| 单词 | sipple |
| 释义 | sipple, v.|ˈsɪp(ə)l|
Also 6 syp-, 7 scipple.
[f. sip v. + -le 3.]
1. trans. To drink (liquor, etc.) slowly or by small sips; to sip up.
1566Drant Horace, Sat. i. iii. B v, The man doth sipple up the brothe. 1570Levins Manip. 141 To sypple, sorbillare. 1683G. M[eriton] Yorkshire Ale (1685) 7 At the first they did but sipple up This rare Ambrosia. 1748Smollett Rod. Rand. xlvi. (1817) II. 96 Improperly applied to the taking of coffee, inasmuch as people did not drink, but sip or sipple that liquor. 1832–53Whistle-Binkie Ser. i. 14, I had not learn'd to sipple tea.
2. intr. To sip liquor or the like leisurely.
1607Markham Caval. vii. (1617) 19 Distempered with heate.., which you shall plainely perceiue by his continuall desire to drinke and scipple. 1816Scott Antiq. ix, The body had got sic a trick of sippling and tippling wi' the bailies and deacons when they met. 1819― in Lockhart (1837) IV. ix. 294 You had better drink a bottle of wine on any particular occasion, than sit..and sipple at an English pint every day.
Hence ˈsippling vbl. n. Also attrib.
1601Holland Pliny xx. xxi. II. 72 The seed of Mallows..sodden in milk and taken after a sippling sort. 1681W. Robertson Phraseol. Gen. (1693) 1159 To spend all the day in sipling. 1687A. Lovell tr. Thevenot's Trav. I. 33 They all drink it sipping..; so that being in a Coffee-hane..one hears a pretty pleasant kind of sippling musick. |
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