pippin

[ pip-in ]

/ ˈpɪp ɪn /

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noun

any of numerous roundish or oblate varieties of apple.

Botany. a seed.

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Origin of pippin

1250–1300; Middle English pipin, variant of pepin<Old French

Words nearby pippin

pipiwharauroa, pipkin, Pippa, pipper, pipperoo, pippin, Pipracil, pipsissewa, pipsqueak, pipy, Piqua

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How to use pippin in a sentence

Pippin Sometimes people joke about musical theater and they make jazz hands.
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Competition could come from Terence Mann, who charms in Pippin, or Charl Brown from the mostly ignored Motown the Musical.
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Patina Miller in Pippin is the polar opposite of a princess—hard-edged and icy, wearing black pants and boots, oozing power.
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Andrea Martin has only one big scene in Pippin, but it stops the show almost every night.
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Among the musical honorees lie Matilda, The Musical, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, Pippin, and Kinky Boots.
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And the upshot of it all was that the story was more than a peach; it was a pippin.
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"Miss Isobel's a pippin," said Quin, in a tone that implied a compliment.
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Chauncey was over fifty then, and wizened up like a late pippin that has been out overnight in an early frost.
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There the fugitive pippin, swimming in water not of the purest, and bobbing from the expanded lips of the juvenile Tantalus.
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The chaplain sighed; he was glad, heartily glad, that Pippin was "out," but he would miss him sadly; everybody would miss him.
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British Dictionary definitions for pippin

pippin

/ (ˈpɪpɪn) /

noun

any of several varieties of eating apple with a rounded oblate shape

the seed of any of these fruits

Word Origin for pippin

C13: from Old French pepin, of uncertain origin

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