lip
/lɪp/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: 4.13 in modern English
5
Scrabble Score
3
Letters
1
Syllables
3
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "[…]thine owne lippes teſtifie againſt thee."
- "[…]I twiſted my thighs, ſqueezed, and compreſs’d the lips of that virgin-ſlit[…]"
- "The cork sails over the garden wall and lands somewhere no one can see it. A crest of white spills over the lip of the bottle and Niall pours the wine into Elaine's glass."
- "Don’t give me any lip!"
- "Kevin Sutherland: I've had enough of your lip!"
- "Loose Tomato grew up tough. No one ever suspected that he was scared every time he walked down the street. Any lip and they got their ass kicked."
Etymology
From Middle English lippe, from Old English lippa, lippe (“lip”), from Proto-West Germanic *lippjō (“lip”), from Proto-Germanic *lepô, from Proto-Indo-European *leb- (“to hang loosely, droop, sag”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Lippe (“lip”), West Frisian lippe (“lip”), Dutch lip (“lip”), German Lippe and Lefze (“lip”), Low German Lippe (“lip”), Luxembourgish Lëps (“lip”), Vilamovian łyp (“lip”), Yiddish ליפּ (lip, “lip”), Danish læbe (“lip”), Norwegian Bokmål leppe (“lip”), Norwegian Nynorsk leppa, leppe, lippa, lippe (“lip”), Swedish läpp (“lip”), Latin labium (“lip”).
Origin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /lɪp/
- British English: /lɪp/
Usage
Subject
Wiktionary places this term in Medicine.