pipi
Americannoun
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pipi,
plural
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pipis
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an edible bivalve of eastern Australia, Plebidonax deltoides.
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an edible bivalve of New Zealand, Mesodesma novae-zelandiae.
noun
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Etymology
Origin of pipi
Borrowed into English from Maori around 1810–20
Example Sentences
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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
“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
She cared nothing for drink or pipi, the trinkets girls adore.
From White Shadows in the South Seas by Frederick O'Brien
"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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