English
lipwork
From lip + -work.
Formed from lip + -work
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
noun Synonym of lip service (“promising but empty talk; words absent of real action or intention”).
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / lipwork