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babber-lipped en · ADJ

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1. Having thick, protruding lips.
   • He danced, mimicked frogs and cows in his songs (I think of Clarence “Frogman” Henry singing “Ain't Got No Home” in 1956), and capped his sly performances as a babber-lipped buffoon by placing billiard balls or a cup and saucer in his mouth (I think of the guy with the balls in his mouth on the cover of the Rolling Stones' Exile on Main St.). 2009, Nick Tosches, Where Dead Voices Gather:
   • Forsooth, Narcissus: by the same token he was turned to a daffodil, and as he died for love of himself, so, if you remember, there was an old ill-favoured, precious-nosed, babber-lipped, beetle-browed, blear-eyed, slouch-eared slave that, looking himself by chance in a glass, died for pure hate. 1607, Simon Waterson,, Lingua: Or, The Combat of the Tongue, and the fiue Senses, for Superiority:
   • You clamber up because you boast a pair of sea-eyes, when any babber-lipped black in the waist must have sighted them the sooner. 1922, Henry Cottrell Rowland, Hirondelle, page 167:

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