1540 T. Elyot Def. Good Women sig. Ciii^v I wyll..open your cobnut, that to all theym that wyl be contented with reason, it shall appere well, that it is pypped.

1542 T. Elyot Bibliotheca Cassa nux, a pypped nutte.

1567 T. Harding Reioindre to M. Iewels Replie against Masse i. f. 8^v Belonged it to their grauitie, holinesse, and loue of truth..to serue Gods people with voide and empty words, as it were with pipt nuttes?

1640 R. Brome Sparagus Garden v. ii A pipt Nutshell and a Maggot in't.

1797 A. M. Bennett Beggar Girl V. v. 115 There's poor Horace sick in his hammock, and the Admiral croaking like a pip'd hen.

1845 G. P. R. James Arrah Neil I. ii. 25 You have no more stomach than a pipped hen.

1914 A. M. N. Lyons Simple Simon i. vi. 100 ‘How's Leverton?’ ‘Rather pipped, thank you,’ replied Miss Disney. ‘Poor old Ma was raw-beefing him when I left.’

1927 J. Drinkwater Bird in Hand i. 28 He was very keen on my joining him in Yeast, and was rather pipped about my declining.

2002 Sunday Star-Times (Auckland) (Nexis) 26 May 1 A devastated Peter Doig said last night credit cards, cash, and a mobile phone were stolen... ‘We're a bit pipped about it to say the least.’

1866 Atlantic Monthly June 680/1 There are two young birds and one little specked egg, just pipped.

1953 N. Tinbergen Herring Gull's World xviii. 161 In most of the pipped eggs there is a line of cracks around the obtuse pole.

1990 New Scientist 22 Dec. 11/2 A second egg was at the pipped stage.

1911 J. Masefield Everlasting Mercy 26 Si's wife came in and sipped and sipped (As women will) till she was pipped.

1913 J. London John Barleycorn (1998) xviii. 152 They had got their previous guest of honor, a brilliant young radical, unskilled in drinking, quite pipped.

1929 M. de la Roche Whiteoaks vii. 110 Lilly, here, can't see the strings. He's pipped, aren't you, Lilly?