MDDM23: The Green Pip

[Dave Monroe]

   "Fascinated herself, she has miss'd completely his
effect upon Mitzi, who is sitting there flush'd and
daz'd, with as clear an incipient case of the Green
Pip as Mrs. Edgewise has met with since her own
Girlhood." (M&D, Ch. 36, p. 369)

Main Entry: pip 
Pronunciation: 'pip
Function: noun
Etymology: Middle English pippe, from Middle Dutch
(akin to Old High German pfiffIz), from (assumed)
Vulgar Latin pipita, alteration of Latin pituita
phlegm, pip; perhaps akin to Greek pitys pine -- more
at PINE
Date: 15th century
1 a : a disorder of a bird marked by formation of a
scale or crust on the tongue b : the scale or crust of
this disorder
2 a : any of various human ailments; especially : a
slight nonspecific disorder b chiefly British : a
feeling of irritation or annoyance

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Green = jealousy?  Let me know ...

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