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pipy

pipy adjective: resembling or characteristic of a pipe.

Adjective

pipy (comparative more pipy, superlative most pipy)

  1. 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

Forms of pipy

comparativemore pipy
superlativemost pipy
alternative formpipey

Origin of pipy

From pipe + -y.

Words formed from pipy

Questions about pipy

What does pipy mean?
Pipy means resembling or characteristic of a pipe.
What part of speech is pipy?
Pipy is an adjective.

Words near pipy in the dictionary

  1. Pipturus albidus
  2. pipul
  3. pipuls
  4. pipunculid
  5. pipunculids
  6. pipy
  7. pipérade
  8. pipérades
  9. pIqaD
  10. Piqua
  11. piquance

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