adj
Meaning 1
Having prominent lips.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: informal
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
lippy
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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Australian, General-American, Received-Pronunciation: /ˈlɪpi/
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UK: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
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Scotland: /ˈlɪpɪ/
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rhymes with -ɪpi
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CMU ARPABET: L IH1 P IY0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
adj
Meaning 2
Having a tendency to talk back in a cheeky or impertinent manner.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: informal
Examples
- Don't give me any lip! I don't like how lippy you've been acting lately! Clean your room.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: mouthy, contrarious, argumentative, insolent
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: insubordinate
name
Meaning 3
A surname from German.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 4
Lip gloss or lipstick; (countable) a stick of this product.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: New-Zealand, UK, also, colloquial, uncountable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 5
Diminutive of lip.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: New-Zealand, UK, also, colloquial, diminutive, form-of, in-plural
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 6
An old dry measure amounting to one quarter of a peck (for goods sold by weight, 13⁄4 pounds or about four-fifths of a kilogram); also, a container of that capacity.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: New-Zealand, Scotland, UK, also, colloquial, historical
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: forpet
Antonyms: none provided
History
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’).
Probably an Americanized spelling of Dutch or German Lippe.
From lip(stick) or lip (gloss) + -y (diminutive suffix).
From lip + -y (diminutive suffix).
From leap (“trap or snare for fish made from twigs; (obsolete) basket”) + -y (diminutive suffix).
Across languages
Translations
17 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- French: lippu — having prominent lips
- Galician: beizudo — having prominent lips
- Portuguese: beiçudo — having prominent lips
- Serbo-Croatian: usnat — having prominent lips
- Spanish: befo — having prominent lips
- Spanish: bembudo — having prominent lips
- Spanish: bezudo — having prominent lips
- Spanish: morrudo — having prominent lips
- Spanish: trompudo — having prominent lips
- Chinese Mandarin: 愛頂嘴的 /爱顶嘴的 (àidǐngzuǐde) — having a tendency to talk back in a cheeky or impertinent manner
- French: répondeur — having a tendency to talk back in a cheeky or impertinent manner
- Polish: pyskaty — having a tendency to talk back in a cheeky or impertinent manner
- Spanish: hocicón — having a tendency to talk back in a cheeky or impertinent manner
- Spanish: respondón — having a tendency to talk back in a cheeky or impertinent manner
- Spanish: contestón — having a tendency to talk back in a cheeky or impertinent manner
- Serbo-Croatian: sjajilo — (colloquial) lip gloss
- Serbo-Croatian: štift — (colloquial) lipstick