lippy
Meanings
adj
- Having prominent lips.
- Having a tendency to talk back in a cheeky or impertinent manner.
noun
- Lip gloss or lipstick; (countable) a stick of this product.
noun
- Diminutive of lip.
noun
- 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.
name
- A surname from German.
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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’).
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