Pippi Longstocking
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Pippi Longstocking
- /ˈpɪpɪ lɒŋˈstɒkɪŋ/ UK
Rhymes with -ɒkɪŋ
Where it comes from
From long + stocking, calque of Swedish Pippi Långstrump. As a common noun, after the appearance and nature of the fictional character.
proper noun
- A fictional red-haired girl created by Swedish author Astrid Lindgren, who lives with her animals in her pirate father's villa and takes her friends on numerous adventures.
noun Pippi Longstockings
- A person, especially a girl or woman, with long or flamboyant red hair, especially in pigtails or parted down the middle, and prominent freckles. 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.
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A person, especially a girl or woman, given to headstrong, wild behaviour, flights of fancy, or irrepressible optimism.
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).
Similar: Pollyanna
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name fictional character by Astrid Lindgren
| Español | Pippi Calzaslargas, Pippa Mediaslargas |
|---|---|
| 한국어 | 말괄량이 삐삐 Malgwallyang'i Ppippi |
| 日本語 | 長くつ下のピッピ Nagakutsushita no Pippi |
| 中文 | 長襪子皮皮 /长袜子皮皮 Chángwàzi Pípí |
| Português | Pipi das Meias Altas, Píppi Meialonga |
| Français | Fifi Brindacier |
| Deutsch | Pippi Langstrumpf |
| Italiano | Pippi Calzelunghe |
| Ελληνικά | Πίπη η Φακιδομύτη Pípi i Fakidomýti |
| Русский | Пе́ппи Длинныйчуло́к Pɛ́ppi Dlinnyjčulók |
| العربية | بِيبِي ذَات الجَوْرَب الطَوِيل Bībī ḏāt al-jawrab aṭ-ṭawīl, جِنَان ذَات الجَوْرَب الطَوِيل Jinān ḏāt al-jawrab aṭ-ṭawīl |
| עברית | בִּילְבִּי גֶּרֶב־בֶּרֶךְ Bilbí Gérev-Bérekh, בִּילְבִּי בַּת־גֶּרֶב Bilbí Bat-Gérev, בִּילְבִּי Bilbí, גִּילְגִּי Gilgí |
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title = {Pippi Longstocking},
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