lippy

Meaning

Adj

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

Noun

Lip gloss or lipstick; (countable) a stick of this product.

Noun

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.

Synonyms

cheeky

impertinent

insolent

lipstick

💄

mouthy

Hyphenated as

lip‧py

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈlɪpi/

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’).