lipstick

English

Etymology

lip +‎ stick

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈlɪpˌstɪk/

• Audio (US)

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• Rhymes: -ɪpstɪk

Noun

lipstick (usually uncountable, plural lipsticks)

1. (uncountable) Makeup for the lips.

   Are you wearing any lipstick today?

   • 2003 August 31, TammyM, “Re: OT: Penis Casino; free Viagra!”, in alt.support.stop-smoking‎^[1] (Usenet):

     In fact, I just saw the movie Shirley Valentine (for the umpteenth time!), and couldn't even look at the adult Marjorie Majors without seeing Patsy and her boofed up hair and red lipstick and long cigarette holder.

2. (countable) A stick of this makeup.

   I'd like three lipsticks in this shade.

   • 2021 December 27, Linda MorningStar, Destiny's Wavering Road‎^[2], Dorrance Publishing, →ISBN, page 164:

     She darkens up her eyebrows with it and then runs a tube of pink lipstick over her mouth. She immediately wipes it off with the palm of her hand. She should have black lipstick. A true ninja woman would wear black lipstick.

3. (countable, colloquial) A dog's penis.
   • 2012, Sarah Pekkanen, These Girls, Washington Square Press, →ISBN, page 241:

     “So she storms off, yelling at me, ‘Tell your dog to put his lipstick back in its case!’ and that dog and I just stared after them. Both of us were totally smitten.”

   • 2019, anonymous author, chapter 15, in You Shot My Dog and I Love You, Mercier Press, →ISBN:

     I looked over at our new house-wolf, hoping for a connection, but it was too soon. I felt nothing but resentment. What I saw, however, was something I would have to look away from regularly. He had his lipstick out.

   • 2021, Kate Karyus Quinn, Demitria Lunetta, Marley Lynn, chapter 12, in The Lying, the Witch, & the Werewolf (Down & Dirty Supernatural Cleaning Services; book 4), Little Fish Publishing:

     “Speaking of loyalty…” I give Shit a nasty side-eye but he only pants at me, eyes slightly glazed. That’s when I realize his lipstick is all the way out.
     “Hey, stop turning my dog on,” I tell Mac.

4. (countable, slang) Short for lipstick lesbian.
   • 2006, Stephen Siciliano, The Sidewalk Smokers Club, page 82:

     Joya was what they called a Lipstick Lesbian. Without wandering too far through the minefield that gay culture can be for the moderately indoctrinated, let stand the observation that this thriving local fauna (The Lipsticks, that is) struck some observers as representing a step up (or forward) in the social evolution of female homosexuality.

Derived terms

• lipstick effect
• lipstick lesbian
• lipstick tree
• put lipstick on a pig

 

Descendants

• → Dutch: lipstick
• → Bengali: লিপস্টিক (liposṭik)
• → Hindi: लिपस्टिक (lipasṭik)
• → Japanese: リップスティック (rippusutikku)
• → Korean: 립스틱 (ripseutik)
• → Lao: ລິບສະຕິກ (lip sa tik)
• → Malay: lipstik
• → Thai: ลิปสติก (líp-sà-dtìk)

Translations

make-up for the lips

• Arabic: أَحْمَر شِفَاه m (ʔaḥmar šifāh)

  Gulf Arabic: حمرة f (ḥumra)

  Hijazi Arabic: روج m (rōj)

• Armenian: շրթներկ (hy) (šrtʻnerk)
• Assamese: লিপিষ্টিক (lipistik)
• Asturian: barra de llabios f
• Azerbaijani: dodaq boyası
• Basque: ezpainetako
• Belarusian: губна́я пама́да f (hubnája pamáda)
• Bengali: লিপস্টিক (bn) (liposṭik)
• Breton: ruz-muzelloù m
• Bulgarian: черви́ло (bg) n (červílo)
• Catalan: pintallavis (ca) m
• Chechen: балдех хьокху хьакхар (baldex ḥʳoqu ḥʳaqar)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 唇膏 (zh) (chúngāo), 口紅／口红 (zh) (kǒuhóng)

• Cornish: minliw m
• Czech: rtěnka (cs) f
• Danish: læbestift (da) c
• Dutch: lippenrood (nl) m, lippenstift (nl) f, lipstick (nl)
• Esperanto: lipoŝminko, lipbastoneto, lipruĝo
• Estonian: huulepulk (et)
• Finnish: huulipuna (fi)
• French: rouge à lèvres (fr) m
• Friulian: sbelet m
• Georgian: პომადა (ṗomada), ტუჩის საცხი (ṭučis sacxi)
• German: Lippenstift (de) m
• Greek: κραγιόν (el) n (kragión)
• Hawaiian: pena waha
• Hebrew: אודם / אֹדֶם (he) m (ódem), שְׂפָתוֹן (he) m (sfáton)
• Hindi: लिपस्टिक (hi) f (lipasṭik)
• Hungarian: rúzs (hu)
• Icelandic: varalitur (is) m
• Indonesian: lipstik (id)
• Irish: béaldath m
• Italian: rossetto (it) m
• Japanese: 口紅 (ja) (くちべに, kuchibeni), リップスティック (rippusutikku), ルージュ (ja) (rūju)
• Kazakh: ерін далабы (erın dalaby), далап (dalap)
• Khmer: ក្រែមលាបមាត់ (kraem liəp mŏət), ក្រមួនមាត់ (krɑmuən mŏət), ក្រេម (kreem) (cream, pomade, lipstick)
• Korean: 립스틱 (ko) (ripseutik), 입술연지 (ipsullyeonji), 루주 (ruju)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: سوراو (suraw)

  Northern Kurdish: sorav (ku) f

• Kyrgyz: эрин помадасы (erin pomadası)
• Ladino: ruj m
• Lao: ລິບສະຕິກ (lip sa tik)
• Latin: baculum, labrum baculum
• Lower Sorbian: nagubny barwik m
• Macedonian: кармин m (karmin), црвило n (crvilo)
• Malay: gincu (ms), lipstik
• Manx: beeal-daah
• Maori: pani ngutu, ripitiki
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: уруулын будаг (uruulyn budag), уруулын энгэсэг (uruulyn engeseg) (China)

• Navajo: zábąąh bee yichxíhí
• Ngazidja Comorian: mlala class 3/4
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: leppestift m

  Nynorsk: leppestift m, lepestift m

• Occitan: pintrapòts
• Pashto: لپسټیک m (lipsṭik)
• Persian: رژ لب (fa) (rož-e lab), ماتیک (fa) (mâtik), رژ (rož), لب‌سرین (lab-serin) (Dari)
• Piedmontese: russet m
• Polish: szminka (pl) f, barwidło n (dated)
• Portuguese: batom (pt) m
• Punjabi: ਲਿਪਸਟਿਕ f (lipsaṭik), سُرْخی f (surxī)
• Romanian: ruj (ro) n, roșu de buze (ro) m
• Romansch: lefzagl m, bellet da lefs m
• Russian: губна́я пома́да (ru) f (gubnája pomáda)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ка̀рмӣн m, ру̑ж m

  Roman: kàrmīn (sh) m, rȗž (sh) m

• Slovak: rúž (sk) m
• Spanish: lápiz labial (es) m, pintalabios (es) m, lápiz de labios (es) m, labial (es) m, carmín (es) m
• Swahili: rangi ya mdomo
• Swedish: läppstift (sv) n
• Tagalog: lipstik
• Tajik: лабсурхкунак (tg) (labsurxkunak)
• Tausug: atal
• Thai: ลิปสติก (th) (líp-sà-dtìk)
• Tibetan: མཆུ་ཏོ་དམར་པོ་བཟོ་ཡག (mchu to dmar po bzo yag)
• Turkish: ruj (tr)
• Ukrainian: губна́ пома́да f (hubná pomáda)
• Upper Sorbian: barbjenčk
• Urdu: سرخی f (surxī)
• Uzbek: labga suriladigan pomada, lab boʻyogʻi
• Vietnamese: cây son, son môi
• Welsh: minlliw m
• West Frisian: lippestift

stick of this make-up

• Armenian: շրթներկ (hy) (šrtʻnerk)
• Bulgarian: черви́ло (bg) n (červílo)
• Catalan: pintallavis (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 唇膏 (zh) (chúngāo), 口紅／口红 (zh) (kǒuhóng)

• Czech: rtěnka (cs) f
• Danish: læbestift (da) c
• Dutch: lippenstift (nl) m, lipstick (nl) m
• Esperanto: lipoŝminko
• Estonian: huulepulk (et)
• Finnish: huulipuna (fi), huulipunapuikko
• French: rouge à lèvres (fr) m
• Hungarian: ajakrúzs (hu)
• Indonesian: lipstik (id)
• Italian: rossetto (it) m
• Japanese: リップスティック (rippusutikku)
• Korean: 립스틱 (ko) (ripseutik)
• Macedonian: кармин m (karmin), црвило n (crvilo)
• Maori: pani ngutu
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: уруулын будаг (uruulyn budag)

• Ngazidja Comorian: mlala class 3/4
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: leppestift m

  Nynorsk: leppestift m, lepestift m

• Polish: szminka (pl) f
• Portuguese: batom (pt) m
• Romanian: ruj (ro) n
• Russian: губна́я пома́да (ru) f (gubnája pomáda)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ка̀рмӣн m, ру̑ж m

  Roman: kàrmīn (sh) m, rȗž (sh) m

• Slovak: rúž (sk) m
• Spanish: lápiz labial (es) m, pintalabios (es) m, lápiz de labios (es) m
• Swedish: läppstift (sv) n
• Tagalog: lipstik
• Turkish: ruj (tr)

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Translations to be checked

• Esperanto: ^{(please verify)} lipruĝo

Verb

lipstick (third-person singular simple present lipsticks, present participle lipsticking, simple past and past participle lipsticked)

1. (transitive) To apply lipstick to; to paint with lipstick.
   • 1936, Liberty, volume 13, number 4, page 55:

     She had even white teeth and a mouth that needed no lipsticking.

Anagrams

• lickspit, picklist

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English lipstick.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈlɪp.stɪk/

• Audio

  (file)

• Hyphenation: lip‧stick

Noun

lipstick m (plural lipsticks, diminutive lipstickje n)

1. lipstick

Synonyms

• lippenstift

Spanish

Noun

lipstick m (plural lipsticks)

1. lipstick