Skip to content

pépin

pip

noun peh-PAN Rare
Food & Drink Ingredients

Also means

snag, hitch

Usage Note

Pépin has two common meanings: the seed or pip of a fruit (apple, grape), and informally a problem or snag (avoir un pépin = 'to have a hitch'). The seedless variety of fruit is called sans pépins. In everyday speech the informal sense ('un petit pépin') is very frequent — more so than the literal botanical sense.

Examples

"Il y a un petit pépin avec la voiture."

Natural Translation

There's a small problem with the car.

Explore French by topic