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pip⋅pin

  [pip-in]
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–noun
1. any of numerous roundish or oblate varieties of apple.
2. Botany. a seed.
Origin:
1250–1300; ME pipin, var. of pepin < OF
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pip·pin   (pĭp'ĭn)   
n.  

  1. Any of several varieties of apple.

  2. The seed of a fleshy fruit; a pip.

  3. Informal A person or thing that is admired.


[Middle English pipin, from Old French pepin.]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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Word Origin & History

pippin 
"excellent person or thing," 1897, from coveted varieties of apple that were raised from seed (so called since c.1432), from M.E. pipin "seed" (see pip (1)).
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Pippin

king of Italy (781-810) and second son of the Frankish emperor Charlemagne by Hildegard

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