Source etymology 1
Original entry ↗Having prominent lips. · Having a tendency to talk back in a cheeky or impertinent manner.
From lip (“fleshy protrusion around the opening of the mouth; (slang) verbal impertinence, backtalk”) + -y (suffix forming adjectives with the sense of ‘having the quality of’).
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