Meaning of lippy | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Having prominent lips.
   informal
2. Having a tendency to talk back in a cheeky or impertinent manner.
   informal

Equivalents

Examples

“His eyes were large and prominent, his mouth wide and lippy, and as he bent over his books he emitted sundry low growls and grunts, plainly indicating that his temper was none of the sweetest.”

“Don't give me any lip! I don't like how lippy you've been acting lately! Clean your room.”

“No, it's [Tamil is] a happy, snappy, lippy, and loping lingo anyone can see just makes these guys happy to speak and hear.”

“I hesitated another moment, then followed her with a vow that I would walk out the instant she got lippy. If she wanted to fire me, fine, I'd go, but I'd be damned if I'd let her lay any crap on me.”

“His silence conceded the point. Either she'd gotten lippier down the years, or he was getting rusty. Both, probably.”

“In clothes, language, and manner, he's hip-hop ghetto meets Italian mobster. He's the lippiest, most foul-mouthed, most confrontational kid I've ever met and also one of the funniest.”

“Wouldn't it just be my luck to come across the lippiest desk nurse in the whole of Miami?”

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