Meaning of babber-lipped | Babel Free

Definitions

Having thick, protruding lips.

Examples

“Forsooth, Narcissus: by the same token he was turned to a daffodil, and as he died for love⟳ of himself, so, if you remember⟳, there was an old ill-favoured, precious-nosed, babber-lipped, beetle-browed, blear-eyed, slouch-eared slave that, looking himself by chance in a glass, died for pure hate⟳.”

“You clamber up because you boast a pair of sea-eyes, when any babber-lipped black in the waist must have⟳ sighted them the sooner.”

“He danced, mimicked frogs and cows in his songs (I think⟳ of Clarence “Frogman” Henry singing “Ain't Got No Home” in 1956), and capped his sly performances as a babber-lipped buffoon by placing billiard balls or a cup and saucer in his mouth (I think⟳ of the guy with the balls in his mouth on the cover⟳ of the Rolling Stones' Exile on Main St.).”

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