Word.ws English Dictionary

lip-server

lip-server noun: someone whose service occurs solely in their profession.

Noun

lip-server (plural lip-servers)

  1. Someone whose service occurs solely in their profession.
    • ... the mere nominal professor and false-hearted lip-server may do this;1852, Joseph Adkins Beckett, Practical Sermons on some of the Fundamental Truths of Christianity, as addressed to a village congregation, page 127

Forms of lip-server

plurallip-servers

Questions about lip-server

What does lip-server mean?
Lip-server means someone whose service occurs solely in their profession.
What part of speech is lip-server?
Lip-server is a noun.
What is the plural of lip-server?
The plural of lip-server is lip-servers.

Words near lip-server in the dictionary

  1. lip-reader
  2. lip-readers
  3. lip-reading
  4. lip-reads
  5. lip-ribbon
  6. lip-server
  7. lip-servers
  8. lip-service
  9. lip-smacking
  10. lip-smackingly
  11. lip-smackings

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: lip-server (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “lip-server.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/lip-server. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.