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pip

English

Pronunciation

  • enPR: p?p, IPA(key): /p?p/
  • Rhymes: -?p

Etymology 1

From Middle English pippe, from Middle Dutch pip, from post-classical Latin pipita, from Latin p?tu?ta.

Noun

pip (plural pips)

  1. Any of various respiratory diseases in birds, especially infectious coryza. [from the 15th c.]
  2. (humorous) Of humans, a disease, malaise or depression.
    • 1912, D. H. Lawrence, letter to Edward Garnett
      I've got the pip horribly at present.
Derived terms
  • like a chicken with the pip
Translations

Etymology 2

Apparently representing a shortened form of pippin, from Middle English pipin, from Old French pepin (a seed) (French pépin).

Noun

pip (plural pips)

  1. (obsolete) A pippin, seed of any kind.
    1. (Britain) A seed inside certain fleshy fruits (compare stone/pit), such as a peach, orange, or apple.
  2. (US, colloquial) Something or someone excellent, of high quality.
    • 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage 2007, p. 612:
      She sure is a pip, that one. You need company?
  3. (Britain, dated, WW I, signalese) P in RAF phonetic alphabet.
Derived terms
  • pip emma
  • until the pips squeak
Translations

Etymology 3

Origin uncertain, perhaps related to Etymology 2, above.

Noun

pip (plural pips)

  1. One of the spots or symbols on a playing card, domino, die, etc.
  2. (military, public service) One of the stylised version of the Bath star worn on the shoulder of a uniform to denote rank, e.g. of a soldier or a fireman.
  3. A spot; a speck.
  4. A spot of light or an inverted V indicative of a return of radar waves reflected from an object; a blip.
  5. A piece of rhizome with a dormant shoot of the lily of the valley plant, used for propagation
Synonyms
  • (symbol on playing card etc): spot
Translations

Verb

pip (third-person singular simple present pips, present participle pipping, simple past and past participle pipped)

  1. To get the better of; to defeat by a narrow margin
  2. To hit with a gunshot

Etymology 4

Imitative.

Verb

pip (third-person singular simple present pips, present participle pipping, simple past and past participle pipped)

  1. To peep, to chirp
  2. (avian biology) To make the initial hole during the process of hatching from an egg

Etymology 5

Imitative.

Noun

pip (plural pips)

  1. One of a series of very short, electronically produced tones, used, for example, to count down the final few seconds before a given time or to indicate that a caller using a payphone needs to make further payment if he is to continue his call.
    • 1982 John Banville, The Newton Letter
      I could clearly hear the frequent cataclysms of the upstairs lavatory, and my day began with the pips for the morning news in Charlotte Lawless's kitchen.
Synonyms
  • (electronic sound, counting down seconds): stroke
Translations

Etymology 6

Abbreviation of percentage in point.

Noun

pip (plural pips)

  1. (finance, currency trading) The smallest price increment between two currencies in foreign exchange (forex) trading.

Related terms

  • pip to the post
  • pip at the post
  • pipsqueak
  • give the pip to, give someone the pip

Anagrams

  • IPP, PPI

Albanian

Etymology 1

A descriptive term, similar to German piepen and Latin pip?re.

Verb

pip (first-person singular past tense pipa, participle pipur)

  1. to peep, to chirp

Etymology 2

From Romance *p?pa, also present in Old French pipe, Italian pipa etc.

Noun

pip f (indefinite plural pipa, definite singular pipa, definite plural pipat)

  1. sprout, shoot
  2. pipe, tube

Danish

Etymology

From Old Norse *pípa, from Proto-Germanic *p?pan?.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pip/, [p?ib?]

Noun

pip n (singular definite pippet, plural indefinite pip)

  1. chirp, peep, tweet
  2. bleep

Inflection

Noun

pip n

  1. (dated) nonsense, gibberish, madness
    • 2015, William Heinesen, Tårnet ved verdens ende: En poetisk mosaik-roman om den yngste ungdom, Gyldendal A/S ?ISBN
      Sådan noget pip!
    • 1975, Manfred Spliedt, Sådan en dum knægt
      Sikke noget pip.
    • 1975, Aksel Sandemose, Minner fra andre dager
      Jeg var forarget over saadan noget Pip ...

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch pip (disease of poultry, also of people), from post-classical Latin pipita, from Latin p?tu?ta (slime, head cold).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /p?p/
  • Hyphenation: pip
  • Rhymes: -?p

Noun

pip m (uncountable)

  1. Pip (any of various respiratory diseases in birds, especially infectious coryza).
  2. (humorous or colloquial) Of humans, a disease (particularly the common cold or the flu), malaise or depression.

Derived terms

  • pips
  • de pip krijgen

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

Onomatopoeic.

Interjection

pip

  1. peep
  2. squeak

Noun

pip n (definite singular pipet, indefinite plural pip, definite plural pipa)

  1. peeping sound
  2. act of producing a single peeping sound

Etymology 2

Specialized use of Etymology 1.

Noun

pip m (definite singular pipen, indefinite plural pipar, definite plural pipane)

  1. used in the expression ta pipen frå.
    1. resolve

Etymology 3

Noun

pip m (definite singular pipen, indefinite plural pipar, definite plural pipane)

  1. peepee, penis

References

  • “pip” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Norse *pípa, from Proto-Germanic *p?pan?.

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -i?p

Noun

pip n

  1. squeak, beep

Declension

Verb

pip

  1. imperative of pipa.

Volapük

Etymology

Borrowed from French pipe and English pipe.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pip/

Noun

pip (nominative plural pips)

  1. pipe (for smoking)

Declension

Related terms

  • smokön
  • tabak

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beep

English

Etymology

Onomatopoeic.(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “how old is this word?”)

Pronunciation

  • enPR: b?p, IPA(key): /bi?p/
  • Rhymes: -i?p

Noun

beep (plural beeps)

  1. The sound produced by the horn of a car, or any similar sound.
  2. A short, electronically produced tone.

Synonyms

  • (electronically produced): bleep; see also Thesaurus:beep

Translations

Verb

beep (third-person singular simple present beeps, present participle beeping, simple past and past participle beeped)

  1. (transitive) To sound (something that makes a beep).
    The motorists in the traffic jam were getting more and more frustrated and started beeping their horns.
  2. (transitive, informal, euphemistic) To have sexual intercourse with - referring to the bleep tone used to censor obscene words in broadcasts
    Jason beeped Sharlene after they had drunk a few beers.
  3. (intransitive) To produce a beep.
  4. (transitive) To contact (someone via) a pager device.
  5. (transitive) To telephone a person, only allowing the phone to ring once, in order to request a call back.
    Susan beeped Jessica, and then Jessica called her back, because Susan didn't have enough credit on her phone to make the call.

Synonyms

  • (sound (a car horn)): honk, hoot, sound, toot
  • (to have intercourse with): sleep with, fuck; see also Thesaurus:copulate with
  • (telephoning): flash

Translations

See also

  • pip

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from English beep.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /bip/

Noun

beep n (plural beep-uri)

  1. beep

Declension

References

  • beep in DEX online - Dic?ionare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)

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