pipy
adjEtymology From pipe + -y.
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Resembling or characteristic of a pipe.
- In desolate places where dank moisture breeds / The pipy Hemlock to strange overgrowth1818, John Keats, “Book I”, in Endymion: A Poetic Romance, London: […] T[homas] Miller, […] for Taylor and Hessey, […], →OCLC, page 14, line 241:
- The hook had fouled among a bunch of strawberries, red on one side and white on the other—perfect reproductions of the land fruit, except that there were no leaves, and the stem was all pipy and slimy.1897, Rudyard Kipling, Captains Courageous:
- Derived terms
- pipiness