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单词 sipper
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sippern.

Brit. /ˈsɪpə/, U.S. /ˈsɪpər/
Etymology: < sip v. + -er suffix1.
One who sips; hence, a drinker or toper.
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1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Piailleur, a bibber, sipper, wine-swiller.
1631 B. Jonson Bartholmew Fayre iii. ii. 35 in Wks. II They are all sippers, sippers o' the City, they looke as they would not drinke off two penn'orth of bottle-ale amongst 'hem.
1702 E. Baynard Cold Baths (1709) ii. 381 Sippers of Brandy and spirituous distill'd Liquors.
1806 T. S. Surr Winter in London II. x. 233 Only look..at the difference of beef steak breakfasters, and the sippers of souchong!
1867 G. Meredith Vittoria I. viii. 111 I promised my Rosellina, my poppy-headed sipper, a red-wine evening.
1891 Leeds Mercury 27 May 5/2 Half a dozen gentlemen..sipping tea..; each sipper wears a tall hat.
figurative.1850 J. McCosh Method Divine Govt. (ed. 2) ii. ii. 217 He is probably an idle dreamer, or a sipper of the sweets of literature.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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