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In some senses, lippy is marked as informal, British, colloquial, historical. Watch for register when choosing this word.
ADJ.
happy, snappy, wide
VERB + LIPPY
don't, like, mouth
LIPPY + NOUN
lingo, oats, you've
PREP.
from
adj
Having prominent lips.
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.
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.
noun
Lip gloss or lipstick; (countable) a stick of this product.
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!
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.
I ſowed on this Ground, without any Dung or Manure, a Lippy of Oats, from which I had a Boll wanting a Chopin.
[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; [...]
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.
WiktionaryDon't give me any lip! I don't like how lippy you've been acting lately! Clean your room.
WiktionaryNo, it's [Tamil is] a happy, snappy, lippy, and loping lingo anyone can see just makes these guys happy to speak and hear.
WiktionaryLike 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 p
WiktionaryI'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!
Wiktionary'Sorry—just trying on new lippies for tonight,' she confessed, flashing a crimson smile.
Wiktionaryi Register
In some senses, lippy is marked as informal, British, colloquial, historical. Watch for register when choosing this word.