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From whip + -y.
whippy (comparative whippier, superlative whippiest)
- Whiplike; thin and pliant.
The tree's whippy branches grazed his face.
2005, Jonathan Falla, Poor Mercy: A Novel, Birlinn, page 195:Two women sat whacking the skins with long whippy sticks, whining a song
- (Scotland) Active, nimble.