lip

Meaning

Noun

1. Either of the two fleshy protrusions around the opening of the mouth.
2. A part of the body that resembles a lip, such as the edge of a wound or the labia.
3. The projecting rim of an open container or a bell, etc.; a short open spout.
4. (slang) Backtalk; verbal impertinence.
5. The edge of a high spot of land.
6. The sharp cutting edge on the end of an auger.
7. One of the two opposite divisions of a labiate corolla.
8. A distinctive lower-appearing of the three true petals of an orchid.
9. One of the edges of the aperture of a univalve shell.
10. (colloquial) Embouchure: the condition or strength of a wind instrumentalist's lips.
11. (colloquial) Short for lipstick.

Verb

1. To touch or grasp with the lips; to kiss; to lap the lips against (something).
2. (of something inanimate) To touch lightly.
3. To wash against a surface, lap.
4. To rise or flow up to or over the edge of something.
5. To form the rim, edge or margin of something.
6. To utter verbally.
7. To simulate speech by moving the lips without making any sound; to mouth.
8. To make a golf ball hit the lip of the cup, without dropping in.
9. To change the sound of (a musical note played on a wind instrument) by moving or tensing the lips.

Synonyms

lips

👄

mouth

rim

brim

edge

lower lip

upper lip

back talk

margin

labium

beak

sassing

kiss

😗

flange

teat

backtalk

utter

verge

ledge

brink

insincere

sass

limbus

lug

marge

mealymouthed

osculate

point

proud

pseudo

reeding

salience

sally

set-off

shifty

side

snout

speech

threshold

tip

tongue

👅

unfelt

labrum

spokesman of chief

impudent talk

flanch

outshot

shaft collar

projecting portion

apron

Flg flange

backhanded

border

brow

bulge

bulging

bump

cheap

disingenuous

embouchure

feather

🪶

flaring

flew

fringe

hem

impudence

labellum

labia

labial

lap

lid

limb

Pronounced as (IPA)

/lɪp/

Etymology

From Middle English lippe, from Old English lippa, lippe (“lip”), from Proto-West Germanic *lippjō (“lip”), from Proto-Germanic *lepô, from Proto-Indo-European *leb- (“to hang loosely, droop, sag”).
Cognate with West Frisian lippe (“lip”), Dutch lip (“lip”), German Lippe and Lefze (“lip”), Swedish läpp (“lip”), Norwegian leppe (“lip”),
Danish læbe (“lip”),
Latin labium (“lip”).