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English
Etymology
From lip + -ed.
Pronunciation
Adjective
lipped (not comparable)
- Having a raised lip.
- Antonyms: lipless, unlipped
- Coordinate terms: rimless, unrimmed
lipped pitcher
- (in combination) Having some specific type of lip.
- 1646, Richard Crashaw, Steps to the Temple, Sacred Poems. With The Delights of the Muses, “Musick’s Duell,” lines 73-77
- 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;
- 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.
1961, V. S. Naipaul, A House for Mr Biswas, Vintage International, published 2001, Part One, Chapter 3: furrowed his brow, opened his eyes wider and wider until they were expressionless, and attempted to set his small, plump-lipped mouth.
- We met a yellow-lipped woman.
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Verb
lipped
- simple past and past participle of lip
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