different between slippy vs lippy

English

Etymology

From slip +? -y. Compare Old English slipi? (“slippy, slimy, viscid”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?sl?pi/
• Rhymes: -?pi

Adjective

slippy (comparative slippier, superlative slippiest)

1. (slightly informal) Slippery.
   • 1922, James Joyce, Ulysses Chapter 13

     It was darker now and there were stones and bits of wood on the strand and slippy seaweed.

2. (dialect, dated) Spry, nimble.
   • 1913, D.H. Lawrence, Sons and Lovers, chapter 5

     Well, come on then, let's look slippy.

Derived terms

• slippy map

Anagrams

• Lippys

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American, General Australian) IPA^(key): /?l?pi/
• (Scotland) IPA^(key): /?l?p?/
• Rhymes: -?pi
• Hyphenation: lip?py

Etymology 1

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’).

Adjective

lippy (comparative lippier, superlative lippiest)

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

   Synonym: contrarious

Derived terms

• lippiness

Translations

Etymology 2

From lip(stick) or lip (gloss) +? -y (diminutive suffix).

Noun

lippy (countable and uncountable, plural lippies) (originally Australia, now also Britain, New Zealand, colloquial)

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

Alternative forms

• lippie

Translations

Etymology 3

From leap (“trap or snare for fish made from twigs; (obsolete) basket”) +? -y (diminutive suffix).

Noun

lippy (plural lippies)

1. (Scotland, historical) 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.

   Synonym: forpet

Alternative forms

• lippie

Translations

References

Further reading

• lip gloss on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• lipstick on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• lippy (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia