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"ref": "1906 February, A. Demain Grange, “Mr. Gummidge’s Little Deal: The Story of a Stradivarius”, in The Royal Magazine, volume XV, number 88, London: C[yril] Arthur Pearson Ltd, […], →OCLC, page 375, column 1",
"text": "His eyes were large and prominent, his mouth wide and lippy, and as he bent over his books he emitted sundry low growls and grunts, plainly indicating that his temper was none of the sweetest.",
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"(informal) Having prominent lips."
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"ref": "1998, Frank Chin, “A Chinaman in Singapore”, in Bulletproof Buddhists and Other Essays (Intersections), Honolulu, Hi.: University of Hawaiʻi Press in association with UCLA Asian American Studies Center […], page 409",
"text": "No, it's [Tamil is] a happy, snappy, lippy, and loping lingo anyone can see just makes these guys happy to speak and hear.",
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"ref": "1998, Dana Redfield, “Something in the Air”, in Lucy Blue and the Daughters of Light: A Novel, Charlottesville, Va.: Hampton Roads Publishing Company, page 120",
"text": "I hesitated another moment, then followed her with a vow that I would walk out the instant she got lippy. If she wanted to fire me, fine, I'd go, but I'd be damned if I'd let her lay any crap on me.",
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"ref": "2006, Ian Rankin, chapter 1, in The Naming of the Dead, London: Orion, side 1 (The Task of Blood)",
"text": "His silence conceded the point. Either she'd gotten lippier down the years, or he was getting rusty. Both, probably.",
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"ref": "2012, Bill Clegg, “Goners”, in Ninety Days: A Memoir of Recovery, New York, N.Y.: Little, Brown and Company",
"text": "In clothes, language, and manner, he's hip-hop ghetto meets Italian mobster. He's the lippiest, most foul-mouthed, most confrontational kid I've ever met and also one of the funniest.",
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"ref": "2016, Annie O’Neil, chapter 1, in Santiago’s Convenient Fiancée (Hot Latin Docs; 1), London: Mills & Boon; republished London: Mills & Boon, 2017",
"text": "Wouldn't it just be my luck to come across the lippiest desk nurse in the whole of Miami?",
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"word": "insolent"
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"word": "愛頂嘴的"
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"roman": "àidǐngzuǐde",
"sense": "having a tendency to talk back in a cheeky or impertinent manner",
"word": "爱顶嘴的"
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"word": "répondeur"
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"sense": "having a tendency to talk back in a cheeky or impertinent manner",
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"ref": "2007, D. M. Ross, chapter 12, in The Holy Bad, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Vanguard Press, page 52",
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"ref": "2008, Lynn Bertram, “The World of Motherhood”, in Supporting Postnatal Women Into Motherhood: A Guide to Therapeutic Groupwork for Health Professionals, Abingdon, Oxfordshire: Radcliffe Publishing, page 11",
"text": "I'm worried I'm turning into a 1950s housewife: the other day I found myself tidying up the sitting room and putting on some lippie before Tony got home from work!",
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"ref": "2008, Rachel Power, “Emma Matthews—Opera Singer”, in The Divided Heart: Art and Motherhood, Fitzroy, Vic.: Red Dog Books; republished Fitzroy, Vic.: Red Dog Books, 2012, page 159",
"text": "'Sorry—just trying on new lippies for tonight,' she confessed, flashing a crimson smile.",
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"ref": "2020 January 9, Annie Vischer, “Meghan Markle’s Latest Make-Up Look Decoded”, in Grazia, London: Bauer Consumer Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2020-01-10",
"text": "A russet shade of sheer lippy proved the finishing touch to Meghan's latest make-up look. It wasn't a full gloss, but appeared to have a balm-like finish, a pretty touch of shine.",
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"ref": "1742, Virgil, “Appendix to the Georgicks”, in James Hamilton, transl., Virgil’s Pastorals Translated into English Prose; as also His Georgicks, […], Edinburgh: Printed by W. Cheyne, […]; [s]old by J. Traill and G. Crawford, […]; and by J. Barry […], →OCLC, page 43",
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"ref": "1786, Daniel De Foe [i.e., Daniel Defoe], “Appendix. Part I. Containing an Account of Transactions in both Parts of the United Kingdoms, subsequent to the Union; […]”, in A History of the Union between England and Scotland, with a Collection of Original Papers Relating thereto. […], London: Printed for John Stockdale, […], →OCLC, page 600",
"text": "[T]he valuation of lands, tenor of leaſes, the rents, the entails, rent charges, life rents, and payments for or out of land revenue, are all reckoned in Scotland by the chalder, boll, firlot, and lippy, and cannot be altered; [...]",
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"text": "A miniſter's ſtipend is paid by the heritors as follows: James Speers pays 3 bolls 3 firlots 1 peck 3 lippies oats, 2 bolls barley, and L. 3 : 15 : 4; [...]",
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"ref": "1825 May, “Statistical Sketch of the Present State of the Established and Dissenting Churches in Scotland. Spring-meeting of the United Associate Synod 1825.”, in The Edinburgh Magazine, and Literary Miscellany, being a New Series of the Scots Magazine, volume XVI, Edinburgh: Printed [by J. Ruthven & Son] for Archibald Constable & Company, →OCLC, page 598, column 1",
"text": "You good Pastors, [...] you who can prevail upon your parishioners to pay the last lippy of your modified tithes, [...]",
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"ref": "1852, “BRUCE, Robert”, in Robert Chambers, editor, A Biographical Dictionary of Eminent Scotsmen, new edition, division II (Brown–Dalrymple), Glasgow, Edinburgh: Blackie and Son, →OCLC, page 365",
"text": "A Scotch barley boll contains 5 bushels, 3 pecks, 2 lippies, and a little more, according to the Winchester gallon. A Scotch barley boll, according to the legal measure, contains 6 bushels, wanting a little more than ½ lippie.",
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"ref": "1860, Thomas Pattieson, “The Smith and the Fairies”, in J[ohn] F[rancis] Campbell, transl., Popular Tales of the West Highlands: Orally Collected: With a Translation, volume II, Edinburgh: Edmonston and Douglas, →OCLC, page 61",
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"ref": "1871 March, “Three-quarters of a Century Ago. Fortingal.”, in The Poor Law Magazine and Journal of Public Health, volume IV, number IV (New Series), Glasgow: Published for the promoters by N. Adshead, […], →OCLC, page 290",
"text": "Now there are perhaps 24 hogsheads sown yearly, every tenant and crofter having from one to four lippies. The increase is about one stone from the lippie.",
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"ref": "1998, Dana Redfield, “Something in the Air”, in Lucy Blue and the Daughters of Light: A Novel, Charlottesville, Va.: Hampton Roads Publishing Company, page 120",
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"ref": "2006, Ian Rankin, chapter 1, in The Naming of the Dead, London: Orion, side 1 (The Task of Blood)",
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"ref": "2012, Bill Clegg, “Goners”, in Ninety Days: A Memoir of Recovery, New York, N.Y.: Little, Brown and Company",
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"ref": "2016, Annie O’Neil, chapter 1, in Santiago’s Convenient Fiancée (Hot Latin Docs; 1), London: Mills & Boon; republished London: Mills & Boon, 2017",
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"text": "Like some kind of masonic handshake, Collie passed Vanya a tube of black lippie. She smeared it carelessly across her wide mouth and handed it to me. My parents would have a hissy fit if they knew I put on lipstick but they weren't around.",
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"ref": "2008, Lynn Bertram, “The World of Motherhood”, in Supporting Postnatal Women Into Motherhood: A Guide to Therapeutic Groupwork for Health Professionals, Abingdon, Oxfordshire: Radcliffe Publishing, page 11",
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"ref": "2008, Rachel Power, “Emma Matthews—Opera Singer”, in The Divided Heart: Art and Motherhood, Fitzroy, Vic.: Red Dog Books; republished Fitzroy, Vic.: Red Dog Books, 2012, page 159",
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"ref": "2020 January 9, Annie Vischer, “Meghan Markle’s Latest Make-Up Look Decoded”, in Grazia, London: Bauer Consumer Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2020-01-10",
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"text": "A Scotch barley boll contains 5 bushels, 3 pecks, 2 lippies, and a little more, according to the Winchester gallon. A Scotch barley boll, according to the legal measure, contains 6 bushels, wanting a little more than ½ lippie.",
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"ref": "1871 March, “Three-quarters of a Century Ago. Fortingal.”, in The Poor Law Magazine and Journal of Public Health, volume IV, number IV (New Series), Glasgow: Published for the promoters by N. Adshead, […], →OCLC, page 290",
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