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sipper|ˈsɪpə(r)|
[f. sip v. + -er1.]
One who sips; hence, a drinker or toper.
1611Cotgr., Piailleur, a bibber, sipper, wine-swiller. 1614B. Jonson Barth. Fair iii. i, They are all sippers, sippers o' the city; they look as they would not drink off two pen'orth of bottle-ale amongst 'em. 1702E. Baynard Cold Baths ii. (1709) 381 Sippers of Brandy and spirituous distill'd Liquors. 1806T. S. Surr Winter in London II. 233 Only look..at the difference of beef steak breakfasters, and the sippers of souchong! 1866Meredith Vittoria viii. (1889) 62, I promised my Rosellina, my poppy-headed sipper, a red-wine evening. 1891Leeds Mercury 27 May 5/2 Half a dozen gentlemen..sipping tea..; each sipper wears a tall hat.
fig.1850McCosh Div. Govt. (1852) 206 He is probably an idle dreamer, or a sipper of the sweets of literature. |