pipi

American  

[pee-pee] / ˈpi pi /

noun

• pipi,
  plural
• pipis
  plural

1. an edible bivalve of eastern Australia, Plebidonax deltoides.

2. an edible bivalve of New Zealand, Mesodesma novae-zelandiae.

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pipi British  

/ ˈpɪpiː /

noun

1. any of various shellfishes, esp Plebidonax deltoides of Australia or Mesodesma novae-zelandiae of New Zealand

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• pipi
  plural
• pipis
  plural

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Etymology

Origin of pipi

Borrowed into English from Maori around 1810–20

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Example Sentences

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pipi pipis

“The work was hard, but it was my job” said Pham Tai Doa, 65, who has worked as a dame pipi for 15 of the 25 years since she arrived in France from Vietnam.

From New York Times ● Sep. 28, 2015

It was that sense of connection to place that at least some of the remaining dames pipi said they loved about their job.

From New York Times ● Sep. 28, 2015

Such was their prominence that, as the French essayist Claude Lussac notes, one dame pipi became the subject of a brief character sketch in Marcel Proust’s sprawling novel “Remembrance of Things Past.”

From New York Times ● Sep. 28, 2015

Today, the dames pipi number barely a dozen, mostly older women who are first-generation immigrants from places like Guinea, Togo and Vietnam.

From New York Times ● Sep. 28, 2015

And twenty times: Le plus petit papa, petit pipi, petit popo, petit pupu.

From My Double Life The Memoirs of Sarah Bernhardt by Sarah Bernhardt

"If I have to live on pipis and potatoes," said the bishop, "I would go back."

From A History of the English Church in New Zealand by H. T. (Henry Thomas) Purchas

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