lip

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[edit] English

Lips.

[edit] Etymology

From Middle English, from Old English lippa, with various Germanic cognates (see Translations), and probably also Latin labium

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[edit] Noun

Singular
lip

Plural
countable and uncountable; plural lips

lip (countable and uncountable; plural lips)

  1. (countable) Either of the two fleshy protrusions around the opening of the mouth.
  2. (countable) A part of the body that resembles a lip, such as the edge of a wound or the labia.
  3. (countable) The rim of an open container.
  4. (slang, uncountable) backtalk, verbal impertinence.
    Don’t give me any lip!

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[edit] Translations

fleshy protrusion framing the mouth
part of body resembling a lip
rim of an open container
slang: backtalk, verbal impertinence
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[edit] Adjective

lip (comparative more lip, superlative most lip)

Positive
lip

Comparative
more lip

Superlative
most lip
  1. labial, produced using the lips
  2. insincere, murmured merely trough the lips

[edit] Verb

Infinitive
to lip

Third person singular
lips

Simple past
liped

Past participle
liped

Present participle
liping

to lip (third-person singular simple present lips, present participle liping, simple past and past participle liped)

  1. To touch with the lips, notably kiss or lick, lap the lips against something
  2. To utter verbally
  3. To simulate speech merely by lip-movement, as suffices for a lip-reader
  4. (sports) to make a golf ball hit the lip of the cup, without dropping in

[edit] Croatian

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[edit] Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *lěpъ.

[edit] Adjective

lip

  1. (Chakavian) (Ikavian) nice, pretty
    Pasite se, ovce mile,
    sve ste lipe, sve ste bile
    Tad se usčudiše svi, vidiv Juditu,
    toko lipa biše i u takovu svitu.
    Ovog zaručnika, lipa, mila, srićna,
    imati jest dika, srića, radost vična.

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[edit] Noun

lip f. (plural lippen, diminutive lipje, diminutive plural lipjes)

  1. Lip (part of the mouth)
  2. Lip (of a container)

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[edit] Noun

lip

  1. Abbreviation of lipiec; (July)
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