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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’).[1]
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.
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.
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.
2007, D. M. Ross, chapter 12, in The Holy Bad, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Vanguard Press, →ISBN, page 52:
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.
2008, Lynn Bertram, “The World of Motherhood”, in Supporting Postnatal Women Into Motherhood: A Guide to Therapeutic Groupwork for Health Professionals, Abingdon, Oxfordshire: Radcliffe Publishing, →ISBN, page 11:
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!
2008, Rachel Power, “Emma Matthews—Opera Singer”, in The Divided Heart: Art and Motherhood, Fitzroy, Vic.: Red Dog Books, →ISBN; republished Fitzroy, Vic.: Red Dog Books, 2012, →ISBN, page 159:
'Sorry—just trying on new lippies for tonight,' she confessed, flashing a crimson smile.
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.
1742, Virgil, “Appendix to the Georgicks”, in James Hamilton, transl., Virgil’s Pastorals Translated into English Prose; as also His Georgicks,, Edinburgh: Printed by W. Cheyne,; old by J. Traill and G. Crawford,; and by J. Barry, →OCLC, page 43:
I ſowed on this Ground, without any Dung or Manure, a Lippy of Oats, from which I had a Boll wanting a Chopin.
1786, Daniel De Foe [i.e., Daniel Defoe], “Appendix. Part I. Containing an Account of Transactions in both Parts of the United Kingdoms, subsequent to the Union;”, in A History of the Union between England and Scotland, with a Collection of Original Papers Relating thereto., London: Printed for John Stockdale,, →OCLC, page 600:
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; [...]
1798, Robert Hamilton, “Subtraction”, in An Introduction to Merchandise., 2nd corrected and revised edition, Edinburgh: Printed for Charles Elliot,; and for C. Elliot, T. Kay, and Co., →OCLC, §19, paragraph XIII, page 19:
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; [...]
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.
1871 March, “Three-quarters of a Century Ago. Fortingal.”, in The Poor Law Magazine and Journal of Public Health, volume IV, number IV (New Series), Glasgow: Published for the promoters by N. Adshead,, →OCLC, page 290:
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.
, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1903; “lippy, adj.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
