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whippy

whippy adjective: whiplike; thin and pliant.

Adjective

whippy (comparative whippier, superlative whippiest)

  1. Whiplike; thin and pliant.
    • The tree's whippy branches grazed his face.
    • Two women sat whacking the skins with long whippy sticks, whining a song2005, Jonathan Falla, Poor Mercy: A Novel, Birlinn, page 195
  2. (Scotland) Active, nimble.
  3. Being or having a texture similar to a whipped substance.

Forms of whippy

comparativewhippier
superlativewhippiest

Origin of whippy

From whip + -y.

Words formed from whippy

Words that rhyme with whippy

10 more rhymesFewer rhymes

Questions about whippy

What does whippy mean?
Whippy means whiplike; thin and pliant.
What part of speech is whippy?
Whippy is an adjective.

Words near whippy in the dictionary

  1. whippos
  2. whippowill
  3. whippowills
  4. Whipps
  5. Whippses
  6. whippy
  7. whipray
  8. whiprays
  9. whipround
  10. whiprounds
  11. whips

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