单词 | sipping |
释义 | sippingn. 1. a. The action of the verb; drinking by sips; also, a single act of this; a quantity taken at a sip. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > drinking > [noun] > sipping or supping suppinga1400 sippingc1440 sippling1601 sip1633 c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 78 Cyppynge of drynke, subbibitura. 1483 Vulgaria abs Terencio (T. Rood & T. Hunte) sig. ovii See now wyth their syppynge what wyne thei haue dronken. a1535 T. More Dialoge of Comfort (1553) iii. xxvi. sig. U.iiiiv The little sipping that our heartes should haue here nowe. 1597 J. Payne Royall Exchange 6 O praye for a fore taste and sum sippinge of this greate supper. 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Piaison, a bibbing, sipping, tipling. 1617 F. Moryson Itinerary iii. 89 The Weomen of Germany have a custome to helpe their..Friends, by sipping of the cup. 1822 J. M. Good Study Med. I. 146 A little toast-and-water alone, taken in small sippings. 1826 F. Reynolds Life & Times I. 34 The sipping and gurgling of tea. b. In extended use. ΚΠ 1886 F. Harrison Ess. 211 How different this from the critic's sipping of new books! 1891 M. M. Dowie Girl in Karpathians 219 Her aprons were darker than in the other villages of my sipping. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > bread > bread dish > [noun] > sops > a sop sopa1000 wine-sop14.. milksopa1475 water-sopa1500 honeysop?a1513 sippet1530 sipping1535 sup1543 miser1594 sop in the pana1625 joy-sop1648 soppet1664 1535 Bible (Coverdale) 2 Sam. xiii. 6 Let my sister..make me a syppynge or two, and that I maye eate it of hir hande. 1535 Bible (Coverdale) 2 Sam. xiii. 8 She toke floure,..and made him a syppynge. Compounds attributive and in other combinations, as sipping-drink, etc. ΚΠ 1589 T. Nashe Anat. Absurditie sig. Diiiiv May not a man as soone surfet by eating a whole sheepe..as by the sipping taste of sundry dainties. 1648 H. Hexham Groot Woorden-boeck Een Zuypen..ofte Zuyp-dranck,..a Sipping-drinke. 1821 W. Scott Kenilworth I. i. 6 If you call on your host for help for such a sipping matter as a quart of sack. 1871 Athenæum 26 Aug. 273 Perhaps their sipping disposition has something to do with their fall. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online June 2021). > as lemmasˈsipping ˈsipping adj. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > drinking > [adjective] > sipping sipping1670 1670 J. Eachard Grounds Contempt of Clergy 31 That would much better fit some old soker..than his sipping..Bibbership. 1871 N. Sheppard Shut up in Paris 246 This sip, sip, sipping race have been devoured by a race which does nothing by sips. 1898 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. V. 993 Then peptonized milk..may be swallowed in sipping fashion. < n.c1440 as lemmas |
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