bippy

Note: The line "You bet your (sweet) bippy!" was popularized in the American television show Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In, which ran from January 1968 to March 1973. George Schlatter, the executive producer of the show, said the following about the word: "Our shows are gone through quite thoroughly for taste. What upsets most of the critics are the jokes they don't understand, and that's more of an educational problem than a taste problem. We say things like 'You bet your bippy!' or 'You bet your nurdle!' I'm sure some people attach a dirty connotation to those words. We don't even know what they mean; they're just funny" (quoted in Joan Barthel, "Hilarious, Brash, Flat, Peppery, Repetitious, Topical and in Borderline Taste," New York Times Magazine, 6 Oct. 1968). The hypothesis that the word was borrowed from Yiddish pipik/pupik "navel" has not been confirmed.