Mimp

Sure you muſt have obſerved the drop of the under lip is exploded ſince Lady Simpermode broke a tooth—(Sets her mouth affectedly)—I am preparing the caſt of the lips for the enſuing winter—thus—It is to be call’d the Paphian mimp.

The Paphian mimp was a certain pucker of the lips considered needful for the highly genteel.

My working hunch was that the very young leopard frog tadpole would make a near-perfect donor. […] While he’s little, he’ll mimp-mouth algae from the flanks of a tubifex and harm nothing but a little vermigrade pride.

The Beaux alter’d Creatures, Now mimp up their Features, And trip it, and trip it ſo pretty; […]

When firſt ſhe emerged from retirement, it was natural ſhe ſhould feel ſhy and embarraſſed, which always appeared by a certain mimping with her mouth; afterwards ſhe thought it becoming , and improved upon it: It was ſo univerſally adopted by the young Ladies of the ton, that I think it incumbent on myſelf to give a particular account of this grace for the benefit of thoſe who have no opportunities of ſeeing it practiſed.

By God, I c’n hear him, see him, too. Put on that pious look, mimp up his lips.