Kip
Two senses, both alive. As a noun: a scruffy, run-down, or dirty place ('the flat's a kip'). Also a sleep, or a place to sleep ('I'm going for a kip'). As a verb: to sleep, especially temporarily or in someone else's house.
Etymology
Recorded in English from the 1760s. Likely from Danish 'kippe' meaning a dive, hovel, or cheap inn, with parallels in Middle Low German 'kiffe' (hovel). The two modern senses descend from the same root: the dirty-place sense came first; the bed and sleep senses arrived through 'kip-shop' (a lodging house), then 'kip' (the bed inside it), then by extension 'kip' (the act of sleeping in one).
In a sentence
How was I to know this was your gaff? I was lookin' for somewhere to kip. - Richard Carpenter, Catweazle and the Magic Zodiac, 1971
You can kip under that... Don' mind it if wriggles a bit. - J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, 1997
Historical notes
Kip is not specifically Hiberno-English in origin - it is current across British and Irish informal speech and travels well between the two registers. Its place in Quare Stuff is earned by how thoroughly it has settled into Irish speech, where the dual sense gets used for everyday wordplay: 'this kip wouldn't let you get a kip in if you tried.'
Sources
- Oxford English Dictionary, entry kip n., kip v. · dictionary