different between hype vs kype

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ha?p/
• Rhymes: -a?p

Etymology 1

Clipping of hyperbole.

Noun

hype (usually uncountable, plural hypes)

1. (marketing) Promotion or propaganda; especially exaggerated claims.

Translations

Further reading

• hype (marketing) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Verb

hype (third-person singular simple present hypes, present participle hyping, simple past and past participle hyped)

1. (transitive) To promote heavily; to advertise or build up.

Derived terms

• hype man
• hype up

Translations

Etymology 2

Adjective

hype (comparative more hype, superlative most hype)

1. (informal) Hyped (“excited”).
2. (slang, dated) Excellent, cool.

Etymology 3

Perhaps from hypodermic needle?

Noun

hype (plural hypes)

1. (slang, dated) A drug addict.

Etymology 4

Noun

hype (plural hypes)

1. Alternative form of hipe (wrestling move)

Verb

hype (third-person singular simple present hypes, present participle hyping, simple past and past participle hyped)

1. Alternative form of hipe (wrestling move)

Finnish

Etymology

From English hype.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?hype/, [?hype?]
• IPA^(key): /?h?i?p/, [?h?i?p] (vowel harmony 'a')
• IPA^(key): /?h?i?p?i/, [?h?i?p?i] (vowel harmony 'a')
• Rhymes: -ype
• Syllabification: hy?pe

Noun

hype

1. (colloquial or jargon) hype

Declension

Derived terms

• hypettää

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *hupi.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?xy.pe/, [?hy.pe]

Noun

hype m

1. hip

Declension

Derived terms

• hypeb?n
• hypeseax
• hypewær?

English

Alternative forms

• kipe

Etymology

From Scots kip, kipp (“something beaked or hooked”); perhaps related to Middle Low German kippe (“point, tip”), German Kippe (“stub”), both from Latin cippus (“stake, post, boundary marker”).

Noun

kype (plural kypes)

1. The hook that develops in the lower jaw of an adult male salmon when it is ready to spawn.

See also

• Oncorhynchus, a genus named for its having kypes

References

• “kype” in the Collins English Dictionary
• “kype”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.

Anagrams

• Pyke, pyke