Meaning of like a chicken with the pip | Babel Free

Definitions

In a weakened, confused, or sickly manner.

dated, idiomatic

Examples

“Then Condy promptly got the hiccoughs from drinking his tea too fast, and fretted up and down the room like a chicken with the pip.”

“He seemed plumb possessed of gloom, and moped around like a chicken with the pip.”

“Then, after two prodigious parting kicks, accurately gauged and delivered, the gambler crossed over to the hotel, leaving the garrulous one to pick himself out of the dust, gasping like a chicken with the pip.”

CEFR level