Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of several varieties of apple.
- noun The seed of a fleshy fruit; a pip.
- noun Informal A person or thing that is admired.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The seed of a fruit, as an apple, pear, melon, etc. Now abbreviated pip. Cotgrave.
- noun One of numerous varieties of the apple, as the golden pippin, the lemon pippin, the Newtown pippin, etc.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun An apple from a tree raised from the seed and not grafted; a seedling apple.
- noun A name given to apples of several different kinds, as
Newtown pippin ,summer pippin ,fall pippin ,golden pippin . - noun sun-dried apples for winter use.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Any of several varieties of
eating apple that have a yellow or green skin with patches of red - noun Any of several roundish or
oblate apple varieties - noun A seed
- noun An apple tree raised from a seed (not grafted)
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun any of numerous superior eating apples with yellow or greenish yellow skin flushed with red
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Hollister, but "the Englishman" and his wife -- who was a "pippin" for looks -- were still in the forefront of his mind when the trail led him out on the river bank a few hundred yards from their house.
The Hidden Places Bertrand W. Sinclair 1926
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As far as Roe vs. Wade goes, I'm somewhat ignorant on the inner political workings, but my thought is that McCain is going to find he has what Wodehouse likes to call a "pippin" on his hands if he tries to relegate Palin to high-school graduation speeches once in office.
WordPress.com News 2008
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Your first mistake is shopping at Walmart. pippin Says:
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They took cottage cheese and cold chicken breasts; cereal and microwave brownies and grapes and pippin apples.
THE FORBIDDEN GAME L.J. SMITH 2010
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They took cottage cheese and cold chicken breasts; cereal and microwave brownies and grapes and pippin apples.
THE FORBIDDEN GAME L.J. SMITH 2010
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These are most fair and beautiful to behold, most sweet and luscious to taste, but have little inward virtue or nourishment at all in them, not half that is in a Spanish camuesa, or English Kentish pippin [apple].
Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico 2008
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It's warm but not hot and after waiting a long time after ordering I figure the beef would come out pippin hot.
Archive 2008-03-01 Unitas We Stand 2008
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It's warm but not hot and after waiting a long time after ordering I figure the beef would come out pippin hot.
Double O Unitas We Stand 2008
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She was so fond of Newtown pippin apples from Virginia that she waived their import duties.
The Fruit Hunters Adam Leith Gollner 2008
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Had the question been asked in that enchanted hall in fairyland, where all interrogations must be answered with absolute sincerity, Darsie had certainly replied, that he took her for the most frank-hearted and ultra-liberal lass that had ever lived since Mother Eve eat the pippin without paring.
Redgauntlet 2008
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