noun
pippin
noun
1
A type of crisp eating apple with yellow or green skin often marked with red, grown from seed rather than grafted.
"She packed a couple of pippins for the school trip."
2
Informal: an excellent or delightful person or thing.
"That little sports car is an absolute pippin."
How to Use Pippin
Learner’s notesIn plain EnglishMainly an old-fashioned name for a type of apple; also used loosely to praise something as excellent.
Common pairings
a pippin apple
what a pippin
Word Forms
pippins plural, pippins plural, Pippins plural
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Etymology
From Middle English pipin, borrowed from Old French pepin ("a seed") — the same root as "pip".