lipped

English

Etymology

From lip +‎ -ed.

Pronunciation

(Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA^(key): /lɪpt/
Rhymes: -ɪpt

Adjective

lipped (not comparable)

Having a raised lip.
(in combination) Having some specific type of lip.
- 1646, Richard Crashaw, Steps to the Temple, Sacred Poems. With The Delights of the Muses, “Musick’s Duell,” lines 73-77
  […] it seemes a holy quire
  Founded to th’ name of great Apollo’s lyre,
  Whose silver-roofe rings with the sprightly notes
  Of sweet-lipp’d angel-imps, that swill their throats
  In creame of morning Helicon […]
- 1814, William Wordsworth, The Excursion, London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown, Book Four, p. 191,
  […] I have seen
  A curious Child, who dwelt upon a tract
  Of inland ground, applying to his ear
  The convolutions of a smooth-lipped Shell;
- 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, OCLC 57395299:
  Chapter 56
- 1920, F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise, Book Two, Chapter 4,
  Amory squeezed into the back seat beside a gaudy, vermilion-lipped blonde.
- 1933, George R. Preedy (Marjorie Bowen), Double Dallilay (U.S. title Queen’s Caprice), Part 1,
  The two French girls held the gilt-lipped vases of milk and slowly poured them into the alabaster bath.
- 1961, V. S. Naipaul, A House for Mr Biswas, Vintage International, 2001, Part One, Chapter 3,
  [He] furrowed his brow, opened his eyes wider and wider until they were expressionless, and attempted to set his small, plump-lipped mouth.
We met a yellow-lipped woman.

Derived terms

loose-lipped
red-lipped batfish
stiff-lipped
tight-lipped
two-lipped
white-lipped snail

Translations

having a raised lip

Irish: gobach

Verb

lipped

simple past tense and past participle of lip

Anagrams

Dipple