fipple

[ fip-uhl ]

nounMusic.

a plug stopping the upper end of a pipe, as a recorder or a whistle, and having a narrow slit through which the player blows.

Origin of fipple

1620–30; perhaps special use of dial. fipple loose lower lip, pouting lip; compare Old Norse flipi lower lip of a horse, Norwegian flipe flap, lappet. See flip¹, flap, flabby

Words Nearby fipple

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How to use fipple in a sentence

He swam up past the boulders made of spongy gishy-gosh, And flew right by the herd of floating feeding fipple-fosh.
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The old English fipple flute, or flte bec, is described under the headings Recorder and Flageolet.
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British Dictionary definitions for fipple

fipple

/ (ˈfɪpəl) /

noun

a wooden plug forming a flue in the end of a pipe, as the mouthpiece of a recorder
a similar device in an organ pipe with a flutelike tone

Origin of fipple

C17: of unknown origin

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