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lippy

[ lip-ee ]

adjective

lippier, lippiest.
  1. having large or prominent lips.
  2. Slang. impudent; fresh.


lippy

1

/ ˈlɪpɪ /

adjective

  1. insolent or cheeky
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

lippy

2

/ ˈlɪpɪ /

noun

  1. informal.
    lipstick
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Other Word Forms

  • lippi·ness noun
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Word History and Origins

Origin of lippy1

First recorded in 1870–75; lip + -y 1
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Example Sentences

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And Irvine's lippy dismissiveness when confronted by Senna complaining about the incident after the race led the three-time champion to punch him.

From BBC

“I get too lippy with him, he brings me over to his car, and just I didn’t help my situation at all,” he said in the video, calling his behavior “ridiculous,” “immature” and “disrespectful.”

Under Hudes’s direction, the Author is played by five performers referred to collectively on the pages of the script as Grrrls, a lippy Greek chorus.

Directed by the pair for Dead Centre — their Dublin company, familiar to New York audiences for the shows “Lippy” and “Hamnet” — it whittles Chekhov’s script down to a bare 70 minutes.

He asks if she would like some "lippy" on for a photograph.

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