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pippin

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pip·pin  (ppn)
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.]
pippin
Noun
a type of eating apple [Old French pepin]
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.pippinPippin - 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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It was so in the Pequod with the little negro Pippin by nick-name, Pip by abbreviation.
Moby Dick LXVIII-CXXXIV by Melville, Herman View in context
Betty Pippin, with young Roger her lover, fell both to the ground; where, oh perverse fate
The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Fielding, Henry View in context
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.
Gulliver's Travels by Swift, Jonathan View in context
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