sip
English
Etymology
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
Noun
sip (plural sips)
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Verb
sip (third-person singular simple present sips, present participle sipping, simple past and past participle sipped)
- (transitive) To drink slowly, small mouthfuls at a time.
- 1898, J. Meade Falkner, Moonfleet Chapter 5
- 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[1]:
- A waiter brought his aperitif, which was a small scotch and soda, and as he sipped it gratefully he sighed.
‘Civilized,’ he said to Mr. Campion. ‘Humanizing.’ […] ‘Cigars and summer days and women in big hats with swansdown face-powder, that's what it reminds me of.’
- 2013 August 3, “Revenge of the nerds”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8847:
- Think of banking today and the image is of grey-suited men in towering skyscrapers. Its future, however, is being shaped in converted warehouses and funky offices in San Francisco, New York and London, where bright young things in jeans and T-shirts huddle around laptops, sipping lattes or munching on free food.
- 1898, J. Meade Falkner, Moonfleet Chapter 5
- (intransitive) To drink a small quantity.
- John Dryden
- [She] raised it to her mouth with sober grace; / Then, sipping, offered to the next in place.
- John Dryden
- To taste the liquor of; to drink out of.
- John Dryden
- They skim the floods, and sip the purple flowers.
- John Dryden
- (Scotland, US, dated) Alternative form of seep
- (figurative) to consume slowly — (usually) in contrast to faster consumption, (sometimes) in contrast to zero consumption
- 1995 Richard North, Life on a Modern Planet: A Manifesto for Progress p.80 (Manchester University Press, →ISBN):
- 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" The Economist:
- 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.
- 1995 Richard North, Life on a Modern Planet: A Manifesto for Progress p.80 (Manchester University Press, →ISBN):
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “sip”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
Synonyms
- nurse
- See also Thesaurus:drink
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Dutch
Etymology
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Pronunciation
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Adjective
sip (comparative sipper, superlative sipst)
Inflection
Declension of sip | ||||
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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
Etymology
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
Adjective
sip
- (colloquial) safe.
Further reading
- “sip” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.
Irish
Alternative forms
Etymology
Noun
sip f (genitive singular sipe, nominative plural sipeanna)
Declension
Mutation
Irish mutation | ||
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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
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “sip”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “sip”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
Spanish
Etymology
Possibly a calque of English yep.
Pronunciation
Interjection
sip
See also
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sip
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