[1605–15; sip + -er1]This word is first recorded in the period 1605–15. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: gothic, ideal, package, pivot, turnover-er is a suffix used in forming nouns designating persons from the object of their occupationor labor (hatter; tiler; tinner; moonshiner), or from their place of origin or abode (Icelander; southerner; villager), or designating either persons or things from some special characteristic or circumstance(six-footer; three-master; teetotaler; fiver; tenner)
Examples of 'sipper' in a sentence
sipper
Slow in almost everything else, he was a quick coffee drinker, not a sipper.
Jon Cleary YESTERDAY'S SHADOW (2002)
Its caramel sweetness checks the traditional bitterness, making for a smooth but intense sipper.