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🚻 Urine (childish) 🐚 A small clam
pipi

pipi

9.9
A small edible sea clam people eat in New Zealand
  • noun
  • New Zealand
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  • The locals often cook pipi with garlic and butter for a delicious seafood dish.

Examples

  • You can find pipi in the sand at low tide when searching along the coastline.

  • During summer, many families go to the shore to gather pipi for their barbecues.

  • In a beeline to the beach looking for pipi?

    Fiction book (2002)

Surface Forms

pipi singular
pipis plural

Etymology

Pipi for the small clam comes from the Māori language, where pipi is the local name for this little 'clam', so English kept the same name for the seafood.