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Netherlip

noun

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The lower lip.

    "Looby's face grew pale, and his netherlip began to tremble; the patient was dismayed, and the old gentlewoman concerned and perplexed."

  2. 2
    singular of netherlips form-of, singular

Etymology

Etymology 1

From nether- + lip, modelled after lower lip. Compare Old Frisian nitherlippa (“lower lip”), German Niederlippe (“lower lip”).

Etymology 2

From netherlips.

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