Meanings
pippin1
pippin2
plural pippins
- An (individual) apple tree raised from a pip (seed) (as opposed to one grafted); its fruit; a variety that came from such an individual (as its progenitor).
Upon which account ’tis that the Juice of ripe pulpy Apples, as Pippins, Rennetings, &c. that are of a ſyrupy tenacious nature, do detain in them more of the diſperſed particles of the Fruit that by the Preſſure comes out with the Liquor; […]
1707, J[ohn] Mortimer, “Some Observations Relating to Cyder”, in The Whole Art of Husbandry; or, The Way of Managing and Improving of Land. […], London: […] J[ohn] H[umphreys] for H[enry] Mortlock […], and J[onathan] Robinson […], →OCLC, page 594- Any of several such varieties that are good eating apples and tend to have a yellow or green skin with patches of red.
Cox's Orange Pippin
- datedslangAn excellent or admirable person or thing.
Pippin3
Origin
pippin · noun
- Old Frenchpepin“a seed”
- Middle Englishpipin
- Englishpippin
From Middle English pipin, from Old French pepin (“a seed”) (French pépin). See pip.
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Full word history & related roots →pippin · noun
- Middle Englishpipin“a seed”
- Englishpippin
Probably from Middle English pipin (“a seed”), as being raised from the seed.
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Full word history & related roots →Cite this entry
pippin. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/pippin
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