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
   • 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.2010, Clarissa Lablache Cheer, Edwardian candlelight: My Childhood Memories, page 179
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
   • 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.'2013, Anthony Fletcher, Life, Death, and Growing Up on the Western Front, page 58