Meaning

2 senses

  1. (Northern England, Scotland, UK, dialectal, transitive)To entrust; trust to (someone/something).

  2. (Northern England, Scotland, UK, dialectal, intransitive)To trust; to expect; to depend or rely (on).

    Do not lippen to him! / I was lippening on you.

Origin

From Middle English lipnen (“to trust”), of obscure origin. Perhaps an alteration of Middl

From Middle English lipnen (“to trust”), of obscure origin. Perhaps an alteration of Middle English litnen (“to trust”), of North Germanic origin, from Old Norse hlíta, compare Swedish lita (“to trust, depend, rely on”).

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Forms

lippens, lippening, lippened, lippened
Base formlippen · to lippen
3rd person singularlippens
Present participlelippening
Past simplelippened
Past participlelippened

irregular

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theylippen
he, she, itlippens

Past simpleLesson

all personslippened

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave lippened
he, she, ithas lippened

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill lippen

Word family

2 related words
Derivedlippeningmislippen

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
lionesslipA2lipidlipstickliquefyliqueur
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