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🧑‍🏫 A family name 🐇 A rabbit character
Pipkin

Pipkin

9.9
A small shy rabbit in the novel Watership Down
  • proper noun
  • Literature
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  • In Richard Adams's novel, Pipkin represents the smaller, more fearful rabbits in the warren.

Examples

  • I'm worn out, and Pipkin's even worse off than me.

    Watership Down (1978)

  • While other rabbits were bold, Pipkin often hesitated, worried about what lay ahead.

  • I intended to bring in a book by Pipkin that has sort of the beauty of fractals is his title has pictures of the Mandelbrot set.

  • Pipkin was always the last to hop into the burrow during the group's escape.

Surface Forms

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Etymology

Pipkin is the name of a small, shy rabbit and the name helps you remember that because it comes from the tiny word pip, meaning 'a small seed or a short sound', plus the ending -kin meaning 'little'. That's why the character feels like a 'small, gentle one' in the story.