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单词 red-lipped
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red-lippedadj.

Brit. /ˌrɛdˈlɪpt/, U.S. /ˈrɛdˌlɪpt/
Forms: see red adj. and n. and lipped adj.
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: red adj., lipped adj.
Etymology: < red adj. + lipped adj.
1. That has or is characterized by red lips (in various senses of lip n.). Also figurative.
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the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > face > mouth > [adjective] > lip or lips > types of
babber-lippedc1400
blab-lippedc1430
blabber-lipped1483
thick-lippeda1529
blobber-lipped1593
blub1603
red-lipped1605
rose-lippeda1616
blubbered1634
sweet-lippeda1644
labrous1656
blobber1670
blubber1677
blubber-lipped1690
red-mouthed1838
blubberous1863
semihiant1873
slobber1895
labrose1905
1605 London Prodigall sig. C3v Marry ile tell you, by promising yong Flowerdale the red lipped Luce.
1620 T. Shelton tr. M. de Cervantes 2nd Pt. Don Quixote xxiii. 151 Shee was somewhat beetle-brow'd, flatte-nosed, wide mouth'd, but redde-lipped.
1795 S. J. Pratt Gleanings through Wales I. v. 32 The damsels as well featured a race of white toothed, black-eyed, red lipped lasses, as in any part of the world.
1820 J. Keats Fancy in Lamia & Other Poems 122 Autumn's red-lipp'd fruitage too.
1881 O. Wilde Poems 70 An amorous red-lipped boy.
1894 Jrnl. Amer. Folklore 7 252 Certain mosses and lichens..were called fairies' rings, or carpets, and the red-lipped, wine-glass shaped lichens were supposed to be their drinking cups.
1922 T. Hardy Late Lyrics & Earlier 284 And ye, red-lipped and smooth-browed; list, Gentlemen; Much is there waits you we have missed.
1970 Times 1 July 11/4 She is not, she said, smiling her charming, heavily red lipped smile, purposely enigmatic.
1998 New Yorker 20 July 79/2 No one could watch a Macaulay Culkin picture..without wanting to ship the red-lipped hero to a Gulag and make him eat sleet for seven years.
2. In the names of animals having red coloration around the mouth (see also Compounds).
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1910 F. W. Fitzsimons Snakes S. Afr. iii. 57/2 The Red-lipped or Herald Snake..is one of the best-known and most widespread snakes in Africa.
1967 S. M. A. Lowe Hungry Veld 102 Hope to God it's not a puff adder or a night adder... I'll suck the bite for safety, but I think it is just a red lipped herald.
1992 Gen. & Compar. Endocrinol. 88 461 This study investigated the influence of sex steroids on the expression of seasonally labile and sexually dimorphic coloration in the red-lipped plateau lizard.
2004 Sport Diver Aug. 56/1 ‘I'd like to see the red-lipped batfish.’‘Oh, we can't promise that.’

Compounds

red-lipped snake n. chiefly South African the herald snake, Crotaphopeltis hotamboeia, esp. the typical South African form which has a bright red upper lip.
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1910*Red-lipped snake [see sense 2].
1947 J. Stevenson-Hamilton Wild Life S. Afr. xxxvi. 330 The red-lipped or herald snake (Leptodira hotamboea).—This is distinguished by its upper lip being of bright red colour.
2004 Daily Record (Glasgow) 28 Apr. (Off the Record) Mr Clarke had also compared..the lord chancellor to a red-lipped snake.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

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red-lipped
1. Having or furnished with a lip or lips; having lips of a specified kind. Often in parasynthetic combinations, as blubber-lipped, red-lipped, thick-lipped.
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the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > face > mouth > [adjective] > lip or lips
lipped1377
labial1602
labiolingual1865
the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > edge, border, or margin > [adjective] > having an edge or border > of specific kind
skirted1608
rimmed1641
edged1776
lipped1844
1377 W. Langland Piers Plowman B. v. 190 He was bitelbrowed · and baberlipped also.
c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 20 Babbyrlyppyd, labrosus.
1593 Passionate Morrice in Tell-Trothes New-yeares Gift (1876) 83 She was monstrous blobber lipt.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Othello (1622) iv. ii. 65 Thy young and rose-lip'd Cherubin. View more context for this quotation
1755 S. Johnson Dict. Eng. Lang. Lipped, having lips.
1820 J. Keats Lamia i, in Lamia & Other Poems 14 A virgin purest lipp'd.
1844 N. P. Willis Lady Jane i. 644 Lamps conceal'd in bells of alabaster, Lipp'd like a lily.
1851 Beck's Florist 133 Stalk..inserted in a small, sometimes a lipped, hollow.
c1865 J. Wylde Circle of Sci. I. 403/2 A lipped vessel should..be used.
1897 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. II. 1058 The filaridæ are long filiform worms with a lipped, a papillated, or a simple mouth.
1897 M. Kingsley Trav. W. Afr. 72 Delicate little nostrils, mouths not too heavily lipped.
1902 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 12 Apr. 879 The synovial membrane was found rather inflamed, and the edges of the cartilages were lipped.
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adj.1605
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