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▪ I. † ˈsippet, n.1 Obs. rare.
Also 6 syppet.
[Cf. sip n. and -et1.]
A little sip.
a1529Skelton E. Rummyng 367 Here is an olde typpet, And ye wyll gyue me a syppet Of your stale ale. 1574Hellowes Gueuara's Fam. Ep. (1577) 98 Shee drinketh..but water mixed with wine: in such wise, that with her sippets none may..kill his thirst.
▪ II. sippet, n.2|ˈsɪpɪt|
Also 6–7 syppet, 7 sippit, -ett, cippet.
[app. intended as a diminutive of sop n. Cf. supett in the earlier Wycl. version 2 Sam. xiii. 8.]
1. A small piece of toasted or fried bread, usually served in soup or broth, or with meat, or used for dipping into gravy, etc.; a small sop.
1530Palsgr. 270/2 Syppet a lytell soppe, tatin. 1600Surflet Countrie Farme v. xxi. 720 Some do make sippets or small slices (as they call them) of bread dried vpon the coales. a1655Sir T. T. de Mayerne Archimag. Anglo-Gall. No. 47 (1658) 41 Serve it up with brown bread, and sippets fryed with butter. 1693Crowne Country Wit iii. iii, See that the mutton broath have white bread sippets in it. 1747–96H. Glasse Cookery v. 42 Lay round them stewed spinage pressed and cut like little sippets. 1764E. Moxon Eng. Housew. (ed. 9) 71 When you dish it up take off the lid, and..cut the lid in sippets. 1826Polwhele Trad. & Recoll. I. 139 The fresh boiled round of beef, with onions and sippets, welcomed my arrival. 1843Tait's Mag. X. 142 Having leisurely buttered his sippets of crisp dry toast. 1887Fenn Master Cerem. iii, She threw some of the sippets in, and began tasting the broth in an unpleasant way.
b. transf. A small piece of something; a mere fragment.
1613Beaum. & Fl. Captain iv. iii, Come pre'thee leave this sadness,..This mumps, this Lachrymæ, this love in sippets. 1647J. C[leveland] Char. Lond. Diurn. 1 It is an History in Sippets; the English Iliads in a Nut-shell. 1751Ld. Cobham in Walpole Geo. II (1822) I. v. 117 He did not like cutting the government out into sippets. 1761Colman Prose on Sev. Occas. (1787) I. 83 A vast variety of thin volumes, containing certain sippets of philosophy, morality, and the arts. 1888Athenæum 30 June 822/2 Those fragments are portions of a whole.., not [to be] doled out in literary sippets.
2. attrib. and Comb., as sippet-brewis, sippet-pudding, sippet-shaped.
1653Urquhart Rabelais i. xxi, Store of good minced meat, and a great deal of sippet-brewis. 1830R. Dolby Cook's Dict. 452/2 Sippet Pudding.—Cut a small loaf into extremely thin slices [etc.]. 1837Barham Ingol. Leg. Ser. i. Leech of Folkestone (1905) 74 The occasional presentation of a sippet-shaped billet-doux.
Hence ˈsippet v., to cut into sippets. rare.
1681J. Chetham Angler's Vade-m. xxxix. §6 (1689) 257 Sippet it and garnish the dish. |