piping
/ˈpaɪpɪŋ/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.42 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The process of an animal just beginning to break out of its egg; precedes hatching.
Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "The cicale above in the lime, / And the lizards below in the grass, / Were as silent as ever old Tmolus was, / Listening to my sweet pipings."
- "the piping of a house"
- "His piping voice could be heard above the hubbub."
- "The princess had made occasional wartime radio broadcasts, her piping, stilted voice, speaking in cut-glass tones to the children of the empire, but it was at the time of her 21st birthday in 1947 that she made perhaps the most significant radio address of her career, at the end of a royal tour of South Africa, laying out the guidelines that would govern her throughout her reign:"