lippy
/ˈlɪpi/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.20 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
2
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Lip gloss or lipstick; (countable) a stick of this product.
New Zealand usage; British usage; Colloquial; Uncountable
noun
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.
New Zealand usage; British usage; Colloquial
Example Sentences
- "His eyes were large and prominent, his mouth wide and lippy, and as he bent over his books he emitted sundry low growls and grunts, plainly indicating that his temper was none of the sweetest."
- "Don't give me any lip! I don't like how lippy you've been acting lately! Clean your room."
- "No, it's [Tamil is] a happy, snappy, lippy, and loping lingo anyone can see just makes these guys happy to speak and hear."
- "I hesitated another moment, then followed her with a vow that I would walk out the instant she got lippy. If she wanted to fire me, fine, I'd go, but I'd be damned if I'd let her lay any crap on me."
- "His silence conceded the point. Either she'd gotten lippier down the years, or he was getting rusty. Both, probably."
- "In clothes, language, and manner, he's hip-hop ghetto meets Italian mobster. He's the lippiest, most foul-mouthed, most confrontational kid I've ever met and also one of the funniest."
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’).
Origin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈlɪpi/
- British English: /ˈlɪpi/
Usage
- Informal
- New Zealand usage
- British usage
- Colloquial
- Uncountable