Like A Chicken With The Pip Meaning

(dated, idiomatic) In a weakened, confused, or sickly manner.

Example: 1899, Frank Norris, Blix, ch. 4 :
  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.
1907, "Stewart Edward White, Arizona Nights, ch. 15:
  He seemed plumb possessed of gloom, and moped around like a chicken with the pip.
1914, Peter B. Kyne, The Long Chance, ch. 6:
  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.