PIPPIN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Pippin mean? 

• PIPPIN (noun)
  The noun PIPPIN has 1 sense:

1. any of numerous superior eating apples with yellow or greenish yellow skin flushed with red

  Familiarity information: PIPPIN used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PIPPIN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any of numerous superior eating apples with yellow or greenish yellow skin flushed with red

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Hypernyms ("Pippin" is a kind of...):

dessert apple; eating apple (an apple used primarily for eating raw without cooking)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Pippin"):

Cox's Orange Pippin (a yellow Pippin with distinctive flavor)

 Context examples 

The first who entered was a little Ribston pippin of a man, with ruddy cheeks and fluffy white side-whiskers.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

On the other throne there was perched bolt upright, with prim demeanor, as though he felt himself to be upon his good behavior, a little, round, pippin faced person, who smiled and bobbed to every one whose eye he chanced to meet.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I showed him a corn that I had cut off with my own hand, from a maid of honour’s toe; it was about the bigness of Kentish pippin, and grown so hard, that when I returned England, I got it hollowed into a cup, and set in silver.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)