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Overlit vs Overlip - What's the difference?

overlit | overlip |

As a verb overlit

is (overlight).

As a noun overlip is

the upper lip.

overlit

English

Verb

(head)
  • (overlight)

    • overlight

    English

    Verb

  • To illuminate too brightly.
  • *{{quote-news, year=2007, date=July 15, author=Andy Newman, title=In Hospital Scrubs and Officer’s Blues, a Kinship, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=Dozens of times over the next two years, Officer Yan’s work brought him through the sliding glass doors into the overlit clamor of Kings County’s emergency room, one of the busiest in the city. }}

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (dated) Too light or frivolous; giddy.

    • Noun

  • excessive light
  • * Francis Bacon
    • An overlight maketh the eyes dazzle .

    overlip

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The upper lip.
    • (Chaucer)
  • * 2010 , John Banville, The Infinities (ISBN 0307592871):
    • They seem to her still so young, hardly more than children, really, even Adam—especially Adam—with that babyishly fat overlip that trembles so when he is excited or upset.
  • * 2014 , Samuel R. Delany, Tales of Nevèrÿon (ISBN 1480461733):
    • His eyes were closed, his mouth opened. His breathing, irregular for three, then four, then five breaths, returned to its normal, soundless rhythm. Stubbled overlip and wet underlip moved about some final, silent word:

    • Coordinate terms

    * underlip

    References

    * * Encyclopedia of K9 Terminology (2013, ISBN 1617811351): An overlip occurs when the upper lip extends over and obscures the chin.