pipkin

[ pip-kin ]

noun
  1. a small, earthen pot.

  2. British Dialect. a piggin.

Origin of pipkin

1
1555–65; perhaps pipe2 + -kin

Words Nearby pipkin

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How to use pipkin in a sentence

  • Boil the oil and soap together in a pipkin, and then gradually stir in the sand and lemon-juice.

  • Nathaniel pipkin had ocular demonstration of the fact, that the rumours of old Lobbs's treasures were not exaggerated.

    The Pickwick Papers | Charles Dickens
  • Dear old pipkin is better off away from her; but I do miss her and will never forgive that woman.

    Daisy | Miranda Eliot Swan
  • She killed pipkin, my mother's cat, just as soon as she came.

    Daisy | Miranda Eliot Swan
  • He set a great pipkin of water to heat, brought out a clean robe of white wool, a jelab like his own, and made some tea.

    Rest Harrow | Maurice Hewlett

British Dictionary definitions for pipkin

pipkin

/ (ˈpɪpkɪn) /


noun
  1. a small metal or earthenware vessel

  2. another name for piggin

Origin of pipkin

1
C16: perhaps a diminutive of pipe ²; see -kin

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