babber-lipped

English

Adjective

babber-lipped (comparative more babber-lipped, superlative most babber-lipped)

1. Having thick, protruding lips.
   • 1607, Simon Waterson,, Lingua: Or, The Combat of the Tongue, and the fiue Senses, for Superiority:

     Forsooth, Narcissus: by the same token he was turned to a daffodil, and as he died for love of himself, so, if you remember, there was an old ill-favoured, precious-nosed, babber-lipped, beetle-browed, blear-eyed, slouch-eared slave that, looking himself by chance in a glass, died for pure hate.

   • 1922, Henry Cottrell Rowland, Hirondelle, page 167:

     You clamber up because you boast a pair of sea-eyes, when any babber-lipped black in the waist must have sighted them the sooner.

   • 2009, Nick Tosches, Where Dead Voices Gather:

     He danced, mimicked frogs and cows in his songs (I think of Clarence “Frogman” Henry singing “Ain't Got No Home” in 1956), and capped his sly performances as a babber-lipped buffoon by placing billiard balls or a cup and saucer in his mouth (I think of the guy with the balls in his mouth on the cover of the Rolling Stones' Exile on Main St.).