or hopper-hipped, adj. (old).—Large in the breech. Also (as in quot. 1529) snaggy-boned. Also as subs.
d. 1520. DUNBAR, Poems, ‘Complaint to the King’ (1836, i., 144). With HOPPER-HIPPIS and hanches narrow.
1672. WYCHERLEY, Love in a Wood, ii., 1. Moreover, she is bow-legged, HOPPER-HIPPED, and, betwixt pomatum and Spanish red, has a complexion like a Holland cheese.
c. 1696. B. E., A New Dictionary of the Canting Crew, s.v. HOPPER-ARST, when the Breech sticks out.
1704. KING, Orpheus and Eurydice (CHALMERS, English Poets), vol. ix., p. 284.
| A lady of prodigious fame, | |
| Whose hollow eyes and HOPPER BREECH | |
| Made common people call her witch. |
1719. D’URFEY, Wit and Mirth; or Pills to Purge Melancholy, vi., 351. And there’ll be HOPPER-ARSED Nancy.
1785. GROSE, A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, s.v.
