pip
English
editPronunciation
editEtymology 1
editFrom Middle English pippe, from Middle Dutch pip, from post-classical Latin pipita, from Latin pītuīta (“mucus, phlegm, head cold”). Doublet of pituita.
Noun
editpip (plural pips)
- Any of various respiratory diseases in birds, especially infectious coryza. [from the 15th c.]
- (humorous, dated) Of humans, a disease, malaise or depression.
- 1912, D. H. Lawrence, letter to Edward Garnett
- I've got the pip horribly at present.
- 1915, C.J. Dennis, The Songs of the Sentimental Bloke, published 1916, page 13:
- Fer, as the poit sez, me 'eart 'as got / The pip wiv yearnin' fer - I dunno wot.
- 1960, P. G. Wodehouse, Jeeves in the Offing, chapter IV:
- With this deal Uncle Tom's got on with Homer Cream, it would be fatal to risk giving [Mrs Cream] the pip in any way.
- 1980 August 16, “Mousie Mousie Wildflower (personal advertisement)”, in Gay Community News, volume 8, number 5, page 22:
- So sorry that you caught the pip
On our most recent northward trip
But you'll be better soon I'm hopin'
Cause with the mornings I'm not copin'
Some nerve. Tell those nasty viruses to Bug off!
- 1912, D. H. Lawrence, letter to Edward Garnett
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editTranslations
editEtymology 2
editApparently representing a shortened form of pippin, from Middle English pipin, from Old French pepin (“a seed”) (French pépin).
Noun
editpip (plural pips)
- (obsolete) A pippin, seed of any kind.
- (UK) A seed inside certain fleshy fruits (compare stone/pit), such as a peach, orange, or apple.
- 1995, John Pairman Brown, Israel and Hellas (Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft; 231), volume 1, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 134:
- On most of the shores of the ancient Mediterranean, before any historical record, the cultivated grape vine, Vitis vinifera Linn., was grown. Its relationship to the wild vine of Eurasia, Vitis silvestris Gmel., is uncertain. Its pips can mostly be distinguished from those of the wild vine, and have been found in Egypt and Syrian Hama from the fourth millennium BC, at Lachish and Jericho in the early Bronze, at Troy II during the Bronze, in the Peloponnesus from Early Helladic, in Crete from the Early Minoan.
- Apple pips are edible, but don't have a pleasant taste.
- (UK) A seed inside certain fleshy fruits (compare stone/pit), such as a peach, orange, or apple.
- (US, colloquial) Something or someone excellent, of high quality.
- 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage, published 2007, page 612:
- She sure is a pip, that one. You need company?
- (British, dated, World War I, signalese) P in RAF phonetic alphabet.
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Verb
editpip (third-person singular simple present pips, present participle pipping, simple past and past participle pipped)
- (transitive) To remove the pips from.
- Peel and pip the grapes.
Etymology 3
editOrigin uncertain; perhaps related to Etymology 2, above.
Noun
editpip (plural pips)
- One of the spots or symbols on a playing card, domino, die, etc.
- (military, public service) One of the stylised version of the Bath star worn on the shoulder of a uniform to denote rank, e.g. of a soldier or a fireman.
- A spot; a speck.
- A spot of light or an inverted V indicative of a return of radar waves reflected from an object; a blip.
- A piece of rhizome with a dormant shoot of the lily of the valley plant, used for propagation
Synonyms
edit- (symbol on playing card etc): spot
Translations
editVerb
editpip (third-person singular simple present pips, present participle pipping, simple past and past participle pipped)
- (transitive) To get the better of; to defeat by a narrow margin.
- Synonym: pip to the post
- He led throughout the race but was pipped at the post.
- 2022 October 1, Phil McNulty, “Arsenal 3-1 Tottenham: Gunners show identity & direction in outstanding derby win”, in BBC Sport[1]:
- 2023 August 24, Rob Crilly, “Vivek Ramaswamy beats Ron DeSantis for best performance AND tops Donald Trump as the 'real winner' in poll of the Republican debate”, in Daily Mail[2]:
- Some 28 percent said he was the best performer, pipping DeSantis by one point
- (transitive) To hit with a gunshot.
- The hunter managed to pip three ducks from his blind.
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editEtymology 4
editVerb
editpip (third-person singular simple present pips, present participle pipping, simple past and past participle pipped)
- (intransitive) To peep, to chirp.
- (ornithology) To make the initial hole during the process of hatching from an egg.
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editEtymology 5
editNoun
editpip (plural pips)
The sound of the BBC pips
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- One of a series of very short, electronically produced tones, used, for example, to count down the final few seconds before a given time or to indicate that a caller using a payphone needs to make further payment to continue the call.
- 1982, John Banville, The Newton Letter:
- I could clearly hear the frequent cataclysms of the upstairs lavatory, and my day began with the pips for the morning news in Charlotte Lawless's kitchen.
Synonyms
edit- (electronic sound, counting down seconds): stroke
Derived terms
editTranslations
editEtymology 6
editAbbreviation of percentage in point.
Noun
editpip (plural pips)
- (finance, currency trading) The smallest price increment between two currencies in foreign exchange (forex) trading.
- 2015, Abe Cofnas, “Trading Styles and Strategies”, in The Forex Trading Course: A Self-study Guide to Becoming a Successful Currency Trader, 2nd edition, Hoboken, N.J.: John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, part II (Timing the Trade with Technical Analysis), page 157:
- The set-and-forget trader is playing fundamental direction and is seeking very large moves of 150 to 300 pips. This trader doesn't want to sit and watch the screen but play the longer moves and forces behind forex.
See also
editAnagrams
editAlbanian
editEtymology 1
editA descriptive term, similar to German piepen and Latin pipīre.
Verb
editpip (aorist pipa, participle pipur)
Etymology 2
editFrom Romance *pīpa, also present in Old French pipe, Italian pipa etc.
Noun
editDanish
editEtymology
editFrom Old Norse *pípa, from Proto-Germanic *pīpaną.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editpip n (singular definite pippet, plural indefinite pip)
Inflection
editNoun
editpip n
- (dated) nonsense, gibberish, madness
- 2015, William Heinesen, Tårnet ved verdens ende: En poetisk mosaik-roman om den yngste ungdom, Gyldendal A/S, →ISBN:
- Sådan noget pip!
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- 1975, Manfred Spliedt, Sådan en dum knægt:
- Sikke noget pip.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- 1975, Aksel Sandemose, Minner fra andre dager:
- Jeg var forarget over saadan noget Pip ...
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Dutch
editEtymology
editFrom Middle Dutch pippe, pip, pips (“pip”, also “cold, flu”), ultimately from post-classical Latin pip(p)ita, from Latin pītuīta (“slime, head cold”).
The word was borrowed into West Germanic before the High German consonant shift as *pippit, whence Old High German pfipfiz and (Central German) pipz, *pippiz (modern German Pips, obsolete Pfipfs). In Dutch and Low German we should expect a form such as *pippet, which is not attested, however. One possibility is that these dialects borrowed the Central German form and the final s-sound was later reanalysed as the genitive suffix. Middle Dutch also had pipeye, from Old French pipie.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editpip m (uncountable)
- Pip (any of various respiratory diseases in birds, especially infectious coryza).
- (humorous or colloquial) Of humans, a disease (particularly the common cold or the flu), malaise or depression.
Derived terms
editNorwegian Nynorsk
editEtymology 1
editInterjection
editpip
Noun
editpip n (definite singular pipet, indefinite plural pip, definite plural pipa)
Etymology 2
editSpecialized use of Etymology 1.
Noun
editpip m (definite singular pipen, indefinite plural pipar, definite plural pipane)
- used in the expression ta pipen frå.
Etymology 3
editNoun
editpip m (definite singular pipen, indefinite plural pipar, definite plural pipane)
References
edit- “pip” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Swedish
editEtymology
editFrom Old Norse *pípa, from Proto-Germanic *pīpaną.
Pronunciation
edit- Rhymes: -iːp
Interjection
editpip
- beep
- Pip! Datorn pep.
- Beep! The computer beeped.
- squeak, peep
- "Pip!" sa musen och fågelungen
- The mouse squeaked and the baby bird peeped
Noun
editpip n
- a beep
- Datorn gav ifrån sig ett pip
- The computer emitted a beep
- a squeak, a peep
- Pip hördes från mössen och fågelungarna
- Squeaks were heard from the mice and peeps from the baby birds
- Vi har inte hört ett pip från dom
- We haven't heard a peep from them [idiomatic]
Declension
editDeclension of pip | ||||
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Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | pip | pipet | pip | pipen |
Genitive | pips | pipets | pips | pipens |
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editNoun
editpip c
- a spout, a lip (on a vessel)
- a stem (narrow bottom part of a funnel)
- trattens pip
- the stem of the funnel
Declension
editDeclension of pip | ||||
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Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | pip | pipen | pipar | piparna |
Genitive | pips | pipens | pipars | piparnas |
See also
edit- snip (“lip”)
Verb
editpip
- imperative of pipa
References
editVolapük
editEtymology
editBorrowed from French pipe and English pipe.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editpip (nominative plural pips)
- pipe (for smoking)
Declension
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