pippy

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   Full of pips or seeds.

   • 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.
2. 2

   Having "the pip", or malaise

   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.
   • 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.'
3. 3

   Alternative form of pippie (all senses)

   • Perhaps the good professor should add to his files Goolwa cockle: the name, according at least to the fishing books I have perused, the pippy goes under in South Australia.
   • I got it date-stamped at the library desk and put it in my pippy bag and trotted out into the bewildering sunshine.
   • As a child, because the rumpled foreskin on my pippy stuck uncomfortably to the loose skin of my scrotum, I would occasionally be observed trying to separate them through my clothing.

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