wippen

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wippen (plural wippens)

1. (music) A component of the action of a mechanical keyboard instrument such as a piano or organ

• (piano action component): whip, whippen

• “wippen”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

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• Rhymes: -ɪpən

Derived from Middle Dutch wyppen (first attested in 1477), from Middle High German wipfen (“to jump”), from Proto-Germanic *wipjan- (“to move up and down”), probably related to *waibijaną (“to move around”).

wippen

1. to play with a seesaw
2. to overthrow, flip over
3. to dandle, teeter

   dat tafeltje wipt: that table teeters

4. to hop
5. (informal) to have sexual intercourse

• tegelwippen

• Afrikaans: wip
• Berbice Creole Dutch: wepn

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

wippen

1. plural of wip

From Low German and Middle Low German wippen, ultimately from or related to Proto-West Germanic *waibijan (“to move back and forth”).

• IPA^(key): [ˈvɪpn̩]
• Hyphenation: wip‧pen

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wippen (weak, third-person singular present wippt, past tense wippte, past participle gewippt, auxiliary haben)

1. to seesaw
   • 2024, Artur-Axel Wandtke, Die Unvollendete. Roman, Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, →ISBN, page 109:

     Der Staatsanwalt berichtete, dass zwanzig Personen getötet und vierhundert verletzt wurden. In seinem Eifer glühten seine kalten blauen Augen. Immer wenn er sich an die Angeklagten richtete, wippte sein dicker Bauch, der ihn auf den Boden zu ziehen drohte.

     The public prosecutor reported twenty people having been killed and four hundred wounded. In his zeal his cold blue eyes were ardent. Every time he veered towards the accusees. his thick belly tottered, forecasting him to fall onto the ground.

• Wippen

• “wippen” in Duden online
• “wippen” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• “wippen” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon