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HICCUP
Definition of HICCUP
noun
A spasm of the diaphragm, or the resulting sound.
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Where it comes from
From earlier hickop, alteration of earlier hicket, hyckock, from hic (onomatopoeic) + -ock (diminutive suffix). Akin to Scots hick, hix (“hiccup”), West Frisian hik (“hiccup”), Dutch hik (“hiccup”), Middle Low German hükup, huckup, hueckup (modern Low German hick (“hiccup”)), German hicksen (“to hiccup”, verb), Alemannic German Hidsgi (“hiccup”), Danish hikke (“hiccup”), Swedish hicka (“hiccup”), hicka (“to hiccup”, verb), Icelandic hiksti (“hiccup”). Displaced yex, from Middle English yexen, ȝisken, ȝixen, ȝoxen (“to hiccup”), from Old English ġiscian, ġeocsian (“to hiccup”). The double c in the spelling (as opposed to ck) is a remnant of the unetymological hiccough spelling.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
HICCUP in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far. 205 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 111, 8 September 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First ever to find it
on Day 111, 8 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
HICCUP starts with H and ends with P. Sorted, its letters read CCHIPU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. C appears more than once, including a double letter.
Words that start HICCUP
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found HICCUP?
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