Meanings
pippie1
plural pippies
- AustraliaNew ZealandA cockle.
By the way, the common "pippie” contains it in small amounts, so does shark liver oil, if you like it.
1937, New Zealand Dental Journal - Volume 33, page 1673 more examples
Sieni came running from behind a fallen coconut tree beside the lagoon with her skirt gathered up in her hands, and full of pippies and sea eggs.
1959, Marie Maddox, Children of Samoa: A True Story of the Children of Western SamoaOur beaches have always been a tremendous tourist attraction to surfers and fishermen, but with the spoliation of some of them and the destruction of pippie beds there has been a continual outcry against the mining companies—so much so that the companies themselves have attempted to allay the outcry and create a better public image for themselves.
1968, New South Wales. Parliament, Parliamentary Debates, page 311Down on the beach, we'd all gather and load pippie and oyster shells, to be burnt then added as lime to the sandy soil.
2013, Sandy Thorne, Old-Timers: Magnificent Stories from Mighty Australians, page 4
pippie2
plural pippies
- childishcolloquialThe penis.
The old men there get their little shrunken pippies into little girls;
2003, Claude Maredza, Oh, Too Celibate?!!, page 62 more examples
At thirteen, my own pippie was stirred by the sight of girls in our school.
1998, David Medalie, Encounters: an anthology of South African short stories, page 192He would have seen Poddi's pippie place also but the girl had twisted away as she wore her cloth.
2000, Carl Muller, Once Upon A Tender Time
Synonyms & antonyms
Origin
pippie · noun
- Māoripipi“Paphies australis”
- Englishpippie
Likely borrowed from Māori pipi (“Paphies australis”).
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