Meaning of lippie | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Alternative spelling of lippy (“lipstick”).
   alt-of, alternative, countable, uncountable
2. Alternative spelling of lippy (“dry measure”).
   alt-of, alternative

Examples

“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.”

“I'm worried I'm turning into a 1950s housewife: the other day I found myself tidying up the sitting room and putting on some lippie before Tony got home from work⟳!”

“A miniſter's ſtipend is paid by the heritors as follows: James Speers pays 3 bolls 3 firlots 1 peck 3 lippies oats, 2 bolls barley, and L. 3 : 15 : 4; [...]”

“A Scotch barley boll contains 5 bushels, 3 pecks, 2 lippies, and a little more, according to the Winchester gallon. A Scotch barley boll, according to the legal measure⟳, contains 6 bushels, wanting a little more than ½ lippie.”

“It was sowens she had in her hand for our supper, when a little old woman walked in and begged a lippie of meal of her.”

“Now there are perhaps 24 hogsheads sown yearly, every tenant and crofter having from one to four lippies. The increase⟳ is about one stone from the lippie.”

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