hip hip hoorayとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Recorded as far back as 1803. The word hip was in use then as a meaningless syllable to get someone's attention. Hooray (or hurrah) goes back to 1686, and also had no specific meaning, used instead to get a person's attention.

A folk etymology for this interjection suggests it comes from the anti-Semitic 1819 German Hep-Hep riots, however many examples of "Hip Hip" exist in English prior to 1819, for example:

• 1813, Edmond Temple, The Life of Pill Garlick‎, London, page 243:

  The first toast “Success to Pill Garlick lick and his saucy crew,” was drank with nine times nine, hip! hip! hip! and a hoorra! The tumult was excessive.

間投詞

hip hip hooray

1. An exclamation of congratulations or celebration, especially in response to a call for "three cheers for" the person. Often the person calling for the cheers will yell "Hip! Hip!", the crowd replying "Hooray!"

参考

• three cheers

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