Pronunciations (2)
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/ˈlɪpi/
Pronunciation notes
- Australia
- General-American
- Received-Pronunciation
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/ˈlɪpɪ/
Pronunciation notes
- Scotland
Adjective
Having prominent lips.
Usage- Informal
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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.
Having a tendency to talk back in a cheeky or impertinent manner.
Usage- Informal
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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.
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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.
Wouldn't it just be my luck to come across the lippiest desk nurse in the whole of Miami?
Noun
Lip gloss or lipstick; (countable) a stick of this product.
Usage- New-Zealand
- UK usage
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- Colloquial
- Uncountable
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Like some kind of masonic handshake, Collie passed Vanya a tube of black lippie. She smeared it carelessly across her wide mouth and handed it to me. My parents would have a hissy fit if they knew I put on lipstick but they weren't around.
I'm worried I'm turning into a 1950s housewife: the other day I found myself tidying up the sitting room and putting on some lippie before Tony got home from work!
'Sorry—just trying on new lippies for tonight,' she confessed, flashing a crimson smile.
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A russet shade of sheer lippy proved the finishing touch to Meghan's latest make-up look. It wasn't a full gloss, but appeared to have a balm-like finish, a pretty touch of shine.
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.
Usage- New-Zealand
- Scotland
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- Colloquial
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I ſowed on this Ground, without any Dung or Manure, a Lippy of Oats, from which I had a Boll wanting a Chopin.
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[T]he valuation of lands, tenor of leaſes, the rents, the entails, rent charges, life rents, and payments for or out of land revenue, are all reckoned in Scotland by the chalder, boll, firlot, and lippy, and cannot be altered; [...]
A miniſter's ſtipend is paid by the heritors as follows: James Speers pays 3 bolls 3 firlots 1 peck 3 lippies oats, 2 bolls barley, and L. 3 : 15 : 4; [...]
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You good Pastors, [...] you who can prevail upon your parishioners to pay the last lippy of your modified tithes, [...]
A Scotch barley boll contains 5 bushels, 3 pecks, 2 lippies, and a little more, according to the Winchester gallon. A Scotch barley boll, according to the legal measure, contains 6 bushels, wanting a little more than ½ lippie.
It was sowens she had in her hand for our supper, when a little old woman walked in and begged a lippie of meal of her.
Now there are perhaps 24 hogsheads sown yearly, every tenant and crofter having from one to four lippies. The increase is about one stone from the lippie.