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lippening

lippening is the present participle and gerund of lippen.

Meaning of lippen

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.

Adjective

lippening (comparative more lippening, superlative most lippening)

  1. (Scotland, dialectal) Occasional; accidental.

Synonyms of lippening

Forms of lippening

comparativemore lippening
superlativemost lippening

Origin of lippening

From lippen (“to rely on”).

Questions about lippening

What does lippening mean?
Lippening means occasional; accidental.
What is lippening the present participle and gerund of?
Lippening is the present participle and gerund of lippen.
What part of speech is lippening?
Lippening is an adjective.

Words near lippening in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: lippening (page history and authors); lippen (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.

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