blobberadj.
/ˈblɒbə/ Of the lips: Thick, swollen, protruding. Cf. blubber adj.
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the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > face > mouth > [adjective] > lip or lips > types of
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red-mouthed1838
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1670 J. Dryden & W. Davenant Shakespeare's Tempest iii. 38 My dear Blobber-lips; this, observe my Chuck, is a badge of my Sea-Office.
1685 J. Dryden tr. Lucretius Nature of Love in Sylvæ 89 Hanging blobber lips, but pout for kisses.
1818 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 3 282 Lazy streams of delight from their blobber lips falling.
Derivatives
blobber-lipped adj.
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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
1593 Passionate Morrice in Tell-Trothes New-yeares Gift (1876) 83 She was monstrous blobber lipt.
1681 N. Grew Musæum Regalis Societatis i. vi. ii. 148 A blobber-lipped shell seemeth to be a kind of mussel.
1692 R. L'Estrange Life Æsop i. 1 in Fables In his person deformed..Blobber-Lipp'd.
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