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lipstick, n.|ˈlɪpstɪk|
Also lip stick, lip-stick.
[f. lip n. + stick n.1 8.]
A stick of cosmetic for colouring the lips, usu. a shade of pink or red; hence, cosmetic for the lips. Also attrib.
1880E. James Amat. Negro Minstrel's Guide 4 Prepared burnt cork, ready for use, 25 and 50 cents per box; lip sticks, 25 cts. Ibid. 8 An application of lipstick..around the natural part of the lips will extend that feature to a size quite remarkable. 1919H. L. Wilson Ma Pettengill iii. 93 Metta was even using a lip stick! 1922A. Bennett Lilian ii. vii. 116 She also knew what was the best lip⁓stick. 1926Spectator 18 Sept. 435/2 What is the matter with powder, paint and lipstick? 1942D. Powell Time to be Born x. 222 She applied a lipstick brush tenderly. 1962F. I. Ordway et al. Basic Astronautics xiii. 521 Many are packaged in..devices resembling lipstick cases. 1966Auden About House 46 Spotless rooms..Chill me, so do cups used for ashtrays or smeared With lipstick. 1973Country Life 20 Sept. 831/2, I liked..the clear colours and good texture of the lipsticks. 1974‘J. Ross’ Burning of Billy Toober xii. 113 There were two gilt lipstick cases.
Hence ˈlipstick v. trans. and intr., to apply lipstick to (one's lips); ˈlipsticked ppl. a.; ˈlipsticking vbl. n.; ˈlipsticky a., covered or sticky with lipstick; also fig.
1926Ladies' Home Jrnl. Apr. 24 She..had recently lipsticked a red mouth into startling contrast to her natural pallor. 1928Sunday Express 15 Apr. 15/4 She may be made of wax, with large, liquid eyes, a lipsticked mouth, and real hair. 1931Daily Tel. 21 May 13/3 They chatted, smoked, ‘lipsticked’, read, sewed, [etc.]. 1931Punch 28 Oct. 476/3 Her chronicle of minor adventures, if occasionally a shade too lip-sticky for all tastes, is thoroughly vivacious and entertaining. 1933J. B. Priestley Wonder Hero vi. 249 The first thing she did was to give Charlie a large smacking lip-sticky kiss. 1940A. G. Macdonell Crew of Anaconda xxi. 260 Florinda did a little powdering and lipsticking. 1949Landfall June 183 The lipsticky essays of her daughter into informed adolescence. 196020th Cent. Oct. 313 She would open her handbag, lipstick her mouth, and go home. 1966J. B. Priestley Salt is Leaving i. 5 Sheila stopped lipsticking. 1969Daily Tel. (Colour Suppl.) 5 Sept. 46/3 My eyes are still wandering over that lip-sticked mouth. 1974Listener 17 June 69/1 Jonathan Miller used to imagine the BBC as an actual aunt, powdered and lipsticked and getting on in years.
▸ lipstick lesbian n. colloq. (orig. U.S. and sometimes derogatory) a lesbian of glamorous or manifestly feminine appearance and behaviour.
1984A. Maupin Babycakes ix. 40 Her ‘character lines’ made her begin to wonder if there was such a thing as too much character... Was it time to relent, to throw in the towel and become a *lipstick lesbian? 1994This Mag. (Toronto, Ont.) Nov. 12 All these gorgeous women are getting into it, from the elegant lipstick lesbians to the post-punk baby dykes. 2000Daily Record (Glasgow) (Electronic ed.) 21 Oct. One minute she is a glam high-flying gun toting gangster's moll, the next she is a lipstick lesbian in a nasty blue uniform selling ciggies on a garage forecourt.
lipstick lesbianism n.
1993Evening Standard (Nexis) 9 Nov. 25 kd lang, Nashville's first lady of *lipstick lesbianism. 1995Daily Tel. 16 May 19/6 Ever since pretty young Beth Jordache first kissed her lady tutor on Brookside, gay girls have become rather fashionable..and the opportunity to write about ‘lipstick lesbianism’ and ‘designer dykes’ has not gone unseized. 2001Sunday Herald (Glasgow) 1 Oct. (Directory) 6/4 The current vogue for lipstick lesbianism, which sees apparently straight stars..dabbling on-screen in same-sex snogging. |
