lippy

adj

1. (informal)Having prominent lips.

   “His eyes were large and prominent, his mouth wide and lippy, and as he bent over his books he emitted sundry low growls and grunts, plainly indicating that his temper was none of the sweetest.”

2. (informal)Having a tendency to talk back in a cheeky or impertinent manner.

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

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

   “I hesitated another moment, then followed her with a vow that I would walk out the instant she got lippy. If she wanted to fire me, fine, I'd go, but I'd be damned if I'd let her lay any crap on me.”

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

   “In clothes, language, and manner, he's hip-hop ghetto meets Italian mobster. He's the lippiest, most foul-mouthed, most confrontational kid I've ever met and also one of the funniest.”

noun

1. (British, New-Zealand, also, colloquial, uncountable)Lip gloss or lipstick; (countable) a stick of this product.

   “Like some kind of masonic handshake, Collie passed Vanya a tube of black lippie. She smeared it carelessly across her wide mouth and handed it to me. My parents would have a hissy fit if they knew I put on lipstick but they weren't around.”

   “I'm worried I'm turning into a 1950s housewife: the other day I found myself tidying up the sitting room and putting on some lippie before Tony got home from work!”

   “'Sorry—just trying on new lippies for tonight,' she confessed, flashing a crimson smile.”

   “A russet shade of sheer lippy proved the finishing touch to Meghan's latest make-up look. It wasn't a full gloss, but appeared to have a balm-like finish, a pretty touch of shine.”

2. (British, New-Zealand, also, colloquial, diminutive, form-of, in-plural)Diminutive of lip.

   “However, to ſerve you as much at^([sic]) I can / (For nothing’s more dear to my life than a man) / Tho’ all my acquantances^([sic]) call me coquette, / And ſwear ſuch extravagant freedoms they hate, / And hanging their lippies, put on their grimace, / And call me immodeſt for ſhewing my face; […]”

   “Those sweet little lippies, like rosebuds at e’en, / Encircle a pipe-stem, impure and unclean?”

   ““Make me immortal with a smack on the lippies,” Amos whispered, bending slightly forward, making an enormous kissing sound.”

   “She grabbed my ciggy from out between my lippies and lit hers with my heater, handing me the manhandled ciggy back, bent and smoldering.”

   “I’ve been watching some “Honeys” sizing you up! / Yeah, right! / I’m not kidding you—right over there, sitting at the bar. Two of them! / Wow, you say two of them? Heaven awaits Marko at the bar! / So are you sure, Marko? A big one on the lippies? / Yepper! It’ll just signal to them that I’m a player!”

3. (British, New-Zealand, Scotland, also, colloquial, 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.

   “I ſowed on this Ground, without any Dung or Manure, a Lippy of Oats, from which I had a Boll wanting a Chopin.”

   “[T]he valuation of lands, tenor of leaſes, the rents, the entails, rent charges, life rents, and payments for or out of land revenue, are all reckoned in Scotland by the chalder, boll, firlot, and lippy, and cannot be altered; [...]”

   “A miniſter's ſtipend is paid by the heritors as follows: James Speers pays 3 bolls 3 firlots 1 peck 3 lippies oats, 2 bolls barley, and L. 3 : 15 : 4; [...]”

   “You good Pastors, [...] you who can prevail upon your parishioners to pay the last lippy of your modified tithes, [...]”

   “A Scotch barley boll contains 5 bushels, 3 pecks, 2 lippies, and a little more, according to the Winchester gallon. A Scotch barley boll, according to the legal measure, contains 6 bushels, wanting a little more than ½ lippie.”

name

1. A surname from German.