lippen

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10
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14
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6

Definition of lippen

2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

verb

  1. (Northern-England, Scotland, UK, dialectal, transitive)To entrust; trust to (someone/something).
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verb

  1. (Northern-England, Scotland, UK, dialectal, transitive)To entrust; trust to (someone/something).
  2. (Northern-England, Scotland, UK, dialectal, intransitive)To trust; to expect; to depend or rely (on).
    “Do not lippen to him! / I was lippening on you.”
    “"And never lippen to what you see from the window," she said. "The eye is deceitful as well as the heart."”

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Etymology

From Middle English lipnen (“to trust”), of obscure origin. Perhaps an alteration of Middle English litnen (“to trust”), of North Germanic origin, from Old Norse hlíta, compare Swedish lita (“to trust, depend, rely on”).

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