lip – English noun declension

English noun forms of lip

Noun: lip
Singularlip
Plurallips

Sample Sentences

  • […]thine owne lippes teſtifie againſt thee. [1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Job 15:6, column 1:]
  • […]I twiſted my thighs, ſqueezed, and compreſs’d the lips of that virgin-ſlit[…] (Fanny Hill) [1749, [John Cleland], “[Letter the First]”, in Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure [Fanny Hill], volume I, London: […] [Thomas Parker] for G. Fenton [i.e., Fenton and Ralph Griffiths] […], →OCLC, pages 67–68:]
  • The cork sails over the garden wall and lands somewhere no one can see it. A crest of white spills over the lip of the bottle and Niall pours the wine into Elaine's glass. [2018, Sally Rooney, “Six Months Later (July 2013)”, in Normal People:]
  • Don’t give me any lip!
  • Kevin Sutherland: I've had enough of your lip! [2008 May 1, Damon Beesley, Iain Morris, The Inbetweeners, I:ii: “Bunk Off”,:]
  • Loose Tomato grew up tough. No one ever suspected that he was scared every time he walked down the street. Any lip and they got their ass kicked. [1977, Larry Mitchell, The Faggots & Their Friends Between Revolutions, Calamus Books; republished New York: Nightboat Books, 2020, →ISBN, page 97:]
  • We landed at the head of Garden Island, which is situated near the middle of the river and on the lip of the Falls. On reaching that lip, and peering over the giddy height, the wondrous and unique character of the magnificent cascade at once burst upon us. [1894, David Livingstone, “Chapter VII”, in A Popular Account of Dr Livingstone's Expedition to the Zambesi and its Tributaries:]
  • They toiled forward along a tiny path on the river’s lip. Suddenly it vanished. The bank was sheer red solid clay in front of them, sloping straight into the river. [1913, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, “Passion”, in Sons and Lovers, London: Duckworth & Co. […], →OCLC, part II, page 311:]
  • Looking to the east we could see Api and the mountains of west Nepal, shapely snow peaks in the distance, while in the immediate foreground, much lower but still dramatic, were the peaks of Panch Chuli IV and V (III was hidden by the lip of a huge cornice), Telkot and Nagling, all of them unclimbed, all steep and challenging. [1999, Harish Kapadia, “Ascents in the Panch Chuli Group”, in Across Peaks & Passes in Kumaun Himalaya, New Delhi: Indus Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 136:]
  • I put on some red lip and a casual print dress.

Etymology

1. 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”).
2. 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”),
3. Latin labium (“lip”). See: Middle English Nouns 'lippe', Old English Nouns 'lippa', Dutch Nouns 'lip', German Nouns 'Lippe', Danish Nouns 'læbe', Norwegian Bokmål Nouns 'leppe', Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns 'leppa', Swedish Nouns 'läpp', Latin Nouns 'labium'.

Verbs referencing "lip"

Latin Nouns labrum.