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pippin

[ pip-in ]

noun

  1. any of numerous roundish or oblate varieties of apple.
  2. Botany. a seed.


pippin

/ ˈpɪpɪn /

noun

  1. any of several varieties of eating apple with a rounded oblate shape
  2. the seed of any of these fruits


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Word History and Origins

Origin of pippin1

1250–1300; Middle English pipin, variant of pepin < Old French

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Word History and Origins

Origin of pippin1

C13: from Old French pepin, of uncertain origin

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Example Sentences

Pippin Sometimes people joke about musical theater and they make jazz hands.

Competition could come from Terence Mann, who charms in Pippin, or Charl Brown from the mostly ignored Motown the Musical.

Patina Miller in Pippin is the polar opposite of a princess—hard-edged and icy, wearing black pants and boots, oozing power.

Andrea Martin has only one big scene in Pippin, but it stops the show almost every night.

Among the musical honorees lie Matilda, The Musical, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, Pippin, and Kinky Boots.

And the upshot of it all was that the story was more than a peach; it was a pippin.

"Miss Isobel's a pippin," said Quin, in a tone that implied a compliment.

Chauncey was over fifty then, and wizened up like a late pippin that has been out overnight in an early frost.

There the fugitive pippin, swimming in water not of the purest, and bobbing from the expanded lips of the juvenile Tantalus.

The chaplain sighed; he was glad, heartily glad, that Pippin was "out," but he would miss him sadly; everybody would miss him.

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