Meaning of lipped | Babel Free
/lɪpt/Definitions
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Having a raised lip. not-comparable
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Having some specific type of lip. in-compounds, not-comparable
Examples
“lipped pitcher”
“[…] it seemes a holy quire Founded to th’ name of great Apollo’s lyre, Whose silver-roofe rings with the sprightly notes Of sweet-lipp’d angel-imps, that swill their throats In creame of morning Helicon […]”
“1814, William Wordsworth, The Excursion, London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown, Book Four, p. 191, […] I have seen A curious Child, who dwelt upon a tract Of inland ground, applying to his ear The convolutions of a smooth-lipped Shell;”
“And all the while the thick-lipped leviathan is rushing through the deep, leaving tons of tumultuous white curds in his wake […]”
“Amory squeezed into the back seat beside a gaudy, vermilion-lipped blonde.”
“1933, George R. Preedy (Marjorie Bowen), Double Dallilay (U.S. title Queen’s Caprice), Part 1, The two French girls held the gilt-lipped vases of milk and slowly poured them into the alabaster bath.”
“[He] furrowed his brow, opened his eyes wider and wider until they were expressionless, and attempted to set his small, plump-lipped mouth.”
“We met a yellow-lipped woman.”
CEFR level
B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.