Pippi Longstocking

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Pippi Longstocking as portrayed by Inger Nilsson
A very realistic painting of Pippi Longstocking and her pet monkey, Mr. Nilsson.

Etymology

Named after the character created by Astrid Lindgren, calque of Swedish Pippi Långstrump.

Pronunciation

Noun

Pippi Longstocking (plural Pippi Longstockings)

  1. A person, especially a girl or woman, with long or flamboyant red hair, especially in pigtails or parted down the middle, and prominent freckles.
    • 2007, Karen Robards, Ghost Moon, Random House:
      Little and skinny for ten years old, cursed with waist-length hair and freckles that all the kids teased made her look just like Pippi Longstocking, she had been, that day, the butt of jokes from the entire fifth grade.
    • 2009, Rachel Shteir, Gypsy: the Art of the Tease, Yale University Press, page 140:
      She has threaded rags through her hair, tying it in two Pippi Longstocking braids.
    • 2010, Laura DuPriest, Natural Beauty: Pamper Yourself with Salon Secrets at Home, Random House, page 15:
      If I turned around, you could see a bizarre array of silver clippies, and a “Pippi Longstocking” part down the middle.
    • 2011, Julia Watts, Finding H. F., Bella Books:
      Put her in pigtails and stick her finger in a light socket, and she’d be Pippi Longstocking.
    • 2012, Kate Bornstein, A Queer and Pleasant Danger: The true story of a nice Jewish boy who joins the Church of Scientology, and leaves twelve years later to become the lovely lady she is today, Beacon Press:
      I was positively Pippi Longstocking, minus the pigtails.
  2. A person, especially a girl or woman, given to headstrong, wild behaviour, flights of fancy, or irrepressible optimism.
    Synonym: Pollyanna
    • 2002 October 23, Ella Taylor with Frida (reviewer), “Sex-mad and Self-obsessed”, in LA Weekly:
      Then we’re swept back to her school days, where we see her giggling like a regular Pippi Longstocking as she spies on Rivera (Alfred Molina) applying his creative juices to an artist’s model while being berated by his wife (Valeria Golino).
    • 2014, P. V. Lundqvist, The Counterfeit Father: A Tony Pandy Mystery, Stick Raven Press:
      You’re a regular Pippi Longstocking, you know that?
    • 2015, Patrice Vecchione, Step Into Nature: Nurturing Imagination and Spirit in Everyday Life, Simon & Schuster, page 10:
      Have I discovered my inner Pippi Longstocking?

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