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harelip

[ hair-lip ]

noun

  1. Usually Offensive. cleft lip.


harelip

/ ˈhɛəˌlɪp /

noun

  1. a congenital cleft or fissure in the midline of the upper lip, resembling the cleft upper lip of a hare, often occurring with cleft palate Preferred form cleft lip
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Sensitive Note

The term harelip is usually perceived as insulting because it compares the deformity in humans to the normal cleft lip of a hare. The accepted term for this medical condition is cleft lip.
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Derived Forms

  • ˈhareˌlipped, adjective
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Other Words From

  • harelipped adjective
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Word History and Origins

Origin of harelip1

First recorded in 1560–70; hare + lip
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Example Sentences

Harwood might treat her, as she said, like a step-child with a harelip, but occasionally she made him sit up.

Common illustrations of such deforming developmental accidents are harelip, cleft palate, and club foot.

Jean was even more illfavored, having a scar across his mouth which gave him an artificial harelip.

There is just the possibility that a contrivance like our harelip pin with a figure of eight thread may be indicated.

He was a man with a harelip and a pure heart, and everybody said he was as true as steel.

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