stiff upper lippy
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.19 in modern English
32
Scrabble Score
15
Letters
3
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Example Sentences
- "I’m no tweed-brained Jolly Ho type that gets all stiff upper lippy at the sight of some copper-wired disaster posing as a sports car."
- "They grieve separately, Dad watching football and being stiff upper lippy, Mom silently broken in the bedroom […]"
- "If you really want to encounter the English in their most un-‘stiff upper lippy’ mode, go to a panto!"
- "John Lydon, joyful? Make no mistake, as PiL return, the ex-Sex Pistol can see the bright side"
- "It was also quite old fashioned in the stiff upper lippy type sense, you didn’t talk about your feelings much and as long as you did what you were supposed to do, everything was fine but if you stepped out of line there was my mother’s wrath on you."
Inflected Forms
more stiff upper lippy (comparative)
most stiff upper lippy (superlative)