pippin

[pip-in]

noun

any of numerous roundish or oblate varieties of apple.

Botany. a seed.

Nearby words

Origin of pippin

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

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Examples from the Web for pippin

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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Andrea Martin has only one big scene in Pippin, but it stops the show almost every night.
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But not so much in 1996, when a then-foundering Apple introduced the “multimedia” hardware platform, the Pippin.
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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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Pippin neither saw nor heard them; his voice poured out in waves of song, longing, rejoicing, triumphant.
Pippin; A Wandering Flame|Laura E. Richards
Absurd that they should all sit and watch Pippin eating his dinner, but they did.
Pippin; A Wandering Flame|Laura E. Richards
With a little bow and another regretful look around him, Pippin turned toward the door.
Pippin; A Wandering Flame|Laura E. Richards
Pippin held the lemonade to the boy's lips, and patted the pillows tenderly, as a woman might.
Pippin; A Wandering Flame|Laura E. Richards
As Pippin was tying up the bread, the girl began to ask questions.
Pippin; A Wandering Flame|Laura E. Richards

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 for pippin

C13: from Old French pepin, of uncertain origin

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Word Origin and History for pippin

pippin

"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)).