking; long in the hips; and hips to sell = broad in the beam; nimble-hipped = active in copulation.
c. 1508. Dunbar. Poems, ‘Of a Dance in the Quenis Chalmer’ (1836), i., 119. His hippis gaff mony a hiddouss cry. Ibid. i., 124. ‘Of Ane Blak-moir.’… Sall cum behind and kiss hir hippis.
1540. Lindsay, Thrie Estaits, line 3227. My craig will wit quhat weyis my hippis. Ibid., line 4424. Ye wald not stick to preise my graith With hobbling of your hippis.
c. 1580. Collier of Croydon, iv., I. (Dodsley, Old Plays, 4th ed., 1875, 459). I keep her lips and her hips for my own use.
d. 1607. Montgomerie, Poems, ‘Polwart and Montgomerie’s Flyting,’ p. 85, line 779 (Scottish Text Soc., 1885–6). Kailly lippes, kiss my hips.
To have (get, or catch) on the hip, verb. phr. (old).—To have (or get) an advantage. [From wrestling.]
1591. Harington, Orlando Furioso, bk. xlvi., st. 117. In fine he doth apply one speciall drift, Which was to get the pagan on the hip, And having caught him right, he doth him lift By nimble sleight, and in such wise doth trip That down he threw him.
1598. Shakspeare, Merchant of Venice, i. 3. If I can catch him once upon the hip. I will feed fat the ancient grudge I bear him.
1605. Marston, Dutch Courtezan. iii., 1. He said he had you a the hyp.