Pip
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- A diminutive form of the given names Philip, Phillip, and Philippa.
- 1860 December – 1861 August, Charles Dickens, chapter I, in Great Expectations […], volumes (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Chapman and Hall, […], published October 1861, →OCLC:
- My father’s family name being Pirrip, and my Christian name Philip, my infant tongue could make of both names nothing longer or more explicit than Pip. So, I called myself Pip, and came to be called Pip.