MDDM23: The Green Pip

[Samuel Moyer]

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From: "Dave Monroe" <davidmmonroe at yahoo.com>



>    "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

The OED on line adds many other definitions including:

c. Ill humour or poor health, esp. in colloq. phrs. to have (or get) the
pip, to be depressed, despondent, or unwell; to give (someone) the pip, to
annoy or irritate, to make (someone) ill-tempered or dispirited. (though the
first example is 1886)

 2. A spot or speck; spec. a small spot on the skin; a spot on a spotted
dress fabric; pl. specks appearing to dance before the eye. Now dial.

  1676 WORLIDGE Cyder 157 Pippins..taking their name from the small spots or
pips that..appear on the sides of the Apple. 1877 N.W. Linc. Gloss.,
Pips,..the spots on playing cards, dominoes, and women's dresses. 1881
Oxfordsh. Gloss., Pips, small spots on the skin. 1881 Leicestersh. Gloss.,
Pips.

 2. a. The common name for the seeds of fleshy fruits, as the apple, pear,
orange, etc


pip, v. 4
intr. To make a short, high-pitched sound. So pipping ppl. a. (this is 1938)


sam
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