piping : Idioms & Phrases

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Piping crow, Piping crow shrike, Piping roller

  • (Zoöl.), any Australian bird of the genus Gymnorhina, esp. G. tibicen, which is black and white, and the size of a small crow. Called also caruck.
Webster 1913

Piping frog

  • (Zoöl.), a small American tree frog (Hyla Pickeringii) which utters a high, shrill note in early spring.
Webster 1913

Piping hot

  • boiling hot; hissing hot; very hot. Colloq.
Webster 1913