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▪ I. ‖ pipi1|ˈpiːpiː|
[Tupi pipai.]
Name of the astringent pods of a Brazilian leguminous plant, Cæsalpinia Pipai, sometimes imported together with divi-divi for tanning. Also, the plant itself.
1866Treas. Bot. 188 C[æsalpinia] Pipai produces pods which possess some astringency, and are called Pipi pods. 1895Syd. Soc. Lex., Pi-pi, the astringent legumes of the Cæsalpinia papai.
▪ II. ‖ pipi2|ˈpipi|
Also peppy, pippi(e, pippy.
[Maori.]
1. An edible bivalve mollusc, Amphidesma australe, found on sandy beaches in New Zealand; also, occasionally used for another edible mollusc, Chione stutchburyi. Also attrib.
[1820Gramm. & Vocab. Lang. N. Zealand 193 (Morris) Pipi, a cockle.] 1843J. E. Gray in E. Dieffenbach Trav. N.Z. II. x. [252 Mesodesma Chemnitzii... Called Pipæ by the natives, who eat them as food.] Ibid. 262 Venus intermedia... East Coast; much eaten by the natives; called Pipi. 1852Mundy Our Antipodes (1857) 116 Piles of white shells of the ‘pipi’, or cockle, brought from the seashore for food. 1861A. S. Atkinson Jrnl. 21 Jan. in Richmond–Atkinson Papers (1960) I. 680 Had dinner—well supplied with pipis. 1863F. E. Maning Old N.Z. (ed. 2) iii. 65, I will scrape sharp the point of my spear with a pipi shell. 1873[see kinaki]. 1881J. L. Campbell Poenamo 204 (Morris) Fern-root, flavoured with fish and pippies. 1882T. H. Potts Out in Open 25 (ibid.) Each female is busily employed in scraping the potatoes thoroughly with pipi⁓shells. 1892E. Reeves Homeward Bound 115 Sea-gulls..loath to leave their breakfast of pipis dug out of the sand. 1905[see kuku 2]. 1938R. Finlayson Brown Man's Burden 75 You could scoop up handfuls of big fat pipis.., sifting the sandy mud through your fingers. Ibid., He joined in a game of throwing big empty pipi shells into the air. 1948D. Ballantyne Cunninghams i. viii. 45 She looked..at the Maoris gathering pippis on the mud flat. 1959Tindale & Lindsay Rangatira vii. 68 They would find pipi cockles in the sand of the beach. 1968Morton & Miller N.Z. Sea Shore xviii. 443 They could well be called pipi beaches, for their most typical bivalves are the pipi, Amphidesma australe, higher up the shore, giving place lower down to the cockle or tuangi, Chione stutchburyi, in places designated ‘pipi’ as well. 1972M. Gee In my Father's Den 104 On Takapuna beach..Jonathan was throwing pipi shells into the wind.
2. A similar Australian mollusc, Plebidonax deltoides.
1934Bulletin (Sydney) 14 Mar. 20/4 Whether it [sc. a bird] opens oysters or not is questionable; but it is an expert on pipis. 1952W. J. Dakin et al. Austral. Seashores xvi. 294 The most common mollusc of any size inhabiting the sand of the ocean beaches of New South Wales..is Plebidonax deltoides.., known in this State as the pipi... The pipi lives only a few inches below the surface. 1962Australasian Post 8 Nov. 24/1 The ‘pippie’ is that pink-and-cream shellfish that lives in the sand. 1968Courier-Mail (Brisbane) 14 June 17/8 A young woman..survived for eight days by digging pippie shells from the sand with her hands. 1970People (Austral.) 26 Aug. 45/3 The pipi is similar to the ‘Littleneck’ clam of America's west coast. |