lipservice, <span class="searchmatch">lip</span>-<span class="searchmatch">service</span> First use appears c. 1590, in A Treatise against Witchcraft by Henry Holland. Compare earlier <span class="searchmatch">lip</span>-labour. <span class="searchmatch">lip</span> <span class="searchmatch">service</span> (uncountable)...
See also: <span class="searchmatch">lip</span> <span class="searchmatch">service</span> <span class="searchmatch">lip</span>-<span class="searchmatch">service</span> (uncountable) Alternative form of <span class="searchmatch">lip</span> <span class="searchmatch">service</span>. 2000 September, “Corrupt and Farcical Elections”, in Racial Discrimination...
Maturity, page 115: Let us bring no more vain oblations, nor the empty formality of a <span class="searchmatch">lip</span>-deep <span class="searchmatch">service</span>. <span class="searchmatch">lip</span> devotion <span class="searchmatch">lip</span>-labour <span class="searchmatch">lip</span> <span class="searchmatch">service</span> <span class="searchmatch">lip</span> wisdom...
From English <span class="searchmatch">lip</span> <span class="searchmatch">service</span>. リップサービス • (rippusābisu) <span class="searchmatch">lip</span> <span class="searchmatch">service</span>, empty talk Synonym: 世辞...
<span class="searchmatch">lip</span>-server (plural <span class="searchmatch">lip</span>-servers) Someone whose <span class="searchmatch">service</span> occurs solely in their profession. 1852, Joseph Adkins Beckett, Practical Sermons on some of the...
<span class="searchmatch">lip</span> religion (usually uncountable, plural <span class="searchmatch">lip</span> religions) (dated, uncommon) Any form of prayer or religion lacking genuine faith or desire. <span class="searchmatch">lip</span> service...
someone rudely or without respect. Never give me any <span class="searchmatch">lip</span> again! (slang, vulgar, transitive) To perform cunnilingus on a woman. <span class="searchmatch">lip</span> <span class="searchmatch">service</span> (second sense)...
See also: <span class="searchmatch">lip</span> <span class="searchmatch">service</span> lipservice (uncountable) Alternative form of <span class="searchmatch">lip</span> <span class="searchmatch">service</span>. 1996, J. L. Styan, The English Stage, →ISBN, pages xiii–xiv: The present...
From <span class="searchmatch">lip</span> + -en- + dienst. Hyphenation: lip‧pen‧dienst lippendienst m (plural lippendiensten, diminutive lippendienstje n) <span class="searchmatch">lip</span> <span class="searchmatch">service</span>, empty talk...
From <span class="searchmatch">lip</span> + -work. lipwork (uncountable) Synonym of <span class="searchmatch">lip</span> <span class="searchmatch">service</span> (“promising but empty talk; words absent of real action or intention”). lipwork (uncountable)...