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pip·pin

 (pĭp′ĭn)
n.
1. Any of several varieties of apple.
2. The seed of a fleshy fruit; a pip.
3. Informal A person or thing that is admired.

[Middle English pipin, from Old French pepin.]
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pippin

(ˈpɪpɪn)
n
1. (Plants) any of several varieties of eating apple with a rounded oblate shape
2. (Plants) the seed of any of these fruits
[C13: from Old French pepin, of uncertain origin]
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pip•pin

(ˈpɪp ɪn)

n.
any of numerous roundish or oblate varieties of apple.
[1250–1300; Middle English pipin, variant of pepin < Old French]
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Noun1.pippin - any of numerous superior eating apples with yellow or greenish yellow skin flushed with redPippin - any of numerous superior eating apples with yellow or greenish yellow skin flushed with red
dessert apple, eating apple - an apple used primarily for eating raw without cooking
Cox's Orange Pippin - a yellow Pippin with distinctive flavor
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Translations

pippin

[ˈpɪpɪn] Ncamuesa f, manzana f reineta
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pippin

nCox m
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pippin

[ˈpɪpɪn] nrenetta
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References in classic literature ?
It was so in the Pequod with the little negro Pippin by nick-name, Pip by abbreviation.
Betty Pippin, with young Roger her lover, fell both to the ground; where, oh perverse fate!
I showed him a corn that I had cut off with my own hand, from a maid of honour's toe; it was about the bigness of Kentish pippin, and grown so hard, that when I returned England, I got it hollowed into a cup, and set in silver.
Miss Pippin adoring young Pumpkin, and dreaming along endless vistas of unwearying companionship, was a little drama which never tired our fathers and mothers, and had been put into all costumes.
It would have been all one to him, in reality, if there had not been a pippin on the surface of the earth, but his show of interest in this apple question was positively painful.
"The first who entered was a little Ribston pippin of a man, with ruddy cheeks and fluffy white side-whiskers.
Every year he goes to England, and he takes a hundred carloads of yellow Newton pippins with him.
In his chapter on The Lady from Shanghai, Pippin explains how the voiceover of Michael O'Hara (Orson Welles) may be an unwitting attempt to shield himself from his own past mistakes, such as acting thoughtlessly against his self-interest by pursuing the dangerous Elsa Bannister (Rita Hayworth).
There are also typical thematic elements such as greed, lust, crime, corruption, pessimism about the "American Dream," the tediousness and banality of middle-class life, and most important to Pippin's study, fatalism.
In addition to Pippin, they chose 17 additional projects, some created by legendary designers such as Louis I.
The Pippin Prep is designed to automate preparative gel electrophoresis for the creation of DNA sequencing libraries.
"There was like no words; I just cried," said a tearful Jacie Pippin, Roddy Pippin's wife.