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sipping, vbl. n.|ˈsɪpɪŋ|
[f. sip v. + -ing1.]
1. The action of the vb.; drinking by sips; also, a single act of this; a quantity taken at a sip.
c1440Promp. Parv. 78 Cyppynge of drynke, subbibitura. 1483Vulgaria 15 b, See now wyth their syppynge what wyne thei haue dronken. 1534More Comf. agst. Trib. iii. xxvi. (1847) 306 The little sipping that our hearts should have here now. 1597J. Payne Royal Exch. 6 O praye for a fore taste and sum sippinge of this greate supper. 1611Cotgr., Piaison, a bibbing, sipping, tipling. 1617Moryson Itin. iii. 89 The Weomen of Germany have a custome to helpe their..Friends, by sipping of the cup. 1822–7Good Study Med. (1829) I. 187 A little toast and water alone, taken in small sippings. 1826F. Reynolds Life & Times I. 34 The sipping and gurgling of tea.
transf.1886F. Harrison Ess. 211 How different this from the critic's sipping of new books! 1891M. M. Dowie Girl in Karp. 219 Her aprons were darker than in the other villages of my sipping.
b. attrib. and Comb., as sipping-drink, etc.
1589Nashe Anat. Absurd. Wks. (Grosart) I. 61 May not a man as soone surfet by eating a whole sheepe..as by the sipping taste of sundry dainties? 1648Hexham ii, Een..Zuyp-dranck,..a Sipping-drinke. 1821Scott Kenilw. i, If you call on your host for help for such a sipping matter as a quart of sack. 1871Athenæum 26 Aug. 273 Perhaps their sipping disposition has something to do with their fall.
†2. = sippet n.2 1. Obs. rare.
1535Coverdale 2 Sam. xiii. 6 Let my sister..make me a syppynge or two, and that I maye eate it of hir hande. Ibid. 8 She toke floure,..and made him a syppynge. |