单词 | pipy |
释义 | pipyadj.1 Shaped like a pipe, tubular. Also: containing pipes or tubes. ΘΚΠ the world > space > shape > curvature > curved three-dimensional shape or body > cylinder > [adjective] > of hollow cylindrical form cannulate?a1425 fistulose?1440 pipedc1520 pipe-like1600 fistulous1601 tubulous1664 tubulary1673 tubular1682 cannulated1684 cannular1698 tubulated1713 tunnelled1713 tubulose1714 pipy1724 tubal1735 tubiform1745 tubulate1753 tube-shaped1760 tubuliform1794 fistuliform1805 tubular-shaped1815 tubed1816 canaliform1826 tunnel-shaped1826 tube-like1849 tunnelly1874 tunnel-like1880 tubar1887 1724 S. Switzer et al. Pract. Fruit-gardener xi. lxxviii. 406 When once sellery is whitened it must be eaten, otherwise it will soon grow pipey or rot. 1758 Philos. Trans. 1757 (Royal Soc.) 50 193 A white pipy and stony coral. 1818 J. Keats Endymion i. 14 Where dank moisture breeds The pipy hemlock to strange overgrowth. 1869 J. Phillips Vesuvius iv. 121 The crust formed over the lava is remarkably pipy as well as cellular. 1933 C. A. Smith Light from Beyond in Lost Worlds (1944) 379 It seemed that the pipy arms of these creatures were far stronger than one would have imagined. 2003 Record (Bergen County, New Jersey) (Nexis) 18 May f1 You just turn that thing in the basement. The metal wheelie thing that's attached to the long pipey thing? This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). pipyadj.2 1. Piping, shrill. Cf. pipe v.1 5. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > voice or vocal sound > quality of voice > [adjective] > shrill or forced shrillc1386 shirl1418 straineda1542 treble1550 efforced1590 shrilly1594 minikin1602 stridulous1646 feigned1664 extended1699 pipy1769 falsetto1826 screechy1834 stridulent1874 roofy1897 taut1916 1769 T. Twining Let. 20 Feb. (1991) I. 70 The tone..of a castrato..he [sc. Rousseau] thought to have something squally & pipy & spewy & queer in it. 1859 Chambers's Jrnl. 25 June 408/2 The words in which my reply was couched came forth in my pipy, shaky voice, in a phrase of the metropolitan gamin. 1890 W. S. Gilbert Foggerty's Fairy & Other Tales 14 ‘Cheer up, Mr. Foggerty,’ said a pipy little voice. 1950 I. Kolodin New Guide to Recorded Music 12 The pipy sound of the organ used by Biggs is unpleasant at this pace. 1998 Record Collector Apr. 71/4 Fairly twee pipey computer instrumentation with a teenage-angst lyric. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > suffering > sorrow or grief > lamentation or expression of grief > weeping > [adjective] weepingc900 wopi?c1225 greetingfula1340 greetyc1350 weeplyc1374 weepfula1382 weepinglyc1440 lachrymablec1450 moistc1450 lachrymous1490 rainy1563 tearfula1586 greeting1588 collachrymate1593 crying1594 onion-eyeda1616 maudlinc1616 rheumatica1627 fluxed1628 lachrymalc1630 crystal-droppinga1650 showery1654 lugent1656 Niobean1665 lachrymary1693 lachrymose1727 moist-eyed1797 larmoyant1824 pluviose1824 ploratory1831 lachrymating1837 screwmatic1847 pipy1861 weepy1863 blarting1898 leaky1905 1861 C. M. Yonge Stokesley Secret xii. 179 ‘Christabel,’ said a little voice,..‘I shall never be pipy again.’ This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.11724adj.21769 |
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