Careful Words

hip (n.)

hip (v.)

hip (adv.)

hip (adj.)

  He smote them hip and thigh.

Old Testament: Judges xv. 8.

Have yee him on the hip.

John Heywood (Circa 1565): Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. v.

A second Daniel, a Daniel, Jew!

Now, infidel, I have you on the hip.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): The Merchant of Venice. Act iv. Sc. 1.