zombola
06-17-2015, 12:24 PM
pip
\ pip \ , verb;
1.
To peep or chirp.
2.
(Of a young bird) to break out from the shell.
3.
To crack or chip a hole through (the shell), as a young bird.
Quotes:
Stone's watch pipped eight o'clock. He had curly hair the color of motor oil, and pale green eyes.
-- Jonathan Franzen, The Twenty-Seventh City
As Fiona's horn pipped , just beyond the cab's black fender.
-- William Gibson, Zero History
Origin:
Pip is a variation on the word peep which arose in the 1600s. It comes from the Lithuanian word pỹpti which was originally imitative of a baby bird.
\ pip \ , verb;
1.
To peep or chirp.
2.
(Of a young bird) to break out from the shell.
3.
To crack or chip a hole through (the shell), as a young bird.
Quotes:
Stone's watch pipped eight o'clock. He had curly hair the color of motor oil, and pale green eyes.
-- Jonathan Franzen, The Twenty-Seventh City
As Fiona's horn pipped , just beyond the cab's black fender.
-- William Gibson, Zero History
Origin:
Pip is a variation on the word peep which arose in the 1600s. It comes from the Lithuanian word pỹpti which was originally imitative of a baby bird.