English synonyms. Breeding-cage; bugwalk; bunk; cage; clothmarket; dab;
doss; dossing crib; downy; Feathers Inn; flea-pasture; latty; letty;
libb; lypken; perch; ruggins; shake-down; snooze.
French synonyms. L’autel de plume (popular: = Feather’s Inn); la bâche
(thieves’ = awning); le flac (thieves’); le flacul (thieves’); le
fournil (popular = bakehouse); la halle aux draps (common =
clothmarket); le pagne (thieves’ from panier = basket); le panier aux
ordures (popular).
1879. J. W. Horsley, in Macm. Mag. xi. 501. So I went home, turned
into kip (bed).
1891. Answers, 31 Jan. ‘Oh yes,’ said the doctor, ‘this is a very
decent kip; I have tried a good many, but this is the best of the
lot.’
1892. Morning Post, 25 Oct., p. 2, col. 4. White said, ‘I went in
there to have a kep’ (slang term for cheap lodging).
3. (American).—A fool; a silly fellow: he’s a kip = he’s
dull-witted—Matsell (1859).
Verb. (old).—1. To play truant; to do dolly: Cf. Charley Wag.
1821. Haggart, Life, p. 3. I was sometimes turned down for kipping.