sip

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See also: Sip, SIP, -sip, síp, Síp, şip, šíp, and сип

English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Middle English sippen, of uncertain origin. Compare with Low German sippen (“to sip”). Possibly from a variant of Middle English suppen (“to drink, sip”) (see sup) or perhaps from Old English sipian, sypian (“to take in moisture, soak, macerate”), from Proto-Germanic *sipōną (“to drip, trickle”), from Proto-Indo-European *seyb- (“to pour out, trickle, leak out”). Compare also Old High German supfen (“to drink, sip”), from Proto-Germanic *sūpaną (“to sip, intake”).

Pronunciation[edit]

  • enPR: sĭp, IPA(key): /sɪp/
    • Audio (Southern England)(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɪp

Noun[edit]

sip (plural sips)

  1. A small mouthful of drink
  2. An event at which people drink alcohol in small, usually sub-intoxicating amounts.
    • 1985 April 20, Joseph Beam, “Black Men Loving Black Men: The Revolutionary Act of the Eighties”, in Gay Community News, page 5:
      Earl is always a good time. His appearance at parties, whether it's a smart cocktail sip or a basement gig, is mandatory.

Translations[edit]

Verb[edit]

sip (third-person singular simple present sips, present participle sipping, simple past and past participle sipped)

  1. (transitive) To drink slowly, small mouthfuls at a time.
    • 1898, J. Meade Falkner, chapter 5, in Moonfleet, London, Toronto, Ont.: Jonathan Cape, published 1934:
      He held out to me a bowl of steaming broth, that filled the room with a savour sweeter, ten thousand times, to me than every rose and lily of the world; yet would not let me drink it at a gulp, but made me sip it with a spoon like any baby.
    • 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 5, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:
      A waiter brought his aperitif, which was a small scotch and soda, and as he sipped it gratefully he sighed.
    • 2013 August 3, “Revenge of the nerds”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8847:
      bright young things in jeans and T-shirts huddle around laptops, sipping lattes or munching on free food.
  2. (intransitive) To drink a small quantity.
    • 1697, Virgil, “The Second Book of the Æneis”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:
      [She] rais'd it to her mouth with sober grace; / Then, sipping, offered to the next in place.
  3. To taste the liquor of; to drink out of.
    • 1697, Virgil, “The Fourth Book of the Georgics”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:
      They skim the floods, and sip the purple flowers.
  4. (Scotland, US, dated) Alternative form of seep
  5. (figurative) To consume slowly.
    • 1995, Richard North, Life on a Modern Planet: A Manifesto for Progress‎[1], Manchester University Press, →ISBN, page 80:
      Sales of lightbulbs which sip electricity, and whose increased cost in the shops is easily paid for over their lifetime, used to double every year; in 1990/1991, they leapt sevenfold.
    • 2008 July 3, “The presidential election: White men can vote”, in The Economist‎[2]:
      It makes a small car, the Chevy Cobalt, which sips petrol in moderation and is therefore selling well.
    • 2014 October 20, Erik Hyrkas, "Energy Vampires are Attacking Your Home – Here’s How to Stop Them" (Office of Energy Efficiency & Renewable Energy)
      Even when turned off, these devices can idly sip electricity from your outlet costing you money.

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Catalan[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Interjection[edit]

sip

  1. (informal) yep

Dutch[edit]

Etymology[edit]

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation[edit]

Adjective[edit]

sip (comparative sipper, superlative sipst)

  1. sad, subdued
    Synonyms: droevig, treurig

Inflection[edit]

Inflection of sip
uninflected sip
inflected sippe
comparative sipper
positive comparative superlative
predicative/adverbial sip sipper het sipst
het sipste
indefinite m./f. sing. sippe sippere sipste
n. sing. sip sipper sipste
plural sippe sippere sipste
definite sippe sippere sipste
partitive sips sippers —

Indonesian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From English safe, from Middle English sauf, safe, saf, saaf, from Old French sauf, saulf, salf (“safe”), from Latin salvus (“whole, safe”), from Proto-Indo-European *solh₂- (“whole, every”).

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): [ˈsɪp]
  • Hyphenation: sip

Adjective[edit]

sip

  1. (colloquial) safe.
    1. not in danger; out of harm's reach.
      Synonym: aman
    2. free from risk.
      Synonym: terjamin
    3. reliable.
      Synonyms: mantap, elok, baik, sempurna

Further reading[edit]

Irish[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From English zip.

Noun[edit]

sip f (genitive singular sipe, nominative plural sipeanna)

  1. zip, zipper, zip fastener

Declension[edit]

Declension of sip

Second declension

Bare forms

Case Singular Plural
Nominative sip sipeanna
Vocative a ship a shipeanna
Genitive sipe sipeanna
Dative sip sipeanna

Forms with the definite article

Case Singular Plural
Nominative an tsip na sipeanna
Genitive na sipe na sipeanna
Dative leis an tsip

don tsip

leis na sipeanna

Mutation[edit]

Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
sip ship
after an, tsip 		not applicable
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading[edit]

Spanish[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Possibly a calque of English yep.

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /ˈsip/ [ˈsip]
  • Rhymes: -ip
  • Syllabification: sip

Interjection[edit]

sip

  1. (informal, neologism) yep, yeah, uh-huh

See also[edit]

Tok Pisin[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From English ship.

Noun[edit]

sip

  1. ship
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