lipped

[ lipt ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

adjective

-lipped

Origin of lipped¹

Middle English word dating back to 1350–1400; lip, -ed ³

Major League Baseball, though, is still being tight-lipped about what the end of the embargo might mean for the sport.

Missy also gets a bit tight-lipped when it comes to her personal life.

Get past the fauxhawk, and you find soulful eyes and a bright thin-lipped smile that say, “You can trust me.”

The actress is tight-lipped about the final season of ‘Mad Men.’

Everybody involved in assisting the Malaysians has been very tight-lipped about what is going on.

She carried a broken-lipped jug, and was on her way to the shop which was at least the second cause of all her woes.

He had a roundish face, a little fleshy under the chin, a soft-lipped mouth that from habit he held slightly pursed, muddy eyes.

For Laura still sat at her writing-table, labouring over a paragraph, white lipped and heavy eyed.

"I guess I'm not a very—good business manager," faltered the red-lipped voice with incongruous pathos.

Most of these were workmen of some kind or other, called in to help the lab crew as needed, but all of them were tight-lipped.

April 19, 2024tortuous

[tawr-choo-uhs ]

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