The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #103270 Message #2101425
Posted By: GUEST,Wordsmith
13-Jul-07 - 06:13 AM
Thread Name: BS: Odd Expressions
Subject: RE: BS: Odd Expressions
To sleep.
[Perhaps from Danish kippe, cheap inn; akin to Old Norse -kippa (as in kornkippa, seed-corn holder) and Low German kiffe, hovel.]