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lip

/lɪp/ noun

Categories: The BodyPlantsUncommon Words

In Latin: labium, lābrum, labellum Wiktionary

noun Definition from WordNet 3.1, Princeton University. Pronunciation from Wiktionary, via Kaikki.org. More about lip at Wordnik → Where our words come from →

  1. Either of two fleshy folds of tissue that surround the mouth and play a role in speaking.
  2. (botany) either of the two parts of a bilabiate corolla or calyx.
  3. An impudent or insolent rejoinder.
    don't give me any of your sass

Origin

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 Saterland Frisian Lippe (“lip”), West Frisian lippe (“lip”), Dutch lip (“lip”), German Lippe and Lefze (“lip”), Low German Lippe (“lip”), Luxembourgish Lëps (“lip”), Vilamovian łyp (“lip”), Yiddish ליפּ (lip, “lip”), Danish læbe (“lip”), Norwegian Bokmål leppe (“lip”), Norwegian Nynorsk leppa, leppe, lippa, lippe (“lip”), Swedish läpp (“lip”), Latin labium (“lip”).

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