sipplev.
/ˈsɪp(ə)l/ 1. transitive. To drink (liquor, etc.) slowly or by small sips; to sip up.
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the world > food and drink > drink > drinking > [verb (transitive)] > sip or sup
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1566 T. Drant tr. Horace Medicinable Morall sig. Bv The man, doth sipple vp the brothe.
1570 P. Levens Manipulus Vocabulorum sig. Mi/2 To Sypple, sorbillare.
1683 G. Meriton Praise Yorks. Ale (1685) 7 At the first they did but sipple up This rare Ambrosia.
1748 T. Smollett Roderick Random II. xlv. 97 Improperly applied to the taking of coffee, in as much as people did not drink, but sip or sipple that liquor.
1832 Whistle-Binkie 1st Ser. 18 I had not learn'd to sipple tea.
2. intransitive. To sip liquor or the like leisurely.
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the world > food and drink > drink > drinking > [verb (intransitive)] > sip or sup
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1607 G. Markham Cavelarice vii. 17 Distempered with heat.., which you shall plainely perceiue by his continuall desire to drinke and sciple.
1816 W. Scott Antiquary I. ix. 202 The bodie had got sic a trick of sippling and tippling wi' the baillies and deacons when they met.
1819 W. Scott in J. G. Lockhart Mem. Life Sir W. Scott (1837) IV. ix. 294 You had better drink a bottle of wine on any particular occasion, than sit..and sipple at an English pint every day.
Derivatives
ˈsippling n. Also attributive.
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the world > food and drink > drink > drinking > [noun] > sipping or supping
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1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. xx. xxi. 72 The seed of Mallows..sodden in milk and taken after a sippling sort.
1681 W. Robertson Phraseologia generalis (1693) 1159 To spend all the day in sipling.
1687 A. Lovell tr. J. de Thévenot Trav. into Levant i. 33 They all drink it sipping..; so that being in a Coffee-hane..one hears a pretty pleasant kind of sippling musick.
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