▪ I. lippy, lippie, n. Sc.
(ˈlɪpɪ)
Also 7 leippie.
[dim. of leap n.2]
The fourth part of a peck; in goods sold by weight usually 13/4 lb.
| 1612 in Rec. Convent. Roy. Burghs (1870) II. 374 To tak na mair for furlett, pek, and leippie, fra the burrowes bot fourty merk in tyme cumming. a 1693 Urquhart's Rabelais iii. xviii, There shall her justum both in Peck and Lippy be furnish'd to the full eternally. 1725 Newburgh Council Rec. in Laing Lindores Abbey etc., xxiv. (1876) 310 All conserned ar to pay the said herd ffor ilk beast off Coū six lippies off good and sufficient bear. 1743 R. Maxwell Sel. Trans. 272 Give each Beast twice a Day, Morning and Evening,..a Lippy and a half..Linlithgow Measure, of the best Oats. 1796 Statist. Acc. Scot. XVII. 464 The return of lint is commonly a stone of flax from the lippie. 1868 Perthsh. Jrnl. 18 June, We lately heard of some being caught after roosting whose stomachs were found to contain one-fourth of an imperial lippy of grain. 1896 Barrie Marg. Ogilvy iv. (1897) 65, I was sounded as to the advisability of sending him a present of a lippie of shortbread. |
b. A measure or vessel holding this quantity.
| 1847–8 H. Miller First Impr. xi. (1857) 168 A measure, much like what in Scotland we would term a meal lippy. |
c. Comb.: lippy('s-bound(s, the space of ground required for sowing a ‘lippy’ of flax-seed.
In some districts = 100 square yards.
| 1876 Laing Lindores Abbey etc., xxiii. 300 Domestic servants had a small patch (two lippies-bounds, equal to about five and a half poles) allotted to them. |
▪ II. lippy, n.2 colloq. (orig. Austral., later also Brit., and N.Z.).
Brit. /ˈlɪpi/, U.S. /ˈlɪpi/, Austral. /ˈlɪpi/
Forms: 19– lippie, 19– lippy
[‹ lip n. + -y suffix6, after lipstick n.]
Lipstick.
| 1955 Meanjin 310 Jest..for fun I put some of Mums [sic] lippy on. 1971 Sunday Austral. 8 Aug. 45/6 Typical dolly birds who doodah themselves up with red lippy and curly hair. 1983 Sydney Morning Herald 19 Dec. (Guide) 1/2 On radio, Miss Buttrose sounds as though she is wearing a sunfrock, bit of lippie and a pair of orthopaedic sandals. 1991 Sun 7 Feb. 13/5 He loves dressing up and wearing makeup. He also likes a bit of lippy. 2000 R. Topping Kevin & Perry go Large iv. 37 Sharon stashed the new lippy in her bag, and the girls walked out of Boots into the shopping mall. |
▪ III. lippy, a.
(ˈlɪpɪ)
[f. lip n. + -y.]
1. Of a dog (see quot.).
| 1877 G. Stables Pract. Kennel Guide iii. 35 Lippy—applied to hanging lips of some dogs where hanging lips should not exist, as in the Bull Terrier. |
2. colloq. or dial. Impertinent, insolent; talkative, verbose.
| 1875 W. D. Parish Dict. Sussex Dial. 70 Lippy, impertinent; apt to answer saucily. 1893 W. K. Post Harvard Stories 195 Ain't he getting pretty flip? The lippy dude! 1906 Punch 4 Apr. 250/3 'Aughty as teetotallers an' as lippy as Passive Resisters. 1968 V. Canning Melting Man v. 128 You're a lippy bastard. 1971 R. Roberts Classic Slum 203 Any child who requested a book by title he at once designated as ‘forward’ or ‘lippy’. 1971 R. Thomas Backup Men iv. 32 It might learn them not to be so goddamned lippy. |