pippie

English

Etymology 1

Likely borrowed from Maori pipi (“Paphies australis”).

Noun

pippie (plural pippies)

1. (Australia, New Zealand) A cockle.
   • 1937, New Zealand Dental Journal - Volume 33, page 167:

     By the way, the common "pippie” contains it in small amounts, so does shark liver oil, if you like it.

   • 1959, Marie Maddox, Children of Samoa: A True Story of the Children of Western Samoa:

     Sieni came running from behind a fallen coconut tree beside the lagoon with her skirt gathered up in her hands, and full of pippies and sea eggs.

   • 1968, New South Wales. Parliament, Parliamentary Debates, page 311:

     Our beaches have always been a tremendous tourist attraction to surfers and fishermen, but with the spoliation of some of them and the destruction of pippie beds there has been a continual outcry against the mining companies—so much so that the companies themselves have attempted to allay the outcry and create a better public image for themselves.

   • 2013, Sandy Thorne, Old-Timers: Magnificent Stories from Mighty Australians, page 4:

     Down on the beach, we'd all gather and load pippie and oyster shells, to be burnt then added as lime to the sandy soil.

Etymology 2

Possibly an alternative form of peepee.

Noun

pippie (plural pippies)

1. (childish, colloquial) The penis.
   • 1998, David Medalie, Encounters: an anthology of South African short stories, page 192:

     At thirteen, my own pippie was stirred by the sight of girls in our school.

   • 2000, Carl Muller, Once Upon A Tender Time:

     He would have seen Poddi's pippie place also but the girl had twisted away as she wore her cloth.

   • 2003, Claude Maredza, Oh, Too Celibate?!!, page 6:

     The old men there get their little shrunken pippies into little girls;