English

ad lip

Blend of ad lib + lip, from the association between lips and speech.

A blend of ad lib + lip

New Latin ad libitum ‘at one's pleasure, allowing freedom to improvise’

Proto-Indo-European *leb- ‘to hang loosely, droop, sag’

Proto-Germanic *lepô

Proto-West Germanic *lippjō

Old English lippa

Middle English lippe

English lip

Today it means

adj Eggcorn of ad lib.

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