| 释义 |
pipy, a.|ˈpaɪpɪ|
(erron. -ey.)
[f. pipe n.1 + -y.]
1. Containing pipes, tubes, or tubular formations; of the form of a pipe, tubular, cylindrical.
1724Switzer Pract. Gard. xi. lxxviii. 406 When once sellery is whitened it must be eaten, otherwise it will soon grow pipey or rot. 1757Ellis in Phil. Trans. L. 193 A white pipy and stony coral. 1818Keats Endym. i. 241 Where dank moisture breeds The pipy hemlock to strange overgrowth. 1851Jrnl. R. Agric. Soc. XII. i. 288 A soft blue ‘pipy’ clay, i.e. containing pipes of red rusty matter. 1869Phillips Vesuv. iv. 121 The crust formed over the lava is remarkably pipy as well as cellular.
2. Piping, shrill. (Cf. pipe n.1 2.)
1877W. S. Gilbert Foggerty's Fairy (1892) 14 ‘Cheer up, Mr. Foggerty’, said a pipy little voice.
3. Given to ‘piping the eye’ or crying. colloq.
1861C. M. Yonge Stokesley Secret xii. (1862) 179 ‘Christabel’, said a little voice,..‘I shall never be pipy again’. |