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lippy

adj
/ˈlɪpi/US/ˈlɪpɪ/

Etymology

From lip (“fleshy protrusion around the opening of the mouth; (slang) verbal impertinence, backtalk”) + -y (suffix forming adjectives with the sense of ‘having the quality of’).

  1. borrowed from Lippe

Definitions

  1. Having prominent lips.

    • His eyes were large and prominent, his mouth wide and lippy, and as he bent over his books he emitted sundry low growls and grunts, plainly indicating that his temper was none of the sweetest.

  2. Having a tendency to talk back in a cheeky or impertinent manner.

    • Don't give me any lip! I don't like how lippy you've been acting lately! Clean your room.
    • No, it's [Tamil is] a happy, snappy, lippy, and loping lingo anyone can see just makes these guys happy to speak and hear.
    • I hesitated another moment, then followed her with a vow that I would walk out the instant she got lippy. If she wanted to fire me, fine, I'd go, but I'd be damned if I'd let her lay any crap on me.

  3. Lip gloss or lipstick

    Lip gloss or lipstick; (countable) a stick of this product.

    • Like some kind of masonic handshake, Collie passed Vanya a tube of black lippie. She smeared it carelessly across her wide mouth and handed it to me. My parents would have a hissy fit if they knew I put on lipstick but they weren't around.
    • I'm worried I'm turning into a 1950s housewife: the other day I found myself tidying up the sitting room and putting on some lippie before Tony got home from work!
    • 'Sorry—just trying on new lippies for tonight,' she confessed, flashing a crimson smile.
  4. ›+ 3 more definitions

    1. Diminutive of lip.

      • Those sweet little lippies, like rosebuds at e’en, / Encircle a pipe-stem, impure and unclean?
      • “Make me immortal with a smack on the lippies,” Amos whispered, bending slightly forward, making an enormous kissing sound.

    2. An old dry measure amounting to one quarter of a peck (for goods sold by weight, 1¾…

      An old dry measure amounting to one quarter of a peck (for goods sold by weight, 1¾ pounds or about four-fifths of a kilogram); also, a container of that capacity.

      • I ſowed on this Ground, without any Dung or Manure, a Lippy of Oats, from which I had a Boll wanting a Chopin.
      • [T]he valuation of lands, tenor of leaſes, the rents, the entails, rent charges, life rents, and payments for or out of land revenue, are all reckoned in Scotland by the chalder, boll, firlot, and lippy, and cannot be altered; [...]
      • A miniſter's ſtipend is paid by the heritors as follows: James Speers pays 3 bolls 3 firlots 1 peck 3 lippies oats, 2 bolls barley, and L. 3 : 15 : 4; [...]

    3. A surname from German.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA