lip
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: lĭp
ipa: /lɪp/
rhymes: -ɪp
Forms: form: lips
Etymology: From Middle English lippe, from Old English lippa, lippe (“lip”), from Proto-West Germanic *lippjō (“lip”), from Proto-Germanic *lepô, from Proto-Indo-European *leb- (“to hang loosely, droop, sag”).
Cognate with Saterland Frisian Lippe (“lip”), West Frisian lippe (“lip”), Dutch lip (“lip”), German Lippe and Lefze (“lip”), Low German Lippe (“lip”), Luxembourgish Lëps (“lip”), Vilamovian łyp (“lip”), Yiddish ליפּ (lip, “lip”), Danish læbe (“lip”), Norwegian Bokmål leppe (“lip”), Norwegian Nynorsk leppa, leppe, lippa, lippe (“lip”), Swedish läpp (“lip”),
Latin labium (“lip”).
Senses: examples: text: […]thine owne lippes teſtifie againſt thee.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Job 15:6, column 1:
synonyms: labium
glosses: Either of the two fleshy protrusions around the opening of the mouth.
examples: text: […]I twiſted my thighs, ſqueezed, and compreſs’d the lips of that virgin-ſlit[…]
ref: 1749, [John Cleland], “[Letter the First]”, in Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure [Fanny Hill], volume I, London: […] [Thomas Parker] for G. Fenton [i.e., Fenton and Ralph Griffiths] […], →OCLC, pages 67–68:
english: Fanny Hill
translation: Fanny Hill
synonyms: labium
glosses: A part of the body that resembles a lip, such as the edge of a wound or the labia.
examples: text: The cork sails over the garden wall and lands somewhere no one can see it. A crest of white spills over the lip of the bottle and Niall pours the wine into Elaine's glass.
ref: 2018, Sally Rooney, “Six Months Later (July 2013)”, in Normal People:
synonyms: edge
rim
spout
glosses: The projecting rim of an open container or a bell, etc.; a short open spout.
examples: text: Don’t give me any lip!
text: Kevin Sutherland: I've had enough of your lip!
ref: 2008 May 1, Damon Beesley, Iain Morris, The Inbetweeners, I:ii: “Bunk Off”,:
text: Loose Tomato grew up tough. No one ever suspected that he was scared every time he walked down the street. Any lip and they got their ass kicked.
ref: 1977, Larry Mitchell, The Faggots & Their Friends Between Revolutions, Calamus Books; republished New York: Nightboat Books, 2020, →ISBN, page 97:
synonyms: word: backchat
word: cheek
alt: informal
word: impudence
word: rudeness
word: insolence
glosses: Backtalk; verbal impertinence.
examples: text: We landed at the head of Garden Island, which is situated near the middle of the river and on the lip of the Falls. On reaching that lip, and peering over the giddy height, the wondrous and unique character of the magnificent cascade at once burst upon us.
ref: 1894, David Livingstone, “Chapter VII”, in A Popular Account of Dr Livingstone's Expedition to the Zambesi and its Tributaries:
text: They toiled forward along a tiny path on the river’s lip. Suddenly it vanished. The bank was sheer red solid clay in front of them, sloping straight into the river.
ref: 1913, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, “Passion”, in Sons and Lovers, London: Duckworth & Co. […], →OCLC, part II, page 311:
text: Looking to the east we could see Api and the mountains of west Nepal, shapely snow peaks in the distance, while in the immediate foreground, much lower but still dramatic, were the peaks of Panch Chuli IV and V (III was hidden by the lip of a huge cornice), Telkot and Nagling, all of them unclimbed, all steep and challenging.
ref: 1999, Harish Kapadia, “Ascents in the Panch Chuli Group”, in Across Peaks & Passes in Kumaun Himalaya, New Delhi: Indus Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 136:
glosses: The edge of a high spot of land.
glosses: The sharp cutting edge on the end of an auger.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: One of the two opposite divisions of a labiate corolla.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: A distinctive lower-appearing of the three true petals of an orchid.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: One of the edges of the aperture of a univalve shell.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Embouchure: the condition or strength of a wind instrumentalist's lips.
examples: text: I put on some red lip and a casual print dress.
glosses: Clipping of lipstick.
Meronyms: sense: fleshy protrusion
word: philtrum
sense: fleshy protrusion
word: Cupid's bow
sense: fleshy protrusion
word: vermilion
sense: fleshy protrusion
word: commissure
Derived terms: Austrian lip
bite one's lip
black lip
blacklip
blubber-lip
boot lip
bootlip
bushlip
button one's lip
button up one's lip
chessel
cleft lip
cunt lips
fat lip
flap one's lips
your lips to God's ears
give lip
goldlip
Habsburg lip
hang one's lip
hare lip
harelip
keep one's lips sealed
lick one's lips
lip balm
lip bear
lip bit
lip cell
lip clap
lipcoat
lip color
lip comfort
lipcurl
lip-deep
lip devotion
lip dub
lip duo
lip fern
lip flap
lip flip
lip gloss
lip homage
lip job
lip-labour
lip language
lipless
liplet
liplike
lipline
lip liner
lipliner
lip lock
liplock
lip-lock
lip-locked
lip off
lip out
lippage
lipped
lip-pierced
lip piercing
lippies
lipping
lip plate
lip plug
lipprint
lippy
lipread
lip-read
lipreader
lip-reader
lip reading
lip-reading
lipreading
lip religion
lip-ribbon
lip salve
lip seal
lip-server
lip-service
lip service
lipslide
lip-smacking
lip-smackingly
lipstick
lip-strap
lip sync
lip-sync
lip-syncer
lip-synch
lip-synching
lip-syncing
lip wisdom
lipwork
lip wrestle
lock lips
loose lip
loose lips sink ships
love lips
lower lip
make a lip
monkey lip
monkey lips
netherlip
one's lips are sealed
on everybody's lips
on everyone's lips
other lips
overlip
pseudolip
read lips
read someone's lips
shoot from the lip
stiff upper lip
there's many a slip between the cup and the lip
there's many a slip twixt cup and lip
there's many a slip twixt the cup and the lip
thick lip
three-lips
tight-lipped
underlip
upper lip
vagina lips
V-lip redhorse
whitelip
zip one's lip
zip the lip
zip up one's lip