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pippies

pippies is the plural of pippie.

pippies is the plural of pippy.

Meaning of pippie

Noun (1)

pippie (plural pippies)

  1. (Australia, New Zealand) A cockle.
    • By the way, the common "pippie” contains it in small amounts, so does shark liver oil, if you like it.1937, New Zealand Dental Journal - Volume 33, page 167

Noun (2)

pippie (plural pippies)

  1. (childish, colloquial) The penis.
    • At thirteen, my own pippie was stirred by the sight of girls in our school.1998, David Medalie, Encounters: an anthology of South African short stories, page 192

Meaning of pippy

Adjective

pippy (comparative more pippy, superlative most pippy)

  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.1859, Charles Dickens, Household Words, volume 19, page 445
  2. (dated, informal) 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.1920, Francis Brett Young, E. Brett Young, Undergrowth, page 45

Questions about pippies

What is pippies the plural of?
Pippies is the plural of pippie.

Words near pippies in the dictionary

  1. Pippi Longstocking
  2. Pippi Longstockings
  3. pippian
  4. pippians
  5. pippie
  6. pippies
  7. pippin
  8. pippin file
  9. pippin files
  10. pipping
  11. pipping at the post

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