lippen
Americanverb (used with object)
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to trust (a person).
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to entrust (something) to a person.
verb (used without object)
Etymology
Origin of lippen
1125–75; Middle English lipnen, earlier lipnien
Example Sentences
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But dinna ye lippen to Jean, Malcolm—na, na!
From Malcolm by George MacDonald
"Ye're an honest man, Wull—but I wadna lippen a snuff mull 'at had mair nor ae pinch intill 't wi' yon cooard cratur ahin' ye."
From Malcolm by George MacDonald
We lippen on yin anither in a quiet kind o' a wey, ye ken—never askin' or demandin', but aye expectin', an' aye gettin'.
From Betty Grier by Joseph Laing Waugh
She's aye gabbin', an' claikin', an' cognostin' wi' the enemy, an' I canna lippen till her.
From Malcolm by George MacDonald
Lie in your bed and lippen to that.
From The Proverbs of Scotland by Alexander Hislop
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