like a chicken with the pip
In a weakened, confused, or sickly manner.
Then Condy promptly got the hiccoughs from drinking his tea too fast, and fretted up and down the room like a chicken with the pip.
noun
Any of various respiratory diseases in birds, especially infectious coryza.
A disease, malaise or depression in humans.
1912, D. H. Lawrence, letter to Edward Garnett I've got the pip horribly at present.
Fer, as the poit sez, me 'eart 'as got / The pip wiv yearnin' fer - I dunno wot.
noun
A pippin, seed of any kind.
A pippin, seed of any kind.
Apple pips are edible, but don't have a pleasant taste.
On most of the shores of the ancient Mediterranean, before any historical record, the cultivated grape vine, Vitis vinifera Linn., was grown. Its relationship to the wild vine of Eurasia, Vitis silvestris Gmel., is uncertain. Its pips can mostly be distinguished from those of the wild vine, and have been found in Egypt and Syrian Hama from the fourth millennium BC, at Lachish and Jericho in the early Bronze, at Troy II during the Bronze, in the Peloponnesus from Early Helladic, in Crete from the Early Minoan.
Something or someone excellent, of high quality.
She sure is a pip, that one. You need company?
P in RAF phonetic alphabet.
verb
To remove the pips from.
Peel and pip the grapes.