ziphhttp://www.oed.com/dictionary/ziph_n%3Ftab%3Dmeaning_and_useZiph, n.
Revised 2021

Ziphnoun

Now rare.
  1. 1834–
    A cryptic way of speaking formerly used among some pupils at Winchester college, characterized by substituting or adding consonants to English words.
    1. 1834
      Lord W. and I communicated our thoughts occasionally by means of a language..called by the name of Ziph. The language and the name were both derived..from Winchester.
      T. De Quincey, Sketches Life & Manners in Tait's Edinburgh Magazine March 92/1
    2. 1922
      Ziph’ or ‘Hypernese’ (at Winchester) substitutes wa for the first of two initial consonants and inserts p or g, making ‘breeches’ into wareechepes.
      O. Jespersen, Language viii. 150
    3. 1942
      Gibberish is applied mostly to Ziph (shagall wege gogo = shall we go).
      E. Partridge, Usage & Abusage 160/2

Ziph, n. was revised in March 2021.

Ziph, n. was last modified in December 2023.