Whole Pippin
Early-attested site in the Parish of Whicham
Historical Forms
- Whirleppin 1646 LowtherW
- Whirnepepin 1646 PR
- Whinnepepin 1651 ib
- Whirlepippen 1659 ib
- Whorlepepin 1719 ib
Etymology
The second element is English pipkin , of doubtful origin, found in dialect as pippen , pippin , 'a round and deep earthenware pan.' Like Whirlepott (supra 281), the name evidently means a pot-hole in a stream. Cf. a pool in the (East Lothian) Tyne called “Saint Baldred's Whirl” (Ritchie, St Baldred 124). v. EDDs. v. whirl sb.