hippie vs hippy :

hippie or hippy

A long-haired 60s flower child was a “hippie.” “Hippy” is an adjective describing someone with wide hips. The IE is not caused by a Y changing to IE in the plural as in “puppy” and “puppies.” It is rather a dismissive diminutive, invented by older, more sophisticated hipsters looking down on the new kids as mere “hippies.” Confusing these two is definitely unhip.

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Definitions
  hippie
  • n  someone who rejects the established culture; advocates extreme liberalism in politics and lifestyle
  hippy
  • n  someone who rejects the established culture; advocates extreme liberalism in politics and lifestyle
News & Articles
  hippie
  • Self-Published Memoir, Hippie Boy, Lands on New York Times Bestseller List
    SEATTLE, June 13, 2013 /PRNewswire/ --  Hippie Boy: A Girl's Story , a self-published memoir about a feisty teenage girl who escapes her abusive Mormon stepfather and the suffocating religion and poverty ...
    June 13, 2013 - PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance
  • How Pixar Developed ‘Art’ for ‘Monsters University’
    “Monsters University,” the prequel to “Monsters, Inc.,” has several new characters, including Art, a purple longhaired hippie-esque monster majoring in new-age philosophy.
    June 13, 2013 - New York Times
  • This week in disappointment: greenways, guns and landfills
    First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win.—Mahatma Gandhi "Several hundred people—mostly white, angry, aged former hippies—appeared and screeched into microphones, talked about solidarity and chanted diatribes. It was 'liberal theater' at its best.
    June 12, 2013 - Independent Weekly
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