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stiff upper lippy

stiff upper lippy is the alternative form of stiff-upper-lippy.

Meaning of stiff-upper-lippy

Adjective

stiff-upper-lippy (comparative more stiff-upper-lippy, superlative most stiff-upper-lippy)

  1. (informal, uncommon) Having, resembling, or characteristic of a stiff upper lip; stoic.
    • I’m trying to be stiff-upper-lippy.2001 October 2, Marti Noxon, “Bargaining”, in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, season 6, episode 1, spoken by Willow Rosenberg (Alyson Hannigan), Los Angeles, Calif.: UPN

Forms of stiff upper lippy

comparativemore stiff upper lippy
superlativemost stiff upper lippy

Questions about stiff upper lippy

What is stiff upper lippy the alternative form of?
Stiff upper lippy is the alternative form of stiff-upper-lippy.

Words near stiff upper lippy in the dictionary

  1. stiff sickness
  2. stiff skin syndrome
  3. Stiff Street
  4. stiff up
  5. stiff upper lip
  6. stiff upper lippy
  7. stiff upper lips
  8. stiff-arm
  9. stiff-armed
  10. stiff-arming
  11. stiff-arms

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