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ˈover-ˈlip Now dial.
[Orig. two words; in ME. overe lippe:—*ufera lippa (cf. niðera lippa), mod. dial. uvver lip, but from 1400 often conjoined, or in later use hyphened. Cf. Ger. oberlippe.]
The upper lip.
c1325Gloss W. de Bibbesw. in Wright Voc. 146 La bas levere et la levere suseyne, the overe lippe ant the nethere. c1386Chaucer Prol. 133 Hire ouer [Camb. ouere] lippe [Harl. overlippe] wyped she so clene. 1480Caxton Descr. Brit. 37 Noble fruyt hangyng downe to the ouer lyppe. 1788W. Marshall E. Yorksh. II. Gloss. (E.D.S.), Uvver, upper; as ‘the uvver lip’. 1881G. F. Jackson Shropsh. Word-bk. s.v., 'Er uvver-lip's swelled as big as two. |