Save Gender Feminine Usage Literature Pronounced Pron. pip-i-LAWT-a [key·IPA] Meaning & History Invented by Swedish author Astrid Lindgren for the heroine of her children's novel 'Pippi Långstrump' (1945). It is composed of Swedish pippi, a childish word for "bird", combined with the name Lotta.
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