pipsqueakn.adj.

Brit.

/ˈpɪpskwiːk/, U.S.

/ˈpɪpˌskwik/

Origin: Apparently formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: pip-pip n., squeak n.

Etymology: Apparently < pip (in pip-pip n.) + squeak n.

A. n.

a. slang. A type of small high-velocity shell distinguished by the sound of its flight. Now historical.

ΘΚΠ

society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > missile > ammunition for firearms > [noun] > bullet or shell > shell > other types of shell

carcass1684

light ball1729

anchor ball1779

shrapnel1810

hollow shot1862

segment-shell1862

blind-shell1864

ring-shot1868

star shell1876

ring-shell1879

pipsqueak1900

Black Maria1914

coal box1914

crump1914

Jack Johnson1914

Archie1915

Little Willie1915

whizz-bang1915

woolly bear1915

fizzbang1916

five-ninea1918

ashcan1918

cream puff1918

sea-bag1918

pudding1919

G.I. can1929

flechette1961

1900 Essex County Standard 23 June 8/3 An interesting collection of shells, fragments, etc., fired into Ladysmith by the Boers, during the siege…5.—‘Pip-Squeak’, 1½-inch maxim quick-firing gun, box of shell and fuse.

1915 Bulletin (Sydney) 28 Oct. 22/2 ‘Pip-squeak’ is a shell thrown by a trench gun.

1938 H. Sloan Purple & Gold 281 Bombs were pumped over No-Man's Land, also frillings in the shape of salvoes of our war-winning ‘pip-squeaks’.

2000 Jrnl. (Newcastle) 1 Jan. 24 In the trenches of the Western Front, the troops were strafed by creeping barrages, trench mortars, pipsqueaks, and whizzbangs.

b. A high-pitched sound; a hooter, horn, etc., which emits such a sound. Also: a slight sound or utterance (cf. peep n.¹ 3).

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > unpleasant quality > shrill quality > [noun] > thin and shrill sound > squeak

squeakinga1616

squeak1805

squeaklet1832

squeakiness1846

squirk1902

pipsqueak1927

the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > voice or vocal sound > quality of voice > [noun] > power or range of voice > small or weak voice > utterance in

peep1808

pipsqueak1927

1927 ‘Ixion’ Further Motor Cycle Reminisc. 100 Hooters..fitted with rather wafery clips, such as still linger on bicycle ‘pipsqueaks’.

1943 C. H. Ward-Jackson It's a Piece of Cake 48 This instrument emits a pip-squeak at short intervals which is synchronised over the radio with base.

1956 E. Pound tr. Sophocles Women of Trachis 16 Hasn't uttered a pip-squeak Since she came down from the windy country.

1963 J. Hitrec tr. I. Andríc Bosnian Chron. iv. 66 He no longer roused the bazaar with his old ringing baritone, but announced the official and market news in a hoarse pipsqueak.

c. R.A.F. slang. An automatic radio transmitter in a fighter aircraft that transmits pulses to help ground crews fix its position. Now historical.

ΘΚΠ

society > travel > air or space travel > a means of conveyance through the air > aeroplane > parts of aircraft > controls and instruments > [noun] > navigational instrument

navigation instrument1897

pipsqueak1943

black box1945

navaid1956

1943 C. H. Ward-Jackson It's a Piece of Cake 48 Pip-squeak, the instrument in an aircraft by the aid of which one gets a ‘Fix’. This instrument emits a pip-squeak at short intervals which is synchronised over the radio with base, thus fixing the time, an essential prelude to fixing the position of the aircraft.

1946 P. Brickhill & C. Norton Escape to Danger vi. 60 Forgetting to switch off his ‘pip-squeak’ (radio contactor), Mickey climbed thankfully out on to the wing.

1967 R. Spencer in E. Partridge Dict. Slang (1970) II. 1330/2 The pip-squeak was an automatic transmitter only, whose once-a-minute signals enabled ground direction-finding stations to fix the aircraft's position.

2. colloquial. An insignificant person or thing; a youngster.In quot. 1902 as a nickname.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > [noun] > one who is unimportant

unknownc1390

pawnc1450

semi-cipher?1550

bauble1570

Jack with the feather1581

nobody1583

winterling1585

squash1600

rush candle1628

niflec1635

nullity1657

nonentity1710

featherweight1812

underscrub1822

nyaff1825

small fish1836

no-account1840

little fish1846

peanut1864

commonplacer1874

sparrow-fart1886

Little Willie1901

pipsqueak1905

nebbish1907

pie-biter1911

blob1916

smallie1930

no-count1932

zilch1933

Mickey Mouse1935

muzhik1945

nerd1951

nothingburger1953

nerk1955

non-person1959

no-mark1982

the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > [noun] > that which is unimportant > of little importance or trivial

gnatc1000

ball play?c1225

smalla1250

triflec1290

fly1297

child's gamec1380

motec1390

mitec1400

child's playc1405

trufferyc1429

toyc1450

curiosity1474

fly-winga1500

neither mass nor matins1528

boys' play1538

nugament1543

knack?1544

fable1552

nincety-fincety1566

mouse1584

molehill1590

coot1594

scoff1594

nidgery1611

pin matter1611

triviality1611

minuity1612

feathera1616

fillip1621

rattle1622

fiddlesticka1625

apex1625

rush candle1628

punctilio1631

rushlight1635

notchet1637

peppercorn1638

petty John1640

emptiness1646

fool-fangle1647

nonny-no1652

crepundian1655

fly-biting1659

pushpin1660

whinny-whanny1673

whiffle1680

straw1692

two and a plack1692

fiddle1695

trivial1715

barley-strawa1721

nothingism1742

curse1763

nihility1765

minutia1782

bee's knee1797

minutiae1797

niff-naff1808

playwork1824

floccinaucity1829

trivialism1830

chicken feed1834

nonsensical1842

meemaw1862

infinitesimality1867

pinfall1868

fidfad1875

flummadiddle1882

quantité négligeable1885

quotidian1902

pipsqueak1905

hickey1909

piddle1910

cream puff1920

squat1934

administrivia1937

chickenshit1938

cream puff1938

diddly-squat1963

non-issue1965

Tinkertoy1972

1902 Punch 8 Oct. 251/2 (caption) Mr. Pipsqueak (more proficient with the ‘long-bow’ than the shot-gun.)]

1905 Tatler 19 Apr. 110/1 I went to Manager Henry Savage and told him I wanted to act. He laffed, thought I was a funny little thing, thought I was a pip-squeak.

1910 E. V. Lucas Slowcoach xxiii. 279 ‘It belongs to one of those measly pip-squeaks,’ said Robert.

1926 Blackwood's Mag. June 732/2 After all, the luxurious liner which connects this riotous spot with the outer world is only a pip-squeak of a vessel.

1973 ‘H. Howard’ Highway to Murder vi. 65 For a little pip-squeak you make a big noise.

2007 K. Dodson & R. K. Dodson Poet & Sailor Foreword p. xi When the poet and the sailor were sending letters back and forth across a continent and an ocean in wartime, Richard Dodson, editor of this collection, was a small boy—‘a pipsqueak’, his father called him.

B. adj.

†1. Designating a type of small high-velocity shell distinguished by the sound of its flight. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > missile > ammunition for firearms > [adjective] > types of bullet or shell

armour-piercinga1686

rifled1797

high-velocity1854

smooth-bore1859

subcalibre1863

whistling1864

full-metal-jacketed1896

full-metal-jacket1898

pipsqueak1916

1916 ‘B. Cable’ Action Front 17 You don't think a pifflin' little Pip-Squeak shell could go through his head?

1916 Cornhill Mag. Mar. 395 They're ‘pip-squeak’ and splinter-proof, of course.

1917 Times 22 June 7/2 On either side of the nest and within two yards of it is a ‘pip-squeak’ shell hole, very recently made.

2. Small; insignificant.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > quantity > smallness of quantity, amount, or degree > [adjective]

littleeOE

smalla1350

poor1598

pipsqueak1920

pisher1958

diddy1963

1920 N.Z. Parl. Deb. 189 321/1 There are votes put on the estimates for all the pip-squeak little railways that are going on now in the country.

1946 Richmond (Vancouver) Times-Dispatch 20 Jan. 1. 14/8 Specifically, [Senator] Wiley charged that the organization..has ‘created czars out of pipsqueak juveniles’.

1989 New Yorker 18 Sept. 26/3 Unaware of what has happened, and unable to hear their pipsqueak cries, Dad sweeps them into a dustpan.

2013 J. W. Minton Semper Fi i. 1 So often it has been seen, how a pipsqueak kid of lesser height signs up for a tour with the United States Marine Corps.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	pipsqueak
释义	pipsqueakn.adj. Brit. /ˈpɪpskwiːk/, U.S. /ˈpɪpˌskwik/ Origin: Apparently formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: pip-pip n., squeak n. Etymology: Apparently < pip (in pip-pip n.) + squeak n. A. n. 1. a. slang. A type of small high-velocity shell distinguished by the sound of its flight. Now historical. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > missile > ammunition for firearms > [noun] > bullet or shell > shell > other types of shell carcass1684 light ball1729 anchor ball1779 shrapnel1810 hollow shot1862 segment-shell1862 blind-shell1864 ring-shot1868 star shell1876 ring-shell1879 pipsqueak1900 Black Maria1914 coal box1914 crump1914 Jack Johnson1914 Archie1915 Little Willie1915 whizz-bang1915 woolly bear1915 fizzbang1916 five-ninea1918 ashcan1918 cream puff1918 sea-bag1918 pudding1919 G.I. can1929 flechette1961 1900 Essex County Standard 23 June 8/3 An interesting collection of shells, fragments, etc., fired into Ladysmith by the Boers, during the siege…5.—‘Pip-Squeak’, 1½-inch maxim quick-firing gun, box of shell and fuse. 1915 Bulletin (Sydney) 28 Oct. 22/2 ‘Pip-squeak’ is a shell thrown by a trench gun. 1938 H. Sloan Purple & Gold 281 Bombs were pumped over No-Man's Land, also frillings in the shape of salvoes of our war-winning ‘pip-squeaks’. 2000 Jrnl. (Newcastle) 1 Jan. 24 In the trenches of the Western Front, the troops were strafed by creeping barrages, trench mortars, pipsqueaks, and whizzbangs. b. A high-pitched sound; a hooter, horn, etc., which emits such a sound. Also: a slight sound or utterance (cf. peep n.¹ 3). ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > unpleasant quality > shrill quality > [noun] > thin and shrill sound > squeak squeakinga1616 squeak1805 squeaklet1832 squeakiness1846 squirk1902 pipsqueak1927 the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > voice or vocal sound > quality of voice > [noun] > power or range of voice > small or weak voice > utterance in peep1808 pipsqueak1927 1927 ‘Ixion’ Further Motor Cycle Reminisc. 100 Hooters..fitted with rather wafery clips, such as still linger on bicycle ‘pipsqueaks’. 1943 C. H. Ward-Jackson It's a Piece of Cake 48 This instrument emits a pip-squeak at short intervals which is synchronised over the radio with base. 1956 E. Pound tr. Sophocles Women of Trachis 16 Hasn't uttered a pip-squeak Since she came down from the windy country. 1963 J. Hitrec tr. I. Andríc Bosnian Chron. iv. 66 He no longer roused the bazaar with his old ringing baritone, but announced the official and market news in a hoarse pipsqueak. c. R.A.F. slang. An automatic radio transmitter in a fighter aircraft that transmits pulses to help ground crews fix its position. Now historical. ΘΚΠ society > travel > air or space travel > a means of conveyance through the air > aeroplane > parts of aircraft > controls and instruments > [noun] > navigational instrument navigation instrument1897 pipsqueak1943 black box1945 navaid1956 1943 C. H. Ward-Jackson It's a Piece of Cake 48 Pip-squeak, the instrument in an aircraft by the aid of which one gets a ‘Fix’. This instrument emits a pip-squeak at short intervals which is synchronised over the radio with base, thus fixing the time, an essential prelude to fixing the position of the aircraft. 1946 P. Brickhill & C. Norton Escape to Danger vi. 60 Forgetting to switch off his ‘pip-squeak’ (radio contactor), Mickey climbed thankfully out on to the wing. 1967 R. Spencer in E. Partridge Dict. Slang (1970) II. 1330/2 The pip-squeak was an automatic transmitter only, whose once-a-minute signals enabled ground direction-finding stations to fix the aircraft's position. 2. colloquial. An insignificant person or thing; a youngster.In quot. 1902 as a nickname. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > [noun] > one who is unimportant unknownc1390 pawnc1450 semi-cipher?1550 bauble1570 Jack with the feather1581 nobody1583 winterling1585 squash1600 rush candle1628 niflec1635 nullity1657 nonentity1710 featherweight1812 underscrub1822 nyaff1825 small fish1836 no-account1840 little fish1846 peanut1864 commonplacer1874 sparrow-fart1886 Little Willie1901 pipsqueak1905 nebbish1907 pie-biter1911 blob1916 smallie1930 no-count1932 zilch1933 Mickey Mouse1935 muzhik1945 nerd1951 nothingburger1953 nerk1955 non-person1959 no-mark1982 the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > [noun] > that which is unimportant > of little importance or trivial gnatc1000 ball play?c1225 smalla1250 triflec1290 fly1297 child's gamec1380 motec1390 mitec1400 child's playc1405 trufferyc1429 toyc1450 curiosity1474 fly-winga1500 neither mass nor matins1528 boys' play1538 nugament1543 knack?1544 fable1552 nincety-fincety1566 mouse1584 molehill1590 coot1594 scoff1594 nidgery1611 pin matter1611 triviality1611 minuity1612 feathera1616 fillip1621 rattle1622 fiddlesticka1625 apex1625 rush candle1628 punctilio1631 rushlight1635 notchet1637 peppercorn1638 petty John1640 emptiness1646 fool-fangle1647 nonny-no1652 crepundian1655 fly-biting1659 pushpin1660 whinny-whanny1673 whiffle1680 straw1692 two and a plack1692 fiddle1695 trivial1715 barley-strawa1721 nothingism1742 curse1763 nihility1765 minutia1782 bee's knee1797 minutiae1797 niff-naff1808 playwork1824 floccinaucity1829 trivialism1830 chicken feed1834 nonsensical1842 meemaw1862 infinitesimality1867 pinfall1868 fidfad1875 flummadiddle1882 quantité négligeable1885 quotidian1902 pipsqueak1905 hickey1909 piddle1910 cream puff1920 squat1934 administrivia1937 chickenshit1938 cream puff1938 diddly-squat1963 non-issue1965 Tinkertoy1972 1902 Punch 8 Oct. 251/2 (caption) Mr. Pipsqueak (more proficient with the ‘long-bow’ than the shot-gun.)] 1905 Tatler 19 Apr. 110/1 I went to Manager Henry Savage and told him I wanted to act. He laffed, thought I was a funny little thing, thought I was a pip-squeak. 1910 E. V. Lucas Slowcoach xxiii. 279 ‘It belongs to one of those measly pip-squeaks,’ said Robert. 1926 Blackwood's Mag. June 732/2 After all, the luxurious liner which connects this riotous spot with the outer world is only a pip-squeak of a vessel. 1973 ‘H. Howard’ Highway to Murder vi. 65 For a little pip-squeak you make a big noise. 2007 K. Dodson & R. K. Dodson Poet & Sailor Foreword p. xi When the poet and the sailor were sending letters back and forth across a continent and an ocean in wartime, Richard Dodson, editor of this collection, was a small boy—‘a pipsqueak’, his father called him. B. adj. †1. Designating a type of small high-velocity shell distinguished by the sound of its flight. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > missile > ammunition for firearms > [adjective] > types of bullet or shell armour-piercinga1686 rifled1797 high-velocity1854 smooth-bore1859 subcalibre1863 whistling1864 full-metal-jacketed1896 full-metal-jacket1898 pipsqueak1916 1916 ‘B. Cable’ Action Front 17 You don't think a pifflin' little Pip-Squeak shell could go through his head? 1916 Cornhill Mag. Mar. 395 They're ‘pip-squeak’ and splinter-proof, of course. 1917 Times 22 June 7/2 On either side of the nest and within two yards of it is a ‘pip-squeak’ shell hole, very recently made. 2. Small; insignificant. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > quantity > smallness of quantity, amount, or degree > [adjective] littleeOE smalla1350 poor1598 pipsqueak1920 pisher1958 diddy1963 1920 N.Z. Parl. Deb. 189 321/1 There are votes put on the estimates for all the pip-squeak little railways that are going on now in the country. 1946 Richmond (Vancouver) Times-Dispatch 20 Jan. 1. 14/8 Specifically, [Senator] Wiley charged that the organization..has ‘created czars out of pipsqueak juveniles’. 1989 New Yorker 18 Sept. 26/3 Unaware of what has happened, and unable to hear their pipsqueak cries, Dad sweeps them into a dustpan. 2013 J. W. Minton Semper Fi i. 1 So often it has been seen, how a pipsqueak kid of lesser height signs up for a tour with the United States Marine Corps. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). pipsqueakv. Brit. /ˈpɪpskwiːk/, U.S. /ˈpɪpˌskwik/ Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: pipsqueak n. Etymology: < pipsqueak n. rare. intransitive. To make a high-pitched sound; to speak or sing in a shrill or quiet voice. ΚΠ 1922 Blackwood's Mag. June 699/2 She heard just then her Tom pip-squeaking on his pipe. 1982 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 11 Dec. i. 17/1 My God, I was speaking in a whisper. I'm in my little velvet hat and furs pipsqueaking all over the stage. 2003 Star Tribune (Minneapolis) (Nexis) 4 Sept. 5 b He crooned, bellowed and pipsqueaked loudly as his band played a funkier, Neptunes-style version of ‘Cry Me a River’. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.adj.1900v.1922
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pipsqueakn.adj.

pipsqueakv.