English

Adjective

lipped ‎(not comparable)

1. Having a raised lip.
2. (in combination) Having some specific type of lip.
   • 1646, Richard Crashaw, Steps to the Temple, Sacred Poems. With The Delights of the Muses, “Musick’s Duell,” lines 73-77

     […] it seemes a holy quire

     Founded to th’ name of great Apollo’s lyre,

     Whose silver-roofe rings with the sprightly notes

     Of sweet-lipp’d angel-imps, that swill their throats

     In creame of morning Helicon […]

   • 1814, William Wordsworth, The Excursion, London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown, Book Four, p. 191,

     […] I have seen

     A curious Child, who dwelt upon a tract

     Of inland ground, applying to his ear

     The convolutions of a smooth-lipped Shell;

   • 1851, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick, Chapter 56,

     And all the while the thick-lipped leviathan is rushing through the deep, leaving tons of tumultuous white curds in his wake […]

   • 1920, F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise, Book Two, Chapter 4,

     Amory squeezed into the back seat beside a gaudy, vermilion-lipped blonde.

   • 1933, George R. Preedy (Marjorie Bowen), Double Dallilay (U.S. title Queen’s Caprice), Part 1,

     The two French girls held the gilt-lipped vases of milk and slowly poured them into the alabaster bath.

   • 1961, V. S. Naipaul, A House for Mr Biswas, Vintage International, 2001, Part One, Chapter 3,

     [He] furrowed his brow, opened his eyes wider and wider until they were expressionless, and attempted to set his small, plump-lipped mouth.

   We met a yellow-lipped woman.

Derived terms

• loose-lipped
• red-lipped batfish
• tight-lipped
• two-lipped
• white-lipped snail

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