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wipe (n.)
"disposable absorbent tissue," 1971, from
wipe
(v.).
wipe (v.)
Old English
wipan,
from Proto-Germanic
*wipanan
(cf. Danish
vippe
, Middle Dutch, Dutch
vippen
, Old High German
wifan
"to swing"), from PIE
*weip-
"to turn, vacillate, tremble" (cf. Latin
vibrare
"to shake;" see
vibrate
).
