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Quotation dates: 1513, 1572-1648
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Pip-, Pyping, ppl. a. Also: pypp-. ME. and e.m.E. pipyng Pipe v.1 or v.2 (Chaucer), until 1592 appar. only in the phr. pipyng-hot (of a dish freshly cooked) ‘so hot as to make a piping or hissing sound’ (OED.), also in e.m.E. = fresh, quite new, f. Pipe v.1] a. Of a wind: That makes a shrill or whistling sound. Also fig. 1513 Doug. iii. ii. 3.
The softe piping wynd callyng to see Thar schippis 1513 Ib. vi. 177.
Quhil percace The piping [Ruddim. pyping] wynd blaw vp the dur on char, And dryve the leiffis [etc.] — ?a1648 Polemo-Middinia 113.
Si forte vidisses Pypantes arsas & flavo sanguine breickas Dripantes
b. Sizzling. Also quasi-adv. in pypping hait. Cf. Pipand ppl. a.2 c. ? Glistening (with hot fat). Cf. Pipand ppl. a.1 1572 Satirical Poems xxxiii. 396.
Thair was, to recomfort him, Peirtryks and pleuers pyping on the speit 1603 Philotus xxi.
Ane pair of pleuaris pypping hait, Ane pertrick and ane quailȝie get
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