Etymology

From Middle French houssepillier ‎(“to mistreat by shaking or growling”) and Norman gouspiller ‎(“to shake, thrash, ill-treat”), both from a radical *housp-, *gousp- ‎(“to scorn, scold, reproach”), from or akin to Old English hospan, gehyspan ‎(“to deride, scorn, mock, reproach”) (—Diez), or from Proto-Germanic *husp-, *hūsk-, from Proto-Indo-European *kūd- ‎(“to mock”). Related to Old English hūsc ‎(“mockery, scorn, insult, derision”), Old High German hosc ‎(“invective, censure, mockery, travesty”), Norwegian dialectal huta ‎(“to shout at, treat contemptuously”). More at forhush.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /us.pi.je/