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lippen

lippen verb: to entrust; trust to (someone/something).

Verb

lippen (third-person singular simple present lippens, present participle lippening, simple past and past participle lippened)

  1. (Northern England, Scotland, UK, dialectal, transitive) To entrust; trust to (someone/something).
  2. (Northern England, Scotland, UK, dialectal, intransitive) To trust; to expect; to depend or rely (on).
    • Do not lippen to him! / I was lippening on you.
    • "And never lippen to what you see from the window," she said. "The eye is deceitful as well as the heart."1896, Margaret Oliphant, The Library Window

Forms of lippen

third-person singular presentlippens
present participlelippening
past participlelippened
pastlippened
alternative formlicken

Origin of lippen

From Middle English lipnen (“to trust”), of obscure origin. Perhaps an alteration of Middle English litnen (“to trust”), of North Germanic origin, from Old Norse hlíta, compare Swedish lita (“to trust, depend, rely on”).

Words formed from lippen

Questions about lippen

What does lippen mean?
Lippen means to entrust; trust to (someone/something).
What part of speech is lippen?
Lippen is a verb.
What is the past tense of lippen?
The past tense of lippen is lippened.

Words near lippen in the dictionary

  1. Lippe
  2. lipped
  3. lipped off
  4. lipped out
  5. lippedness
  6. lippen
  7. lippened
  8. lippening
  9. lippens
  10. Lippershey
  11. Lippert

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