| 释义 |
sipid, a. rare.|ˈsɪpɪd|
Also 7 sippid.
[Back-formation from insipid a.]
1. Savoury; = sapid a. 1.
1623Cockeram i, Sippid, sauorie. 1660F. Brooke tr. Le Blanc's Trav. 237 The flesh of Crocodile..was wholesome, white, and sipid.
2. fig. = sapid a. 3.
1908A. Symons in Sat. Rev. 17 Oct. 480/2 The music was..gay, rattling, sipid, voluptuously melodious.
Hence siˈpidity, savour, flavour. rare—1.
1880I. L. Bird Japan I. 233 It is..used everywhere..to give sipidity to their otherwise tasteless food. |