Noun: pip
Sample Sentences
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1912, D. H. Lawrence, letter to Edward Garnett
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I've got the pip horribly at present.
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Fer, as the poit sez, me 'eart 'as got / The pip wiv yearnin' fer - I dunno wot. [1915, C.J. Dennis, The Songs of the Sentimental Bloke, published 1916, page 13:]
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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. [1960, P. G. Wodehouse, Jeeves in the Offing, chapter IV:]
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So sorry that you caught the pip
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On our most recent northward trip
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But you'll be better soon I'm hopin'
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Cause with the mornings I'm not copin'
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Some nerve. Tell those nasty viruses to Bug off! [1980 August 16, “Mousie Mousie Wildflower (personal advertisement)”, in Gay Community News, volume 8, number 5, page 22:]
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“I frankly couldn't give a cat's knuckle about Gizmo. I mean, he's just kind of this fluttering lickspittle that is always bouncing about, always behind Nandor. But Nandor likes him.” “Oh, shut up, Colin Robinson. You're giving me the pip.” [2021 September 2, Paul Simms, “The Prisoner” (1:11 from the start), in What We Do in the Shadows, season 3, episode 1, spoken by Laszlo Cravensworth (Matt Berry):]
Nouns inflected like pip
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle English pippe, from Middle Dutch pip, from post-classical Latin pipita, from Latin pītuīta (“mucus, phlegm, head cold”). Doublet of pituita. See: Middle English Nouns '
pippe', Latin Nouns '
pipita', Latin Nouns '
pītuīta'.
Verbs referencing "pip"
German Nouns
Pips.