| 词汇 | pip |
| 词源 | pip. Pip is a shortening of pippin, which is used for an apple of good quality, hence the phrase It’s a pip! The English word has its immediate roots in the French pepin, which probably comes from the French petit, “small.” Sometimes pip is used as a nickname for a small boy, as it was for the cabin boy in Her- man Melville’s Moby Dick. See also apple. |
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