Main Entry: fip·ple flute
Pronunciation: 'fi-p&l-
Function: noun
Etymology: origin unknown
Date: 1911
: any of a group of wind instruments (as a flageolet or recorder) having a straight tubular shape, a whistle mouthpiece, and finger holes
Also: the block in the end of the mouthpiece.
Also: the mouthpiece
"…also defined as one too many drinks at a pub session, as in “(hic!) sure, I’ll have a another little tip…er…thip…er…fipple.”
Redwolf
From Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Fipple Fip"ple (f[~e]r), n. [perh. fr L. fibula a clasp, a
pin; cf Prov. E. fible a stick used to stir pottage.]
A stopper, as in a wind instrument of music. [Obs.] --Bacon.
Steve
Geez, they bit.
o-kay.
Fipple=mistaken spelling of “piffle” a mild expletive from 18-20th century English literature.
see David Lodge. As in Logic (in Ampersand)
Fipple is the other half of an accounting firm somewhere in the Cotswolds.
N, shuffling paper at Dewey, Stickum, & Howe
Judging by the number of replies, fipple is not nearly as much fun as & and chiff.
Mike