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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
whippy
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Corporal punishment was used sparingly but consisted of either four strokes or six across the behind with a whippy cane.
▪ Fallen branches littered the rides and new growths of whippy little sapling twigs poked down at head-and-shoulder height to a horseman.
Wiktionary
whippy

a. whiplike; thin and pliant.

WordNet
whippy

adj. rebounds readily; "clean bouncy hair"; "a lively tennis ball"; "as resiliant as seasoned hickory"; "springy turf" [syn: bouncy, live, lively, resilient, springy]

Usage examples of "whippy".

It would have made just as much sense to fish straight from the winch with the line clothes-pinned onto a whippy outrigger.

Again and yet again, the thin whippy wood sliced down across her poised peaches, each time leaving a faint pink stripe that rapidly deepened to a darker shade of red.

Or approach it, head bowed, to place her forehead down on to the seat thus presenting her already faintly striped buttocks up for more intimacy with the whippy wood?

Susie blinked as the unage of a whippy cane stole into her imagination.

Bucking and writhing in his bondage, he cursed her with a sweet savagery, his words became mere carnal grunts as Susie slid the first inch of the whippy cane in between his cheeks.

Annette strolled blithely along through the sun-dappled greenery, pausing only to behead sowthistles and dandelions, frothy white parsley and docks with the whippy cane she carried.

Svetlana would have to penetrate the files guarded by the little black-stockinged Eve who flexed a whippy crop.

One moment he was trying fruitlessly to sleep on the straw bed the chimaera provided, and the next it was broad daylight and he was looking up at an orange sky with whippy yellow clouds.

Tall, maybe two inches taller than you, and fit, sort of whippy, with curly golden hair and a red-brown beard.

He was pure white, with a fawn-coloured saddle just behind his neck, and a fawn diamond at the root of his thin whippy tail.

Feeding, he fed her so that even as she flew over that first whippy edge, she could crave more.

There was that surge of power again, that odd, whippy sensation that she could do or be anything.

After the first wave of riders came another of those on mules and donkeys moving more slowly but making as much noise and immediately after them came a swarming mob of running, howling foot soldiers, mingled with whom were women and shrieking children, and dozens of yelping dogs, scrawny yellow curs with long whippy tails and ridges of standing hair running down their skeletal backbones.

The rising wind sent the stiff-edged leaves scraping against each other and the long whippy branches they grew on, made the main limbs groan just a little as they shifted under its pressure.

Aleytys plodded along the river bank, tired and depressed, sweating, filthy with ash and dust and debris from the whippy thickets of new growth going gold for the winter.