different between underslip vs underlip

English

Etymology

under- +? slip

Noun

underslip (plural underslips)

1. A woman's undergarment.
2. (ceramics) An underlying layer of slip.
   • 2011, Walter R. T. Witschey, Clifford T. Brown, Historical Dictionary of Mesoamerica (page 336)

     The designs in the slip appear to have been created through a negative resist technique, in which a lighter-colored underslip shows through a darker overlying slip.

Anagrams

• underlips

English

Etymology

From under- +? lip. Compare Saterland Frisian Unnerlippe (“underlip”), German Unterlippe (“underlip”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /??nd?(?)?l?p/
• (US) IPA^(key): /??nd??l?p/

Noun

underlip (plural underlips)

1. The lower lip.
   • 2014, Samuel R. Delany, Tales of Nevèrÿon ?ISBN:

     His eyes were closed, his mouth opened. His breathing, irregular for three, then four, then five breaths, returned to its normal, soundless rhythm. Stubbled overlip and wet underlip moved about some final, silent word: […]

Coordinate terms

• overlip

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