Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Resembling a pipe; formed like a tube; tubular; hollow-stemmed.
- Inclined to pipe or wrinkle on the grain. See
pipe , intransitive verb, 6.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Like a pipe; hollow-stemmed.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Like a
pipe ; having ahollow stem .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Celery will be rank and pipy, or hollow, and will not keep nearly so long or so well.
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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.
Captains Courageous Rudyard Kipling 1900
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He plied me with questions, amid suggestions about you, till I was within a trifle of putting 'my finger in the pipy o' 'im.'
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There was Ophelia, and there was Wilfred in Rokeby -- only she was a woman, and he was pipy.
The Pillars of the House, V1 Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862
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(want to have wadding or something in his no don't she cried), then all of a soft sudden wee little wee little pipy wind.
Ulysses James Joyce 1911
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Growl angry, then shriek cursing (want to have wadding or something in his no don’t she cried), then all of a soft sudden wee little wee little pipy wind.
Ulysses 2003
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a small, thready, pipy tone, as though the birds who uttered the cry had had their voices split up into two or three pieces.
Featherland How the Birds lived at Greenlawn George Manville Fenn 1870
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a crowd of pipy fragrance involves the room: these ærial forms cease to be visible; and broken sounds, like the retiring tide beneath Dover cliff, die away into utter silence.
Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance Thomas Frognall Dibdin 1811
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