pulpyadj.

Brit.

/ˈpʌlpi/, U.S.

/ˈpəlpi/

Forms: 1500s pulpie, 1600s poulpie, 1600s– pulpy.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: pulp n., -y suffix¹.

Etymology: < pulp n. + -y suffix¹. With sense 2 compare later pulp n. 4d.

1. Of the nature of, consisting of, or resembling pulp; soft; fleshy, succulent. Also figurative: flabby, lacking strength or form.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > constitution of matter > softness > types of softness > [adjective] > pulpy

mashy1585

pulpy1587

pulpous1601

fleshly1657

pultaceous1668

mushy1768

pulpose1858

pobby1937

squidgy1973

1587 T. Newton tr. L. Lemnius Herbal for Bible xlviii. 233 The fruit of the Peach is round, pulpie, succulent, sauourie, well relished, winish-tasted,..and within a hard rugged nut.

1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. i. iii. 103 Long'st thou for Butter? bite the poulpie part [of coco; Fr. le mol de sa chair], And neuer better came to any Mart.

1694 J. Ray in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eminent Lit. Men (1843) 200 The hard-bill'd [birds] touch not pulpy fruits.

1729 J. Martyn 1st Lect. Bot. 20 A..Berry, Bacca , to be a small pulpy Vessel, containing one or more Seeds.

1799 R. Kirwan Geol. Ess. 330 Moist, pulpy, incoherent, argillaceous masses.

1800 tr. E. J. B. Bouillon-Lagrange Man. Course Chem. II. 417 The pulpy matter of the brain.

1843 T. Carlyle Past & Present ii. xvii. 172 Some score or two of years ago, all these were little red-coloured pulpy infants.

1863 ‘G. Eliot’ Romola II. xix. 222 His mind was perhaps a little pulpy from that too exclusive diet.

1905 J. H. McCarthy Dryad 263 To make its way through ground as muddy and pulpy as a swamp.

1924 Amer. Mercury Nov. 260/1 A civilization organized upon this absence of responsibility is pulpy and unsound.

1948 H. Brean Wilders walk Away viii. 91 Beside each lay a long flintlock musket, the barrels red with rust, the wooden stocks pulpy and swollen with rot.

1996 Good Food Easter 106/1 Using a pestle and mortar, crush the garlic and a little salt until pulpy.

2. Of, relating to, or characteristic of pulp literature or pulp entertainment; of poor quality; popular, sensationalist, ephemeral. See pulp n. 4d.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > literature > [adjective] > specific types of literature > inferior

weak1713

subliterary1848

pulpy1915

schlock1916

society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > vigour or force > [adjective] > sensational

sensationary1755

lurid1850

sensational1859

sensationist1859

sensationalist1862

sensationalistic1863

yellow book1895

pulpy1915

1915 Amer. Jrnl. Sociol. 21 154 There is an immense circulation of worthless reading matter, ranging from dream-books and drugstore almanacs to pulpy fiction.

1939 R. Chandler Let. 19 Feb. (1966) 195 The Big Sleep is very unequally written. There are scenes that are all right, but there are other scenes still much too pulpy.

1978 Nature 27 Apr. 786/1 Even the pulpiest science fiction includes this.

1989 R. Tong Feminist Thought iv. 113 Pulpy romance novels, which tell stories of thinly disguised male domination and female submission.

2004 P. Biskind Down & Dirty Pictures ii. 77 Redford's distaste for the pulpy, tabloid underbelly of mass culture was probably a function of his own insecurities.

Compounds

pulpy kidney n. Veterinary Medicine (more fully pulpy kidney disease) clostridial infection (enterotoxaemia) of sheep, in which there is rapid post-mortem degeneration of the kidneys.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > ill health > animal disease or disorder > disorders of sheep > [noun] > other disorders of sheep

pocka1325

soughta1400

pox1530

mad1573

winter rot1577

snuffa1585

leaf1587

leaf-sickness1614

redwater1614

mentigo1706

tag1736

white water1743

hog pox1749

rickets1755

side-ill1776

resp1789

sheep-fag1789

thorter-ill1791

vanquish1792

smallpox1793

shell-sicknessc1794

sickness1794

grass-ill1795

rub1800

pine1804

pining1804

sheep-pock1804

stinking ill1807

water sickness1807

core1818

wryneck1819

tag-belt1826

tag-sore1828

kibe1830

agalaxia1894

agalactia1897

lupinosis1899

trembling1902

struck1903

black disease1906

scrapie1910

renguerra1917

pulpy kidney1927

dopiness1932

blowfly strike1933

body strike1934

sleepy sickness1937

swayback1938

twin lamb disease1945

tick pyaemia1946

fly-strike1950

maedi1952

nematodiriasis1957

visna1957

maedi-visna1972

visna-maedi1972

1927 N.Z. Jrnl. Agric. 34 217 (heading) ‘Pulpy kidney’ disease of lambs.

1953 Cape Argus 21 Mar. 7/3 Pulpy kidney disease is taking a heavy toll among sheep in the Lady Grey district.

1965 in P. Jennings Living Village (1968) 69 Those remaining are injected for Pulpy Kidney, as a very good lamb has died suddenly.

1993 Gardening Austral. (Sydney) May 94/1 I was assisting a Mallee farmer injecting his lambing ewes against pulpy kidney, which is a condition brought on by high twin-lambing flocks.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	pulpy
释义	pulpyadj. Brit. /ˈpʌlpi/, U.S. /ˈpəlpi/ Forms: 1500s pulpie, 1600s poulpie, 1600s– pulpy. Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: pulp n., -y suffix¹. Etymology: < pulp n. + -y suffix¹. With sense 2 compare later pulp n. 4d. 1. Of the nature of, consisting of, or resembling pulp; soft; fleshy, succulent. Also figurative: flabby, lacking strength or form. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > constitution of matter > softness > types of softness > [adjective] > pulpy mashy1585 pulpy1587 pulpous1601 fleshly1657 pultaceous1668 mushy1768 pulpose1858 pobby1937 squidgy1973 1587 T. Newton tr. L. Lemnius Herbal for Bible xlviii. 233 The fruit of the Peach is round, pulpie, succulent, sauourie, well relished, winish-tasted,..and within a hard rugged nut. 1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. i. iii. 103 Long'st thou for Butter? bite the poulpie part [of coco; Fr. le mol de sa chair], And neuer better came to any Mart. 1694 J. Ray in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eminent Lit. Men (1843) 200 The hard-bill'd [birds] touch not pulpy fruits. 1729 J. Martyn 1st Lect. Bot. 20 A..Berry, Bacca , to be a small pulpy Vessel, containing one or more Seeds. 1799 R. Kirwan Geol. Ess. 330 Moist, pulpy, incoherent, argillaceous masses. 1800 tr. E. J. B. Bouillon-Lagrange Man. Course Chem. II. 417 The pulpy matter of the brain. 1843 T. Carlyle Past & Present ii. xvii. 172 Some score or two of years ago, all these were little red-coloured pulpy infants. 1863 ‘G. Eliot’ Romola II. xix. 222 His mind was perhaps a little pulpy from that too exclusive diet. 1905 J. H. McCarthy Dryad 263 To make its way through ground as muddy and pulpy as a swamp. 1924 Amer. Mercury Nov. 260/1 A civilization organized upon this absence of responsibility is pulpy and unsound. 1948 H. Brean Wilders walk Away viii. 91 Beside each lay a long flintlock musket, the barrels red with rust, the wooden stocks pulpy and swollen with rot. 1996 Good Food Easter 106/1 Using a pestle and mortar, crush the garlic and a little salt until pulpy. 2. Of, relating to, or characteristic of pulp literature or pulp entertainment; of poor quality; popular, sensationalist, ephemeral. See pulp n. 4d. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > [adjective] > specific types of literature > inferior weak1713 subliterary1848 pulpy1915 schlock1916 society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > vigour or force > [adjective] > sensational sensationary1755 lurid1850 sensational1859 sensationist1859 sensationalist1862 sensationalistic1863 yellow book1895 pulpy1915 1915 Amer. Jrnl. Sociol. 21 154 There is an immense circulation of worthless reading matter, ranging from dream-books and drugstore almanacs to pulpy fiction. 1939 R. Chandler Let. 19 Feb. (1966) 195 The Big Sleep is very unequally written. There are scenes that are all right, but there are other scenes still much too pulpy. 1978 Nature 27 Apr. 786/1 Even the pulpiest science fiction includes this. 1989 R. Tong Feminist Thought iv. 113 Pulpy romance novels, which tell stories of thinly disguised male domination and female submission. 2004 P. Biskind Down & Dirty Pictures ii. 77 Redford's distaste for the pulpy, tabloid underbelly of mass culture was probably a function of his own insecurities. Compounds pulpy kidney n. Veterinary Medicine (more fully pulpy kidney disease) clostridial infection (enterotoxaemia) of sheep, in which there is rapid post-mortem degeneration of the kidneys. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > animal disease or disorder > disorders of sheep > [noun] > other disorders of sheep pocka1325 soughta1400 pox1530 mad1573 winter rot1577 snuffa1585 leaf1587 leaf-sickness1614 redwater1614 mentigo1706 tag1736 white water1743 hog pox1749 rickets1755 side-ill1776 resp1789 sheep-fag1789 thorter-ill1791 vanquish1792 smallpox1793 shell-sicknessc1794 sickness1794 grass-ill1795 rub1800 pine1804 pining1804 sheep-pock1804 stinking ill1807 water sickness1807 core1818 wryneck1819 tag-belt1826 tag-sore1828 kibe1830 agalaxia1894 agalactia1897 lupinosis1899 trembling1902 struck1903 black disease1906 scrapie1910 renguerra1917 pulpy kidney1927 dopiness1932 blowfly strike1933 body strike1934 sleepy sickness1937 swayback1938 twin lamb disease1945 tick pyaemia1946 fly-strike1950 maedi1952 nematodiriasis1957 visna1957 maedi-visna1972 visna-maedi1972 1927 N.Z. Jrnl. Agric. 34 217 (heading) ‘Pulpy kidney’ disease of lambs. 1953 Cape Argus 21 Mar. 7/3 Pulpy kidney disease is taking a heavy toll among sheep in the Lady Grey district. 1965 in P. Jennings Living Village (1968) 69 Those remaining are injected for Pulpy Kidney, as a very good lamb has died suddenly. 1993 Gardening Austral. (Sydney) May 94/1 I was assisting a Mallee farmer injecting his lambing ewes against pulpy kidney, which is a condition brought on by high twin-lambing flocks. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1587
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