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Synonyms for pip

Grammar : Noun
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Phonetic Transcription : pɪp

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Définition of pip

Origin :
  • "seed of an apple," 1797, shortened form of pipin "seed of a fleshy fruit" (early 14c.), from Old French pepin (13c.), probably from a root *pipp-, expressing smallness (cf. Italian pippolo, Spanish pepita "seed, kernel").
  • As in hash mark : noun military decoration
  • As in humdinger : noun something extraordinary
Example sentences :
  • "I give not the pip of an apple for king or for noble," cried the serf passionately.
  • Extract from : « The White Company » by Arthur Conan Doyle
  • Why, in that respect they're all Miss Biffins to the audience, Pip.
  • Extract from : « Life And Adventures Of Martin Chuzzlewit » by Charles Dickens
  • At eighty-five seconds, he corrected slightly to center the pip.
  • Extract from : « Slingshot » by Irving W. Lande
  • The study of Pip is meant to indicate that with all his virtues Pip was a snob.
  • Extract from : « Appreciations and Criticisms of the Works of Charles Dickens » by G. K. Chesterton
  • George Eliot or Thackeray could have described the weakness of Pip.
  • Extract from : « Appreciations and Criticisms of the Works of Charles Dickens » by G. K. Chesterton
  • And from her silence Pip drew the most desperate and harrowing conclusions.
  • Extract from : « The Magic City » by Edith Nesbit
  • This is home to them, and just to look at Tellus would give them the pip.
  • Extract from : « Spacehounds of IPC » by Edward Elmer Smith
  • The battle for the Cup had begun—little Pip leading the dance.
  • Extract from : « Bob, Son of Battle » by Alfred Ollivant
  • And she put the pip in a flower-pot, and both were very busy and eager about it.
  • Extract from : « What the Moon Saw: and Other Tales » by Hans Christian Andersen
  • But we are all in the hands of the Gods; and Pip jumped again.
  • Extract from : « Moby Dick; or The Whale » by Herman Melville

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