lipped

English

Etymology

From lip +‎ -ed.

Pronunciation

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

Adjective

lipped (not comparable)

1. Having a raised lip.

   Antonyms: lipless, unlipped

   Coordinate terms: rimless, unrimmed

   lipped pitcher

2. (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.

Derived terms

• babber-lipped
• big-lipped alligator moment
• blubber-lipped
• loose-lipped
• quare-lipped rhinoceros
• red-lipped batfish
• rosy-lipped batfish
• stiff-lipped
• stiff-upper-lipped
• tight-lipped
• two-lipped
• white-lipped peccary
• white-lipped snail

 

Translations

having a raised lip

• Irish: gobach

Verb

lipped

1. simple past and past participle of lip

Anagrams

• Dipple