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babber-lipped

babber-lipped adjective: having thick, protruding lips.

Adjective

babber-lipped (comparative more babber-lipped, superlative most babber-lipped)

  1. Having thick, protruding lips.
    • Forsooth, Narcissus: by the same token he was turned to a daffodil, and as he died for love of himself, so, if you remember, there was an old ill-favoured, precious-nosed, babber-lipped, beetle-browed, blear-eyed, slouch-eared slave that, looking himself by chance in a glass, died for pure hate.1607, Simon Waterson,, Lingua: Or, The Combat of the Tongue, and the fiue Senses, for Superiority
    • You clamber up because you boast a pair of sea-eyes, when any babber-lipped black in the waist must have sighted them the sooner.1922, Henry Cottrell Rowland, Hirondelle, page 167

Forms of babber-lipped

comparativemore babber-lipped
superlativemost babber-lipped

Questions about babber-lipped

What does babber-lipped mean?
Babber-lipped means having thick, protruding lips.
What part of speech is babber-lipped?
Babber-lipped is an adjective.

Words near babber-lipped in the dictionary

  1. Babbage
  2. Babbagian
  3. babbed
  4. babbelas
  5. babber
  6. babber-lipped
  7. babbers
  8. babbie
  9. babbies
  10. babbing
  11. babbit

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