sipple

See also: Sipple

English

Alternative forms

• sirple (dialectal)

Etymology

From sip +‎ -le (frequentative suffix).

Verb

sipple (third-person singular simple present sipples, present participle sippling, simple past and past participle sippled)

1. (archaic, transitive) To take frequent sips; tipple.
   • 2014, Christian Vago, The Rotted Garden: Volume One, page 59:

     There settled a brief moment of silence while Mademoiselle and the Baroness sippled their exotic beverage and Keresztváry sucked down another petit four while staring into space, having apparently finished more than one cup of tea.

   • 1837, Walter Scott, Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. (ed. John Gibson Lockhart), volume 6, Letter to Cornet Scott 7th August, 1819, page 115:

     You had better drink a bottle of wine on any particular occasion, than sit and soak and sipple at an English pint every day.

See also

• sirple

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 “sipple”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• Pipels, Sippel