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In some senses, pippy is marked as dated, informal. Watch for register when choosing this word.
pippy
adj 2noun 1
Collocations
5ADJ.
behind, dark, huge, red, sweet, under
VERB + PIPPY
perused, red-cored
PIPPY + NOUN
bag, fruit
PREP.
in, in, on
ADV.
uncomfortably
Definitions
adj
1
Full of pips or seeds.
The pomegranate salads of Spain I did not taste, and much do I regret it; but I must say that, though the red-cored pippy fruit may throw a pleasant acid halo about the shred lettuce luminous with golden oil, the fruit itself is a most ugly and disappointing thing in real life.
The tomato hurtling from my hand hit a Bonzo Pup calendar hanging on the wall behind the now vanished head. The picture was obliterated behind a huge pippy red splash.
2
Having "the pip", or malaise; depressed.
"You ain't half as pippy as Mr. Carlyon was sometimes. It'll be all the same in a hundred years. Got a match?” Forsyth found no consolation in the fact that Carlyon was pippy.
He could not bring himself to post his wife an unhappy letter he had written: 'I'm such a pippy miserable blighter that it would be a sin to convey it to you and just when you will want bracing up.'
noun
1
Alternative form of pippie (all senses)
Perhaps the good professor should add to his files Goolwa cockle: the name, according at least to the fishing books I have perused, the pippy goes under in South Australia.
I got it date-stamped at the library desk and put it in my pippy bag and trotted out into the bewildering sunshine.
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The pomegranate salads of Spain I did not taste, and much do I regret it; but I must say that, though the red-cored pippy fruit may throw a pleasant acid halo about the shred lettuce luminous with gol
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The tomato hurtling from my hand hit a Bonzo Pup calendar hanging on the wall behind the now vanished head. The picture was obliterated behind a huge pippy red splash.
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And if Blai, who had gone down the brookside with a withy basket, came back in time, maybe his mother would have made some of the sweet, dark, pippy mess that she brewed with blackberries and honey to
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Perhaps the good professor should add to his files Goolwa cockle: the name, according at least to the fishing books I have perused, the pippy goes under in South Australia.
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I got it date-stamped at the library desk and put it in my pippy bag and trotted out into the bewildering sunshine.
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As a child, because the rumpled foreskin on my pippy stuck uncomfortably to the loose skin of my scrotum, I would occasionally be observed trying to separate them through my clothing.
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