a. Having thick or full lips.
c. 1529. Skelton, E. Rummyng, 467. She was vgly hypped, And vgly thycke lypped.
1588. Shaks., Tit. A., IV. ii. 175. Come on you thick-lipt-slaue.
1682. Lond. Gaz., No. 1685/4. John Wilmote, of a pretty Ruddy Complexion, and somthing thick Lipped.
1838. Johnston, in Proc. Berw. Nat. Club, I. No. 6. 171. Mugil chelo, the Thick-lipped Grey Mullet.
1867. Baker, Nile Tribut., xx. (1872), 352. A real thick-lipped flat-nosed nigger.
So Thick-lips, one who has thick lips; a contemptuous appellation for a negro.
1604. Shaks., Oth., I. i. 66. What a full Fortune dos the Thicks-lips owe If he can carryt thus?