lippies
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English
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Noun
[edit]lippies
Etymology 2
[edit]Noun
[edit]lippies pl (plural only)
- (colloquial) Lips.
- 1773 April 11, Celinda, “Solution of the query propoſed by Mankind,—attempted by a Lady”, in The Perth Magazine of Knowledge and Pleasure, page 80:
- However, to ſerve you as much at[sic] I can / (For nothing’s more dear to my life than a man) / Tho’ all my acquantances call me coquette, / And ſwear ſuch extravagant freedoms they hate, / And hanging their lippies, put on their grimace, / And call me immodeſt for ſhewing my face; […]
- 1873, James Ogg, “Little Willie”, in Willie Waly; and Other Poems, Aberdeen: […] the Free Press Office, page 182:
- Those sweet little lippies, like rosebuds at e’en, / Encircle a pipe-stem, impure and unclean?
- 1967, William Goldman, The Thing of It Is..., New York, N.Y.: Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc., page 73:
- “Make me immortal with a smack on the lippies,” Amos whispered, bending slightly forward, making an enormous kissing sound.
- 2008, Kevin Pecore, My Iron Lung, KMDS Publishing Co., →ISBN, page 54:
- She grabbed my ciggy from out between my lippies and lit hers with my heater, handing me the manhandled ciggy back, bent and smoldering.
- 2010, Matt Allman, To Bind Fast, Xlibris, →ISBN:
- I’ve been watching some “Honeys” sizing you up! / Yeah, right! / I’m not kidding you—right over there, sitting at the bar. Two of them! / Wow, you say two of them? Heaven awaits Marko at the bar! / So are you sure, Marko? A big one on the lippies? / Yepper! It’ll just signal to them that I’m a player!
- 2019, Ashley DD Hajny, From Golden Eagle to White Eagle: A Special Invitation to Become Like Christ, Xlibris, →ISBN:
- His beautiful cheeks are like a bed of spices or balsam, such a rich, beautiful smell of the chief spices, and like banks of sweet herbs yielding the fragrances of princely freshliness. His gorgeous lippies are like blood red anemones, a beautiful little flower like a daughter, or even lilies distilling liquid sweet-scented myrrh, the chief of the chiefs!
- 2020, Matthew McConaughey, Greenlights, New York, N.Y.: Crown, →ISBN, page 75:
- Then Marjorie, who’d been sipping her wine all day, giddily said to me and everyone in the room, “Matthew, Meredith’s about to leave, why don’t you give her a kiss goodbye . . . on the lippies!”