lippy
Plural: lippies
Adj
- Having prominent lips.
- Having a tendency to talk back in a cheeky or impertinent manner.
Noun
- Lip gloss or lipstick; (countable) a stick of this product.
- An old dry measure amounting to one quarter of a peck (for goods sold by weight, 1¾ pounds or about four-fifths of a kilogram); also, a container of that capacity.
Adjective
- Impudent; disrespectful in speech or manner.
Examples
- Don't give me any lip! I don't like how lippy you've been acting lately! Clean your room.
- His opponent’s ’LIPPY’ comments about his tile choices only fueled his determination.
Origin / Etymology
From lip (“fleshy protrusion around the opening of the mouth; (slang) verbal impertinence, backtalk”) + -y (suffix forming adjectives with the sense of ‘having the quality of’).
Synonyms
;, argumentative, contrarious, forpet, insolent, mouthy
Scrabble Score: 12
lippy: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordlippy: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
lippy: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary
Words With Friends Score: 14
lippy: valid Words With Friends Word