different between beatnik vs hipster

English

Etymology

Coined by American columnist Herb Caen in 1958. From beat (generation) + cutesy or ironic use of the Russian suffix -??? (-nik). This suffix experienced a surge in English coinages for nicknames and diminutives after the 1957 Soviet launch of the Sputnik satellite. Compare jazznik.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?bi?tn?k/

Noun

beatnik (plural beatniks)

1. A person who dresses in a manner that is not socially acceptable and therewith is supposed to reject conventional norms of thought and behavior; nonconformist in dress and behavior
2. A person associated with the Beat Generation of the 1950s and 1960s or its style.

Translations

See also

• Baghdad by the Bay (also coined by Herb Caen)
• hepcat
• hippie, hippy
• jazznik
• peacenik

References

Finnish

Etymology

From English beatnik.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?bi?tnik/, [?bi?t?nik]
• IPA^(key): /?bi?tnik?i/, [?bi?t?nik?i]

Noun

beatnik

1. beatnik

Usage notes

Partitive plural is commonly spelled with double-k as beatnikkejä, which may be considered erroneous.

Declension

French

Etymology

From English beatnik.

Noun

beatnik m or f (plural beatniks)

1. beatnik

Portuguese

Etymology

From English beatnik.

Noun

beatnik m, f (plural beatniks)

1. beatnik (person associated with the Beat Generation of the 1950s and 1960s)

English

Alternative forms

• (A person interested in the latest trends): hepster (dated)

Etymology

hip +? -ster. First attested for someone carrying something on their hip in the U.S. in the 1920s. Attested as a variant of hepster in the 1940s, for a follower of the latest fashions/trends/styles.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?h?p.st?/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?h?p.st?/

Noun

hipster (plural hipsters)

1. A person who is keenly interested in the latest trends or fashions. [from earlier 20th c.]
   • c. 1954, Jack Kerouac, Untitled poem, in Book of Sketches, 1952-57, Penguin, 2006, p. 239,

     I, poor French Canadian Ti Jean become / a big sophisticated hipster esthete in / the homosexual arts […]

2. A member of Bohemian counterculture.
3. An aficionado of jazz who considers himself or herself to be hip.
4. (US, obsolete, Prohibition) A person who wears a hip flask (of alcohol).
5. (US, obsolete, 1930s) A dancer, particularly a female one.
6. Underwear with an elastic waistband at hip level.

Synonyms

(Prohibition):

• vial villain
• gentleman from Kentucky (from Kentucky backcountry moonshine)

Derived terms

Coordinate terms

(Prohibition):

• suffer from hip disease (v.)
• bootlegging (n.)
• bootleg (v.) (from hiding flasks in the boot, or stocking)

Translations

Verb

hipster (third-person singular simple present hipsters, present participle hipstering, simple past and past participle hipstered)

1. To behave like a hipster.
2. To dress or decorate in a hip fashion.

References

Anagrams

• Pithers, perisht, prehist.

French

Etymology

From English hipster.

Noun

hipster m or f (plural hipsters)

1. hipster

Polish

Etymology

From English hipster.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?x?ip.st?r/

Noun

hipster m pers (feminine hipsterka)

1. hipster (person interested in the latest trends)
2. hipster (aficionado of jazz who considers himself or herself to be hip)

Declension

Derived terms

• (adjective) hipsterski

Further reading

• hipster in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• hipster in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Etymology

From English hipster.

Noun

hipster m, f (plural hipsters)

1. hipster (person interested in the latest trends)

Spanish

Etymology

From English hipster.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?xibste?/, [?xi??s.t?e?]

Noun

hipster m (plural hipsters or hipster)

1. hipster

   Synonyms: gafapasta, modernillo

Derived terms

• hipsterismo