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单词 pipjenny
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pipjennyn.

Brit. /ˈpɪpˌdʒɛni/, U.S. /ˈpɪpˌdʒɛni/
Forms:

α. 1600s pimginit, 1600s pimginnit, 1600s pimipinet, 1600s pimpgenet, 1600s pimpgennet, 1700s pimgennet, 1700s pimginet (Scottish), 1700s– pimgenet; English regional 1700s pinginnet (Dorset), 1800s pimegenet (East Anglian); U.S. regional (chiefly southern) 1800s– pimgenet, 1800s– pipjinnit, 1900s– pimjinnet, 1900s– pimpjennet, 1900s– pinginnet, 1900s– pinginnit, 1900s– pinjinnet.

β. U.S. regional (chiefly southern) 1800s– pipjinny, 1900s– pepjinny, 1900s– pimjimmy, 1900s– pimpjenny, 1900s– pipginny, 1900s– pipjenny.

Origin: Of uncertain origin. Perhaps a variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymon: pimple n.
Etymology: Origin uncertain; perhaps an arbitrarily extended form of pimple n. Forms in pip- perhaps show alteration after pip n.3 (compare pip n.3 2).The etymology suggested by R. Forby (compare quot. a1825) has not been further substantiated.
Now U.S. regional (chiefly southern).
A red pimple on the face.
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1670 in Catal. Prints: Polit. & Personal Satires (Brit. Mus.) (1870) I. 584/2 The Lass, with Wainscot Face, and from Pimipinets free.
1693 tr. A. Cowley Plants i, in Wks. 22 My conquering hand Pimpgenets cannot shun, Nor blackish, yellow spots the Face o'er-run.
1709 E. Ward Secret Hist. Clubs ix. 84 Some drunken Bride's Pimgenet Face.
a1825 R. Forby Vocab. E. Anglia (1830) Pimegenet. 1. A very delicate and mincing diminutive of piemgenet for pomegranate. 2. A small red pimple. Possibly a hyperbolically figurative application of the first sense.
1847 J. O. Halliwell Dict. Archaic & Provinc. Words II Pimgenet, a small red pimple. ‘Nine pimgenets make a pock royal’, Old Saying.
1883 Notes & Queries 21 July 45 Dorsetshire vocabulary... A pinginnet, a pimple on the face.
1899 B. W. Green Word-bk. Virginia Folk-speech 277 Pimgenet, a pimple; a small bile. Pustule.
1952 F. C. Brown Coll. N. Carolina Folklore I. 576 Pimpjennet, pimpjenny, A pimple... Pipjenny, a pimple.
1981 L. A. Pederson et al. Ling. Atlas Gulf States 0194/077 [Georgia] Pip jenny—a rising.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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