Lippy

Quick meaning: Lippy is an adjective meaning (informal) Having prominent lips.

Meaning

(informal) Having prominent lips.

More Meanings

1. (informal) Having a tendency to talk back in a cheeky or impertinent manner.
2. (uncountable) Lip gloss or lipstick; (countable) a stick of this product.
3. (colloquial, chiefly in the plural) Diminutive of lip.
4. (Scotland, historical) An old dry measure amounting to one quarter of a peck (for goods sold by weight, 1¾ pounds or about four-fifths of a kilogram); also, a container of that capacity.

Example Sentences

Don't give me any lip! I don't like how lippy you've been acting lately! Clean your room.

Wouldn't it just be my luck to come across the lippiest desk nurse in the whole of Miami?

His silence conceded the point. Either she'd gotten lippier down the years, or he was getting rusty. Both, probably.

No, it's [Tamil is] a happy, snappy, lippy, and loping lingo anyone can see just makes these guys happy to speak and hear.

Word Forms

• lippier
• lippiest
• lippies
• lippie

Synonyms for lippy

Depending on context, synonyms include mouthy, contrarious, argumentative, insolent, forpet.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include labiate, liplike, lipsticky, labiated, babber-lipped, labrose.

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