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give someone the pip Definition


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pip5
noun
    1. old use
      A disease of poultry and other fowl.
Idiom: give someone the pip
    colloq
    To irritate them.
Etymology: 15c as pippe: Dutch, perhaps ultimately from Latin pituita rheum or mucus.



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