pepita

¹

[ puh-pee-tuh, pe- ]

noun

1. the edible seed of a pumpkin or squash, used in cooking and often dried or toasted and eaten as a snack food.

Pepita

²

[ puh-pee-tuh, pe-; Spanish pe-pee-tah ]

noun

1. a female given name.

Word History and Origins

Origin of pepita¹

From Spanish (southwestern U.S.), Spanish: “seed, pip,” probably derivative of the same Romance base, pep- (unattested), as Old French pepin pippin

Example Sentences

Pepita and the other two Indian women, with the wounded muleteers, were taken to another house.

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All adored him and one, Pepita, a little Spanish model, loved him with the love of a dog for its master.

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"Pepita Ximenez" has enjoyed a wide celebrity, not only in Spain, but in every other Spanish-speaking country.

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To-morrow I am to dine at the house of the famous Pepita Ximenez, of whom you have doubtless heard.

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Until her sixteenth year Pepita lived with her mother in very straitened circumstances—bordering, indeed, upon absolute want.

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