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8 total sentences available.
The pomegranate salads of Spain I did not taste, and much do I regret it; but I must say that, though the red-cored pippy fruit may throw a pleasant acid halo about the shred lettuce luminous with golden oil, the fruit itself is a most ugly and disappointing thing in real life.
Source: wiktionary
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.
Source: wiktionary
And if Blai, who had gone down the brookside with a withy basket, came back in time, maybe his mother would have made some of the sweet, dark, pippy mess that she brewed with blackberries and honey to spread on barley cakes; but more likely that would be tomorrow.
Source: wiktionary
"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.
Source: wiktionary
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Closest matches include pacifier.
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