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▪ I. † pipped, ? ppl. a.1 Obs. Also 7 pipt. [In form, pa. pple. of pip v.2 sense 2, but the latter is not known so early.] Cracked, as a nut.
1545Elyot Dict., Cassa nux, a pypped nutte. 1552Huloet, Pipped nutte, cassa nux. 1640Brome Sparagus Gard. v. ii, A pipt Nutshell and a Maggot in't. ▪ II. pipped see also pip v.2, v.4. ▪ III. pipped, a.1|pɪpt| [f. pip n.1 (or v.1) + -ed.] a. Affected with the pip.
1797A. M. Bennett Beggar Girl (1813) III. 284 There's poor Horace sick in his hammock, and the admiral croaking like a piped hen. 1845James A. Neil ii, You have no more stomach than a pipped hen. b. Annoyed, irritated.
1914A. M. N. Lyons Simple Simon i. vi. 100 ‘How's Leverton?’ ‘Rather pipped, thank you,’ replied Miss Disney. ‘Poor old Ma was raw-beefing him when I left.’ 1941Baker Dict. Austral. Slang 54 Pipped, pippy, irritated, angry, out of sorts. ▪ IV. pipped, a.2|pɪpt| [Perh. f. pip v.3] Tipsy, drunk.
1911J. Masefield Everlasting Mercy 26 Si's wife came in and sipped and sipped (As women will) till she was pipped. 1929M. de la Roche Whiteoaks vii. 110 Lilly, here, can't see the strings. He's pipped, aren't you, Lilly? |