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lip en · NOUN

Pronunciation

  • lĭp (General-American, Received-Pronunciation)
  • /lɪp/ (General-American, Received-Pronunciation)
  • (General-American) audio

Etymology

From Middle English lippe, from Old English lippa, lippe (“lip”), from Proto-West Germanic *lippjō (“lip”), from Proto-Germanic *lepô, from Proto-Indo-European *leb- (“to hang loosely, droop, sag”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Lippe (“lip”), West Frisian lippe (“lip”), Dutch lip (“lip”), German Lippe and Lefze (“lip”), Low German Lippe (“lip”), Luxembourgish Lëps (“lip”), Vilamovian łyp (“lip”), Yiddish ליפּ (lip, “lip”), Danish læbe (“lip”), Norwegian Bokmål leppe (“lip”), Norwegian Nynorsk leppa, leppe, lippa, lippe (“lip”), Swedish läpp (“lip”), Latin labium (“lip”).

Meanings

  1. (countable) Either of the two fleshy protrusions around the opening of the mouth.
    • […]thine owne lippes teſtifie againſt thee. 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Job 15:6, column 1:
  2. (countable) A part of the body that resembles a lip, such as the edge of a wound or the labia.
    • […]I twiſted my thighs, ſqueezed, and compreſs’d the lips of that virgin-ſlit[…] 1749, [John Cleland], “[Letter the First]”, in Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure [Fanny Hill], volume I, London: […] [Thomas Parker] for G. Fenton [i.e., Fenton and Ralph Griffiths] […], →OCLC, pages 67–68:
  3. (broadly, countable) The projecting rim of an open container or a bell, etc.; a short open spout.
    • The cork sails over the garden wall and lands somewhere no one can see it. A crest of white spills over the lip of the bottle and Niall pours the wine into Elaine's glass. 2018, Sally Rooney, “Six Months Later (July 2013)”, in Normal People:
  4. (slang, uncountable) Backtalk; verbal impertinence.
    • Kevin Sutherland: I've had enough of your lip! 2008 May 1, Damon Beesley, Iain Morris, The Inbetweeners, I:ii: “Bunk Off”,:
    • Don’t give me any lip!
    • Loose Tomato grew up tough. No one ever suspected that he was scared every time he walked down the street. Any lip and they got their ass kicked. 1977, Larry Mitchell, The Faggots & Their Friends Between Revolutions, Calamus Books; republished New York: Nightboat Books, 2020, →ISBN, page 97:
  5. (countable, uncountable) The edge of a high spot of land.
    • They toiled forward along a tiny path on the river’s lip. Suddenly it vanished. The bank was sheer red solid clay in front of them, sloping straight into the river. 1913, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, “Passion”, in Sons and Lovers, London: Duckworth & Co. […], →OCLC, part II, page 311:
    • Looking to the east we could see Api and the mountains of west Nepal, shapely snow peaks in the distance, while in the immediate foreground, much lower but still dramatic, were the peaks of Panch Chuli IV and V (III was hidden by the lip of a huge cornice), Telkot and Nagling, all of them unclimbed, all steep and challenging. 1999, Harish Kapadia, “Ascents in the Panch Chuli Group”, in Across Peaks & Passes in Kumaun Himalaya, New Delhi: Indus Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 136:
    • We landed at the head of Garden Island, which is situated near the middle of the river and on the lip of the Falls. On reaching that lip, and peering over the giddy height, the wondrous and unique character of the magnificent cascade at once burst upon us. 1894, David Livingstone, “Chapter VII”, in A Popular Account of Dr Livingstone's Expedition to the Zambesi and its Tributaries:
  6. (countable, uncountable) The sharp cutting edge on the end of an auger.
  7. (countable, uncountable) One of the two opposite divisions of a labiate corolla.
  8. (countable, uncountable) A distinctive lower-appearing of the three true petals of an orchid.
  9. (countable, uncountable) One of the edges of the aperture of a univalve shell.
  10. (colloquial, countable, uncountable) Embouchure: the condition or strength of a wind instrumentalist's lips.
  11. (abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, colloquial, countable, uncountable) Clipping of lipstick.
    alt of lipstick
    • I put on some red lip and a casual print dress.

Forms

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Deriveds

lip wisdom · lipread · bite one's lip · lip plate · on everybody's lips · cleft lip · make a lip · zip up one's lip · Austrian lip · boot lip · hang one's lip · lip devotion · lip-synch · lip-labour · lipslide · button one's lip · lipping · lip flip · zip one's lip · pack a lip · love lips · there's many a slip between the cup and the lip · cunt lips · blacklip · there's many a slip twixt cup and lip · lip disk · flap one's lips · lipless · lip bit · overlip · read lips · liplet · give lip · lipline · lip lock · pseudolip · lip off · lippy · lip pillow · shoot from the lip · liplock · lip plug · lipreader · lip homage · lip-synching · goldlip · lip clap · vagina lips · loose lips sink ships · hare lip · walk on one's lower lip · lower lip · lip-syncing · lip bear · lip religion · Habsburg lip · lip salve · lip wrestle · lip-service · lipreading · lip-deep · lip language · lip-reader · underlip · lip balm · lipped · fat lip · loose lip · lip job · lip-sync · lippage · stiff upper lip · lick one's lips · lip reading · lip flap · chessel · monkey lip · lip-server · bushlip · lipstick · lip disc · liplike · lip-ribbon · lip-syncer · netherlip · lip out · lip cell · one's lips are sealed · bootlip · there's many a slip twixt the cup and the lip · black lip · harelip · lip liner · whitelip · keep one's lips sealed · upper lip · lip sync · lip-pierced · lipcoat · tight-lipped · lipwork · lip service · lip fern · lip gloss · thick lip · lipprint · button up one's lip · lip-smacking · zip the lip · blubber-lip · lip comfort · on everyone's lips · gold lip · lip dub · read someone's lips · lip-lock · lipliner · lip-locked · lip-reading · your lips to God's ears · lip-smackingly · other lips · lip-strap · monkey lips · three-lips · lipcurl · lip color · lock lips · lip duo · V-lip redhorse · lip seal · lippies · lip-read · thicklips

Meronyms

philtrum (fleshy protrusion) · Cupid's bow (fleshy protrusion) · commissure (fleshy protrusion) · vermilion (fleshy protrusion)

Synonyms

rim · spout · impudence · backchat · labium · cheek · rudeness · edge · insolence · labium

Translations (339)

pdc Lipp (fleshy protrusion framing the mouth) · es bezo (fleshy protrusion framing the mouth) · zdj ɗomo (fleshy protrusion framing the mouth) · el χείλος (rim of an open container) · cop ⲥⲡⲁⲧⲟⲩ (fleshy protrusion framing the mouth) · fo vørr (fleshy protrusion framing the mouth) · hy շուրթ (fleshy protrusion framing the mouth) · bg наха́лство (slang: backtalk, verbal impertinence) · mi ngutu (rim of an open container) · ar شَفَة (fleshy protrusion framing the mouth) · pa ہونْٹھ (fleshy protrusion framing the mouth) · scn labbru (fleshy protrusion framing the mouth) · uk губа́ (fleshy protrusion framing the mouth) · cu оуста (fleshy protrusion framing the mouth) · pt beiço (fleshy protrusion framing the mouth) · kqr motoburui munung (fleshy protrusion framing the mouth) · tg лаб (fleshy protrusion framing the mouth) · ill mudul (fleshy protrusion framing the mouth) · ru наха́льство (slang: backtalk, verbal impertinence) · sat ᱞᱩᱴᱤ (fleshy protrusion framing the mouth) · pam balungus (fleshy protrusion framing the mouth) · rm leavz (fleshy protrusion framing the mouth) · wal menttershshaa (fleshy protrusion framing the mouth) · ceb wait (rim of an open container) · ne ओठ (fleshy protrusion framing the mouth) · gu હોઠ (fleshy protrusion framing the mouth) · or ଓଠ (fleshy protrusion framing the mouth) · amf aapó qúuro (fleshy protrusion framing the mouth) · ccc c̈hiila (fleshy protrusion framing the mouth) · wuu 嘴脣皮 /嘴唇皮 (fleshy protrusion framing the mouth) · zza lew (diq) (fleshy protrusion framing the mouth) · es bezo (part of body resembling a lip) · cu гѫба (fleshy protrusion framing the mouth) · gez ከንፈር (fleshy protrusion framing the mouth) · fi huuli (fleshy protrusion framing the mouth) · ude хэму (fleshy protrusion framing the mouth) · mbb bivig (fleshy protrusion framing the mouth) · ckb لێو (fleshy protrusion framing the mouth) · ru губа́ (fleshy protrusion framing the mouth) · fr lèvre (part of body resembling a lip) · sms põõus (fleshy protrusion framing the mouth) · as ওঁঠ (fleshy protrusion framing the mouth) · ta இதழ் (part of body resembling a lip) · nds Lipp (fleshy protrusion framing the mouth) · io labio (fleshy protrusion framing the mouth) · ro buză (fleshy protrusion framing the mouth) · ceb ngabil (rim of an open container) · za naengbak (fleshy protrusion framing the mouth) · tih bibil (fleshy protrusion framing the mouth) · mfe lalev (fleshy protrusion framing the mouth) · pdt Lepp (fleshy protrusion framing the mouth) · bn ঠোঁট (fleshy protrusion framing the mouth) · zh 嘴脣 /嘴唇 (fleshy protrusion framing the mouth) · ht lèv (fleshy protrusion framing the mouth) · nl lip (fleshy protrusion framing the mouth) · ee nuyi (fleshy protrusion framing the mouth) · ru на́глость (slang: backtalk, verbal impertinence) · ar شفة (fleshy protrusion framing the mouth) · av кӏветӏ (fleshy protrusion framing the mouth) · mk усна (fleshy protrusion framing the mouth) · de Schnaupe (rim of an open container) · pl brzeg (rim of an open container) · avd لو (fleshy protrusion framing the mouth) · he שָׂפָה (fleshy protrusion framing the mouth) · gld пэмун (fleshy protrusion framing the mouth) · arc ܣܦܬܐ (fleshy protrusion framing the mouth) · mi ngutu (fleshy protrusion framing the mouth) · oac хэму (fleshy protrusion framing the mouth) · dar кӏентӏ (fleshy protrusion framing the mouth) · zh(part of body resembling a lip) · sne bibin (fleshy protrusion framing the mouth) · ta விளிம்பு (rim of an open container) · hak 嘴脣 /嘴唇 (fleshy protrusion framing the mouth) · klj ərin (fleshy protrusion framing the mouth) · cy min (fleshy protrusion framing the mouth) · it beccuccio (rim of an open container) · ur ہونْٹ (fleshy protrusion framing the mouth) · de Auslauf (rim of an open container) · tk leb (fleshy protrusion framing the mouth) · de Unverschämtheit (slang: backtalk, verbal impertinence) · mel bibeh (fleshy protrusion framing the mouth) · tk erin (fleshy protrusion framing the mouth) · cs okraj (rim of an open container) · lt lūpa (fleshy protrusion framing the mouth) · tk dodak (fleshy protrusion framing the mouth) · fi reuna (rim of an open container) · kbd ӏупэ (fleshy protrusion framing the mouth) · da læbe (fleshy protrusion framing the mouth) · fi huuli (part of body resembling a lip) · fa لَب (fleshy protrusion framing the mouth) · lo ຮິມຝີປາກ (fleshy protrusion framing the mouth) · el χείλος (fleshy protrusion framing the mouth) · am ከንፈር (fleshy protrusion framing the mouth) · de Überlauf (rim of an open container) · yue 口脣 /口唇 (fleshy protrusion framing the mouth) · rom uśt (fleshy protrusion framing the mouth) · ru губа́ (part of body resembling a lip) · gug tembe (fleshy protrusion framing the mouth) · wo tuñ (fleshy protrusion framing the mouth) · es buz (fleshy protrusion framing the mouth) · os был (fleshy protrusion framing the mouth) · ur لَب (fleshy protrusion framing the mouth) · sjd пэфс (fleshy protrusion framing the mouth) · wyi wurrung (fleshy protrusion framing the mouth) · ota لب (fleshy protrusion framing the mouth) · vi môi (fleshy protrusion framing the mouth) · mww di ncauj (fleshy protrusion framing the mouth) · mt xoffa (fleshy protrusion framing the mouth) · bug wiwe (fleshy protrusion framing the mouth) · th ริมฝีปาก (fleshy protrusion framing the mouth) · lij labro (fleshy protrusion framing the mouth) · ulc пэму (fleshy protrusion framing the mouth) · rgn làbar (fleshy protrusion framing the mouth) · rsk ґамба (fleshy protrusion framing the mouth) · pl warga (fleshy protrusion framing the mouth) · kea bexu (fleshy protrusion framing the mouth) · rhg uñth (fleshy protrusion framing the mouth) · ady ӏупэ (fleshy protrusion framing the mouth) · es bembe (fleshy protrusion framing the mouth) · uga 𐎌𐎔𐎚 (fleshy protrusion framing the mouth) · gl lipe (fleshy protrusion framing the mouth) · zh зуйчур (fleshy protrusion framing the mouth) · tt ирен (fleshy protrusion framing the mouth) · mnp 喙皮 (fleshy protrusion framing the mouth) · mi ngutu (part of body resembling a lip) · ang lippa (fleshy protrusion framing the mouth) · ps شنډه (fleshy protrusion framing the mouth) · sga bus (fleshy protrusion framing the mouth) · nl tegenspraak (slang: backtalk, verbal impertinence) · ota شفه (fleshy protrusion framing the mouth) · ky эрин (fleshy protrusion framing the mouth) · got 𐍅𐌰𐌹𐍂𐌹𐌻𐍉 (fleshy protrusion framing the mouth) · mic nsi (fleshy protrusion framing the mouth) · es labro (fleshy protrusion framing the mouth) · zh зуйчунзы (fleshy protrusion framing the mouth) · az dodaq (fleshy protrusion framing the mouth) · es morro (fleshy protrusion framing the mouth) · mn ᠤᠷᠤᠭᠤᠯ (fleshy protrusion framing the mouth) · lv lūpa (fleshy protrusion framing the mouth) · agj ከንፈር (fleshy protrusion framing the mouth) · zku taaminu (fleshy protrusion framing the mouth) · mn уруул (fleshy protrusion framing the mouth) · es belfo (fleshy protrusion framing the mouth) · my နှုတ်ခမ်း (fleshy protrusion framing the mouth) · lb Lëps (fleshy protrusion framing the mouth) · tuw-sol emme (fleshy protrusion framing the mouth) · srn mofobuba (fleshy protrusion framing the mouth) · smn poovsâ (fleshy protrusion framing the mouth) · rm lef (fleshy protrusion framing the mouth) · wuu 嘴脣 /嘴唇 (fleshy protrusion framing the mouth) · taa -dobona (fleshy protrusion framing the mouth) · clt pakaa (fleshy protrusion framing the mouth) · ml ചുണ്ട് (fleshy protrusion framing the mouth) · eo lipo (fleshy protrusion framing the mouth) · akl bibig (fleshy protrusion framing the mouth) · pam balungus (slang: backtalk, verbal impertinence) · nl lip (part of body resembling a lip) · pt lábio (fleshy protrusion framing the mouth) · ka ბაგე (fleshy protrusion framing the mouth) · te పెదవి (fleshy protrusion framing the mouth) · mvv ruvil (fleshy protrusion framing the mouth) · zu udeɓe (fleshy protrusion framing the mouth) · gd iomall (rim of an open container) · uz lab (fleshy protrusion framing the mouth) · ceb waitwait (part of body resembling a lip) · es labio (fleshy protrusion framing the mouth) · sh у̏сна (fleshy protrusion framing the mouth) · ru уста́ (fleshy protrusion framing the mouth) · bg у́стна (fleshy protrusion framing the mouth) · scn mussu (fleshy protrusion framing the mouth) · mnc ᡶᡝᠮᡝᠨ (fleshy protrusion framing the mouth) · ru край (rim of an open container) · de Widerrede (slang: backtalk, verbal impertinence) · mba damulmug (fleshy protrusion framing the mouth) · sib bive (fleshy protrusion framing the mouth) · de Frechheit (slang: backtalk, verbal impertinence) · arc ספתא (fleshy protrusion framing the mouth) · agx кӏентӏв (fleshy protrusion framing the mouth) · gl labio (fleshy protrusion framing the mouth) · grc χεῖλος (fleshy protrusion framing the mouth) · gd bile (fleshy protrusion framing the mouth) · nl grote mond (slang: backtalk, verbal impertinence) · ca llavi (fleshy protrusion framing the mouth) · ab ақьыша (fleshy protrusion framing the mouth) · pa بُلّھ (fleshy protrusion framing the mouth) · rm levz (fleshy protrusion framing the mouth) · gor biihu (fleshy protrusion framing the mouth) · yi ליפּ (fleshy protrusion framing the mouth) · mg molotra (fleshy protrusion framing the mouth) · mzn لمچ (fleshy protrusion framing the mouth) · lmo lavor (fleshy protrusion framing the mouth) · ain papus (fleshy protrusion framing the mouth) · pa ਬੁੱਲ੍ਹ (fleshy protrusion framing the mouth) · hu ajak (fleshy protrusion framing the mouth) · ain patcake (fleshy protrusion framing the mouth) · gl beco (fleshy protrusion framing the mouth) · alt эрин (fleshy protrusion framing the mouth) · cy gwefus (fleshy protrusion framing the mouth) · nv adaaʼ (fleshy protrusion framing the mouth) · se bavssa (fleshy protrusion framing the mouth) · sl ustna (fleshy protrusion framing the mouth) · eve хэмэ̇н (fleshy protrusion framing the mouth) · ln lobebu (fleshy protrusion framing the mouth) · ast llabiu (fleshy protrusion framing the mouth) · ext bezu (fleshy protrusion framing the mouth) · cop ⲥⲫⲟⲧⲟⲩ (fleshy protrusion framing the mouth) · hi लब (fleshy protrusion framing the mouth) · rm leiv (fleshy protrusion framing the mouth) · la labellum (fleshy protrusion framing the mouth) · es befo (fleshy protrusion framing the mouth) · dtr munung (fleshy protrusion framing the mouth) · nl grote bek (slang: backtalk, verbal impertinence) · rif anšuš (fleshy protrusion framing the mouth) · ar شَفَايِف (fleshy protrusion framing the mouth) · ga liopa (fleshy protrusion framing the mouth) · ro buze (fleshy protrusion framing the mouth) · xcl շուրթն (fleshy protrusion framing the mouth) · pdc Lefz (fleshy protrusion framing the mouth) · la labium (fleshy protrusion framing the mouth) · egy s-p:t-D24 (fleshy protrusion framing the mouth) · hy շրթունք (fleshy protrusion framing the mouth) · es labio (part of body resembling a lip) · myv турва (fleshy protrusion framing the mouth) · de Rand (rim of an open container) · kjj тӏал (fleshy protrusion framing the mouth) · ta இதழ் (fleshy protrusion framing the mouth) · si තොල (fleshy protrusion framing the mouth) · ext belfu (fleshy protrusion framing the mouth) · es bembo (fleshy protrusion framing the mouth) · af lip (fleshy protrusion framing the mouth) · kmr lêv (fleshy protrusion framing the mouth) · yue 嘴脣 /嘴唇 (fleshy protrusion framing the mouth) · de Lefze (fleshy protrusion framing the mouth) · nci tēntli (fleshy protrusion framing the mouth) · et huul (fleshy protrusion framing the mouth) · vo lip (fleshy protrusion framing the mouth) · tew sókhowa (fleshy protrusion framing the mouth) · nl lipje (rim of an open container) · hi होंठ (fleshy protrusion framing the mouth) · tl labi (fleshy protrusion framing the mouth) · oaa пэму (fleshy protrusion framing the mouth) · be губа́ (fleshy protrusion framing the mouth) · it labbro (fleshy protrusion framing the mouth) · sk pera (fleshy protrusion framing the mouth) · gdo кӏотӏи (fleshy protrusion framing the mouth) · non vǫrr (fleshy protrusion framing the mouth) · ko 입술 (fleshy protrusion framing the mouth) · xmz wiwi (fleshy protrusion framing the mouth) · aqc кӏветӏ (fleshy protrusion framing the mouth) · el χείλι (fleshy protrusion framing the mouth) · la lābrum (fleshy protrusion framing the mouth) · nb leppe (fleshy protrusion framing the mouth) · km បបូរមាត់ (fleshy protrusion framing the mouth) · cv тута (fleshy protrusion framing the mouth) · anq ən-imun (fleshy protrusion framing the mouth) · kl qarloq (fleshy protrusion framing the mouth) · ain capus (fleshy protrusion framing the mouth) · bsy mumud (fleshy protrusion framing the mouth) · tr dudak (fleshy protrusion framing the mouth) · id bibir (fleshy protrusion framing the mouth) · bal لنٹ (fleshy protrusion framing the mouth) · kw gweus (fleshy protrusion framing the mouth) · arq شارب (fleshy protrusion framing the mouth) · no leppe (part of body resembling a lip) · pa لَبّ (fleshy protrusion framing the mouth) · fa لَب (fleshy protrusion framing the mouth) · cdm नर्पुन् (fleshy protrusion framing the mouth) · sa ओष्ठ (fleshy protrusion framing the mouth) · oc pòt (fleshy protrusion framing the mouth) · ta உதடு (fleshy protrusion framing the mouth) · sv läpp (fleshy protrusion framing the mouth) · la lābrum (rim of an open container) · de Ansatz (rim of an open container) · rif ayenšiš (fleshy protrusion framing the mouth) · dtp munung (fleshy protrusion framing the mouth) · qu wirp'a (fleshy protrusion framing the mouth) · ain patoy (fleshy protrusion framing the mouth) · evn хэмун (fleshy protrusion framing the mouth) · kk ерін (fleshy protrusion framing the mouth) · zh 嘴脣 /嘴唇 (fleshy protrusion framing the mouth) · ms bibir (fleshy protrusion framing the mouth) · de Lippe (fleshy protrusion framing the mouth) · ceb wait (fleshy protrusion framing the mouth) · ar شِفَّة (fleshy protrusion framing the mouth) · gd oir (rim of an open container) · jv lambé (fleshy protrusion framing the mouth) · cop ⲥⲡⲟⲧⲟⲩ (fleshy protrusion framing the mouth) · fi reunus (rim of an open container) · bni lobebu (fleshy protrusion framing the mouth) · om hidhii (fleshy protrusion framing the mouth) · trk-oat طوداق (fleshy protrusion framing the mouth) · gl labre (fleshy protrusion framing the mouth) · wmw mvunyo (fleshy protrusion framing the mouth) · is vör (fleshy protrusion framing the mouth) · sq buzë (fleshy protrusion framing the mouth) · twf łòxóyna (fleshy protrusion framing the mouth) · el χείλος (part of body resembling a lip) · ht pobouch (fleshy protrusion framing the mouth) · rap ŋutu (fleshy protrusion framing the mouth) · rm levza (fleshy protrusion framing the mouth) · de Schnauze (fleshy protrusion framing the mouth) · ceb ngabil (fleshy protrusion framing the mouth) · pms làver (fleshy protrusion framing the mouth) · bdr sedi boa' (fleshy protrusion framing the mouth) · ceb ngabilngabil (part of body resembling a lip) · ja(fleshy protrusion framing the mouth) · sma bangseme (fleshy protrusion framing the mouth) · ug كالپۇك (fleshy protrusion framing the mouth) · drg munung (fleshy protrusion framing the mouth) · fr lèvre (fleshy protrusion framing the mouth) · th โอษฐ์ (fleshy protrusion framing the mouth) · sxr lupihlingusu (fleshy protrusion framing the mouth) · ota طوداق (fleshy protrusion framing the mouth) · es pico (rim of an open container) · eu ezpain (fleshy protrusion framing the mouth) · bh होंठ (fleshy protrusion framing the mouth) · hi ओष्ठ (fleshy protrusion framing the mouth) · de Tülle (rim of an open container) · ga beola (fleshy protrusion framing the mouth) · yai лап (fleshy protrusion framing the mouth) · cs ret (fleshy protrusion framing the mouth) · sl ustnica (fleshy protrusion framing the mouth) · ang weolor (fleshy protrusion framing the mouth) · tab кӏвантӏ (fleshy protrusion framing the mouth) · gl beizo (fleshy protrusion framing the mouth) · sh ȕsna (fleshy protrusion framing the mouth) · gag dudak (fleshy protrusion framing the mouth) · tcy ദുഡി (fleshy protrusion framing the mouth) · xnt mussissttoon (fleshy protrusion framing the mouth) · ig egbugbere onu (fleshy protrusion framing the mouth) · mak bibere (fleshy protrusion framing the mouth) · ug لەۋ (fleshy protrusion framing the mouth) · rm leavza (fleshy protrusion framing the mouth) · syl ꠑꠥꠐ (fleshy protrusion framing the mouth) · ka ტუჩი (fleshy protrusion framing the mouth) · cdo 喙皮 (fleshy protrusion framing the mouth) · ba ирен (fleshy protrusion framing the mouth) · tum mlomo (fleshy protrusion framing the mouth) · de Randabschluss (rim of an open container)

wikidata: Q15173

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lip en · VERB

Pronunciation

  • lĭp (General-American, Received-Pronunciation)
  • /lɪp/ (General-American, Received-Pronunciation)
  • (General-American) audio

Etymology

From Middle English lippe, from Old English lippa, lippe (“lip”), from Proto-West Germanic *lippjō (“lip”), from Proto-Germanic *lepô, from Proto-Indo-European *leb- (“to hang loosely, droop, sag”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Lippe (“lip”), West Frisian lippe (“lip”), Dutch lip (“lip”), German Lippe and Lefze (“lip”), Low German Lippe (“lip”), Luxembourgish Lëps (“lip”), Vilamovian łyp (“lip”), Yiddish ליפּ (lip, “lip”), Danish læbe (“lip”), Norwegian Bokmål leppe (“lip”), Norwegian Nynorsk leppa, leppe, lippa, lippe (“lip”), Swedish läpp (“lip”), Latin labium (“lip”).

Meanings

  1. (transitive) To touch or grasp with the lips; to kiss; to lap the lips against (something).
    • Once […] at dawn, I heard a bull-moose lipping tree-buds, and lay still in my blanket while the huge beast wandered past, crack! crash! and slop! slop!through the creek […] 1901, Robert W. Chambers, chapter 9, in Cardigan, New York: Harper, published 1902, page 130:
    • Our love was like the bright snow-flakes, Which melt before you pass, Or the bubble on the wine which breaks Before you lip the glass; 1826 March, Winthrop Mackworth Praed, “Josephine”, in The New Monthly Magazine, volume 16, number 63, page 308:
    • […] a hand that Kings / Haue lipt, and trembled kiſſing. c. 1606–1607 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Anthonie and Cleopatra”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene v], page 348, column 1:
    • […] in a quick swirl the trout lipped a fly beneath the surface with that sort of gigantic delicacy of an elephant picking up a peanut. 1929, William Faulkner, “June Second 1910”, in The Sound and the Fury, New York: Vintage, published 1956, page 144:
  2. (figuratively, of an object, transitive) To touch lightly.
    • He moved the boat onward very slowly, lipping the glossy surface delicately with the light oars. 1971, Iris Murdoch, An Accidental Man, New York: Viking, page 405:
  3. (intransitive, transitive) To wash against a surface, lap.
    • The mist that lipped against the wall behind him hung overhead like a ceiling, hiding any stars. 2008, Julie Czerneda, Riders of the Storm, New York: Daw Books, Interlude, page 406:
    • So on I went, and by my side, it seemed, Paced a great bull, kept from me by a brook Which lipped the grass about it as it streamed Over the flagroots that the grayling shook; 1922, John Masefield, The Dream, London: Heinemann, page 9:
    • It was very soothing and restful up there on the saloon deck, with no sound but the gentle lipping of the water as it rippled against the sides of the steamer. 1898, Arthur Conan Doyle, chapter 10, in The Tragedy of the Korosko, London: Smith, Elder & Co., page 324:
  4. (intransitive) To rise or flow up to or over the edge of something.
    • Above the spring the little statue of the god Myrddin, he of the winged spaces of the air, stared from between the ferns. Beneath his cracked wooden feet the water bubbled and dripped into the stone basin, lipping over into the grass below. 1973, Mary Stewart, The Hollow Hills, New York: William Morrow, Book I, Chapter 3, p. 26:
    • Below, the swollen Eden, lipping full from bank to bank, rolled yellow and surly to the sea. 1903, Robert Barr, Over the Border, London: Isbister, Book 4, Chapter 7, p. 375:
    • The sun lipped over the mountain by now, shone on the corrugated-iron roofs of the five sanitary units, shone on the gray tents and on the swept ground of the streets between the tents. 1939 April 14, John Steinbeck, chapter 22, in The Grapes of Wrath, New York, N.Y.: The Viking Press, →OCLC, page 311:
    • The rest of the herd were grouped so close to the water’s edge that from time to time a lazy, leaden-green swell would come lipping up and splash them. 1911, Charles G. D. Roberts, “Mothers of the North”, in Neighbors Unknown, U.S. edition, New York: Macmillan, page 256:
  5. (transitive) To form the rim, edge or margin of something.
    • The woman had slipped to the very edge of the rock—the edge that lipped the fury of the Pit. She was half over. And she was slipping—slipping.... 1924, James Oliver Curwood, chapter 3, in A Gentleman of Courage, New York: Cosmopolitan, page 36:
    • 1920, W. E. B. Du Bois, Darkwater: Voices from Within the Veil, New York: Harcourt, Brace & Howe, Chapter 9, p. 242, It was a tiny stone house whose front window lipped the passing sidewalk where ever tramped the feet of black soldiers marching home.
    • […] old Macrae, of Adrfeulan Farm near by, had caused rude steps to be cut in the funnel-like hollow rising sheer up from the sloping ledge that lipped the chasm and reached the summit of the scaur. 1894, Fiona Macleod, chapter 4, in Pharais, Derby, page 88:
  6. (transitive) To utter verbally.
    • Salt tears were coming, when I heard my name / Most fondly lipp’d […] 1818, John Keats, “Book I”, in Endymion: A Poetic Romance, London: […] T[homas] Miller, […] for Taylor and Hessey, […], →OCLC, page 48, lines 964–965:
  7. (transitive) To simulate speech by moving the lips without making any sound; to mouth.
    • And as he read, lipping the words, he thought of his own boyhood […] 1980, Cyril Dabydeen, “Mammita’s Garden Cove”, in Caribbean New Wave: Contemporary Short Stories, London: Heinemann, published 1990, page 65:
    • “Ah, I thought my memory didn’t deceive me!” he lipped silently. 1886 May – 1887 April, Thomas Hardy, chapter XIII, in The Woodlanders […], volume III, London; New York, N.Y.: Macmillan and Co., published 1887, →OCLC, page 274:
  8. To make a golf ball hit the lip of the cup, without dropping in.
    • “I shall find the ball to the left of a patch of sword grass near the hole,” he said. “My second will lip the hole, I know it as well as if I could see the whole thing.” 1910 March, Fred M. White, “A Record Round”, in The Windsor Magazine:
    • Lambert just missed his three; his putt lipped the hole before finishing two feet past it. 1999, J. M. Gregson, chapter 9, in Malice Aforethough, Sutton: Severn House, page 112:
  9. (transitive) To change the sound of (a musical note played on a wind instrument) by moving or tensing the lips.

Forms

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lipped Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
lipped Tense=Past lexicographic
lipping Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
lipt Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part obsolete lexicographic
lipt Tense=Past obsolete lexicographic
lips Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic

Translations (7)

ta முத்தமிடு (to kiss) · bg промълвям (to utter verbally) · ta முத்து (to kiss) · ta செப்பு (to utter verbally) · bg целувам (to kiss) · ta உரை (to utter verbally) · ta பேசு (to utter verbally)