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lippy

Pronunciation: /ˈlɪpi/

The English word “lippy” has 4 meanings listed here.

adjective

  1. Having prominent lips.
  2. Having a tendency to talk back in a cheeky or impertinent manner.

noun

  1. Lip gloss or lipstick; (countable) a stick of this product.
  2. 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.

Etymology

From lip (“fleshy protrusion around the opening of the mouth; (slang) verbal impertinence, backtalk”) + -y (suffix forming adjectives with the sense of ‘having the quality of’).

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