lipped
adjUS, UK /lɪpt/
Etymology From lip + -ed.
1
Having a raised lip.
- lipped pitcher
2
In compounds Having some specific type of lip.
- […] 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 […]1646, Richard Crashaw, Steps to the Temple, Sacred Poems. With The Delights of the Muses, “Musick’s Duell,” lines 73-77
- 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;
4 more examples
- And all the while the thick-lipped leviathan is rushing through the deep, leaving tons of tumultuous white curds in his wake […]1851 November 14, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:
- Amory squeezed into the back seat beside a gaudy, vermilion-lipped blonde.1920, F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise, Book Two, Chapter 4:
- 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.
- [He] furrowed his brow, opened his eyes wider and wider until they were expressionless, and attempted to set his small, plump-lipped mouth.1961, V. S. Naipaul, A House for Mr Biswas, Vintage International, published 2001, Part One, Chapter 3:
- Derived terms
- babber-lipped, big-lipped alligator moment, black-lipped pika, blubber-lipped, blue-lipped sea krait, hare-lipped monkey, honey-lipped, lippedness, loose-lipped, redlipped, red-lipped batfish, rosy-lipped batfish, square-lipped rhinoceros, stiff-lipped, stiff-upper-lipped, tight-lipped, two-lipped, unlipped, white-lipped peccary, white-lipped snail, yellow-lipped sea krait