pip

Meaning

Noun

1. Any of various respiratory diseases in birds, especially infectious coryza.
2. (dated, humorous) Of humans, a disease, malaise or depression.

Verb

To remove the pips from.

Verb

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

Verb

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

Synonyms

seed

stone

🪨

pit

grain

shoot

spot

kernel

blip

speck

granule

core

worst

pyrene

signal

semen

sperm

hit

dot

whip

mop up

radar target

point

rack up

chirp

full stop

character

beat out

give birth

full point

fringe

carry

footwork

flash

cannon

beat

ailment

fire

🔥

figure

brand name

mark

manifestation

fail

marker

marking

make

outdo

outgo

outmatch

outplay

lick

Translations

pit

pépin

semente

zaadkorrel

korrel

Kern

seme

pepita

grano

semilla

Korn

graine

grão

κουκούτσι

grana

Pronounced as (IPA)

/pɪp/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: pippe

Inherited from Middle English: pipin

Cognate with French: pépin

In summary

From Middle English pippe, from Middle Dutch pip, from post-classical Latin pipita, from Latin pītuīta (“mucus, phlegm, head cold”). Doublet of pituita.