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lippie

lippie is the alternative spelling of lippy.

Meaning of lippy

Noun (1)

lippy (countable and uncountable, plural lippies)

  1. (New Zealand, UK, also, colloquial, uncountable) Lip gloss or lipstick; (countable) a stick of this product.
    • Like some kind of masonic handshake, Collie passed Vanya a tube of black lippie. She smeared it carelessly across her wide mouth and handed it to me. My parents would have a hissy fit if they knew I put on lipstick but they weren't around.2007, D. M. Ross, chapter 12, in The Holy Bad, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Vanguard Press, →ISBN, page 52

Noun (2)

lippy (plural lippies)

  1. (New Zealand, Scotland, UK, also, colloquial, historical) An old dry measure amounting to one quarter of a peck (for goods sold by weight, 1¾ pounds or about four-fifths of a kilogram); also, a container of that capacity.
    • I ſowed on this Ground, without any Dung or Manure, a Lippy of Oats, from which I had a Boll wanting a Chopin.1742, Virgil, “Appendix to the Georgicks”, in James Hamilton, transl., Virgil’s Pastorals Translated into English Prose; as also His Georgicks, […], Edinburgh: Printed by W. Cheyne, […]; [s]old by J....
    Synonyms:
    forpet

See all 5 meanings of lippy

Forms of lippie

plurallippies

Origin of lippie

From lip + -ie.

From leap (“trap or snare for fish made from twigs; (obsolete) basket”) + -ie.

Questions about lippie

What is lippie the alternative spelling of?
Lippie is the alternative spelling of lippy.

Words near lippie in the dictionary

  1. Lipperts
  2. Lippes loop
  3. Lippes loops
  4. Lippett
  5. Lippetts
  6. lippie
  7. lippier
  8. lippies
  9. lippiest
  10. Lippincott
  11. Lippincotts

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