2. The seed of a fleshy fruit; a pip.
3. Informal. A person or thing that is admired.
“Eat up the elements of the world,
rinse out your mouth with the sky,
and like a pippin spit out the moon,
any moon,
no moon."
—Nina Cassian, “Joyful Sacrifice”
pippin, n.
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2. The seed of a fleshy fruit; a pip.
3. Informal. A person or thing that is admired.
“Eat up the elements of the world,
rinse out your mouth with the sky,
and like a pippin spit out the moon,
any moon,
no moon."
—Nina Cassian, “Joyful Sacrifice”