pippin

American  

[pip-in] / ˈpɪp ɪn /

noun

1. any of numerous roundish or oblate varieties of apple.

2. Botany. a seed.

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pippin British  

/ ˈpɪpɪn /

noun

1. any of several varieties of eating apple with a rounded oblate shape

2. the seed of any of these fruits

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Etymology

Origin of pippin

1250–1300; Middle English pipin, variant of pepin < Old French

Example Sentences

Fellow hobbits “Sam, Merry and Pippin set out to retrace the first steps of their adventure” while a new generation seeks to unearth a “long-buried secret.”

From Los Angeles Times

The film's official synopsis says: "Fourteen years after the passing of Frodo, Sam, Merry and Pippin set out to retrace the first steps of their adventure. Meanwhile, Sam's daughter, Elanor, has discovered a long-buried secret and is determined to uncover why the War of the Ring was very nearly lost before it even began."

From BBC

He loitered in the streets with his friends and called them “my pippin.”

From The Wall Street Journal

Rich Pippin, president of the Assn. for Los Angeles Deputy Sheriffs, called it the “worst day in the history of the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department.”

From Los Angeles Times

Merry and Pippin, declare that after reading “The Lord of the Rings” after college, “I realized that Aragorn is the Apollonian model of manhood … The Hobbits are us. And we should love life as much as they do.”

From Los Angeles Times