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Lipped vs Dipped - What's the difference?

lipped | dipped |

As adjectives the difference between lipped and dipped

is that lipped is having a raised lip while dipped is that has been briefly immersed in a liquid.

As a verb dipped is

(dip).

lipped

English

Adjective

(-)
  • having a raised lip
  • (in combination) having some specific type of lip
    • We met a yellow-lipped woman.

    Derived terms

    * tight-lipped

    dipped

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (dip)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • That has been briefly immersed in a liquid.
  • Of headlights: lowered.
  • (archaic, colloquial) Caught up in debt; mortgaged.
  • *1705 , (Bernard Mandeville), The Fable of the Bees :
  • *:The Lawyers [...] Opposed all Registers, that Cheats / Might make more Work with dipt Estates [...].