lipped
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA(key): /lɪpt/
- Rhymes: -ɪpt
Adjective[edit]
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[1]
- […] 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,[2]
- […] 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:
- And all the while the thick-lipped leviathan is rushing through the deep, leaving tons of tumultuous white curds in his wake […]
- 1920, F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise[3], 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,[4]
- 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, published 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.
- 1646, Richard Crashaw, Steps to the Temple, Sacred Poems. With The Delights of the Muses, “Musick’s Duell,” lines 73-77[1]
Derived terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
having a raised lip
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Verb[edit]
lipped
- simple past and past participle of lip