lipped
/lɪpt/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.78 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
1
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
simple past and past participle of lip.
Example Sentences
- "lipped pitcher"
- "[…] 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;"
- "And all the while the thick-lipped leviathan is rushing through the deep, leaving tons of tumultuous white curds in his wake […]"
- "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."
Etymology
From lip + -ed.
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /lɪpt/
- British English: /lɪpt/