pippin
any of numerous roundish or oblate varieties of apple.
Botany. a seed.
Origin of pippin
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How to use pippin in a sentence
Do you know, Edwin, I believe you will realize enough off your wine saps and pippins to pay for all your furniture!
Molly Brown's Orchard Home | Nell SpeedPare and core some of the largest and finest pippins, and cut them into thin round slices.
Domestic French Cookery, 4th ed. | Sulpice BaruIt was filled with fruit-trees, the finest peaches in the world, and the finest apples—the Newton pippins.
The Hunters' Feast | Mayne ReidSometimes she mingles a few Pippins with the John's to make the Gelly.
The Closet of Sir Kenelm Digby Knight Opened | Kenelm DigbyThere were plenty of homely delicacies on the table,—hot cakes and honey, and a basket of brown-and-yellow pippins.
Uncle Max | Rosa Nouchette Carey
British Dictionary definitions for pippin
/ (ˈpɪpɪn) /
any of several varieties of eating apple with a rounded oblate shape
the seed of any of these fruits
Origin of pippin
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