pippin

[pip-in]

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noun

any of numerous roundish or oblate varieties of apple.
Botany. a seed.

Origin of pippin

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

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Examples from the Web for pippin

Contemporary Examples

Pippin Sometimes people joke about musical theater and they make jazz hands.
Neil Patrick Harris and Best Moments of the 2013 Tony Awards (VIDEO)
Kevin Fallon
June 10, 2013
Competition could come from Terence Mann, who charms in Pippin, or Charl Brown from the mostly ignored Motown the Musical.
Who’ll Win a 2013 Tony Award—and Who Deserves To
Janice Kaplan
June 6, 2013
Patina Miller in Pippin is the polar opposite of a princess—hard-edged and icy, wearing black pants and boots, oozing power.
Who’ll Win a 2013 Tony Award—and Who Deserves To
Janice Kaplan
June 6, 2013
Andrea Martin has only one big scene in Pippin, but it stops the show almost every night.
Who’ll Win a 2013 Tony Award—and Who Deserves To
Janice Kaplan
June 6, 2013
But not so much in 1996, when a then-foundering Apple introduced the “multimedia” hardware platform, the Pippin.
Apple's 10 Biggest Flops
The Daily Beast Video
June 12, 2010

Historical Examples

They were going to fight Pippin's multiple shops and beat them.
The Foolish Lovers
St. John G. Ervine
"No more than you are, my pippin," answered the traveller, insolently.
Henry Dunbar
M. E. Braddon
He prepared for this gravely, as for a ceremony; first by buying a Pippin.
The Trimming of Goosie
James Hopper
Having bought the Pippin, Charles-Norton did not light it right away.
The Trimming of Goosie
James Hopper
And the upshot of it all was that the story was more than a peach; it was a pippin.
From Place to Place
Irvin S. Cobb

British Dictionary definitions for pippin

pippin

noun

any of several varieties of eating apple with a rounded oblate shape
the seed of any of these fruits

Word Origin

C13: from Old French pepin, of uncertain origin

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Word Origin and History for pippin

n.

"excellent person or thing," 1897, from coveted varieties of apple that were raised from seed (so called since early 15c.), from Middle English pipin "seed" (see pip (n.1)).

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Examples from the Web for pippin

Contemporary Examples

Pippin Sometimes people joke about musical theater and they make jazz hands.

Competition could come from Terence Mann, who charms in Pippin, or Charl Brown from the mostly ignored Motown the Musical.

Patina Miller in Pippin is the polar opposite of a princess—hard-edged and icy, wearing black pants and boots, oozing power.

Andrea Martin has only one big scene in Pippin, but it stops the show almost every night.

But not so much in 1996, when a then-foundering Apple introduced the “multimedia” hardware platform, the Pippin.

Historical Examples

They were going to fight Pippin's multiple shops and beat them.

"No more than you are, my pippin," answered the traveller, insolently.

He prepared for this gravely, as for a ceremony; first by buying a Pippin.

Having bought the Pippin, Charles-Norton did not light it right away.

And the upshot of it all was that the story was more than a peach; it was a pippin.

pippin

Word Origin

Word Origin and History for pippin

n.

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