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Etymology
Borrowed from Irish soipín.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /zɪˈpiːn/, /sɪˈpiːn/
Noun
zippeen
- A large stack.
1867, “ABOUT AN OLD SOW GOING TO BE KILLED”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 3, page 106:Ich woode be pitcht ee kurkeen, ar zippeen, to a coolaan.- I would be poked into the mow or the stack up to the back of my head.
References
- Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 81