unhipped

English

Etymology

un- +‎ hipped

Adjective

unhipped (comparative more unhipped, superlative most unhipped)

  1. (archaic) Not depressed; in good spirits.
    • 1865, Lascelles Wraxall, Scraps and Sketches Gathered Together (volume 1)
      But, given that you are the most stolid of Britons, and insist, on the Mark Tapley principle, upon being jolly under whatever circumstances may turn up, I defy you to be unhipped after a week's stay at Wiesbaden. That eternal Platte stares you in the face, with its whitewashed tawdry front, whenever you take your walks abroad. Before long it becomes your moral nightmare; it enters into frightful combinations in your dreams; […]
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