sip
(noun) a small drink
sip
(verb) drink in sips; “She was sipping her tea”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
sip (plural sips)
A small mouthful of drink
sip (third-person singular simple present sips, present participle sipping, simple past and past participle sipped)
(transitive) To drink slowly, small mouthfuls at a time.
(intransitive) To drink a small quantity.
To taste the liquor of; to drink out of.
(Scotland, US, dated) Alternative form of seep
(figurative) to consume slowly — (usually) in contrast to faster consumption, (sometimes) in contrast to zero consumption
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• See also drink
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Source: Wiktionary
Sip, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Sipped; p. pr. & vb. n. Sipping.] Etym: [OE. sippen; akin to OD. sippen, and AS. s to sip, suck up, drink. See Sup, v. t.]
1. To drink or imbibe in small quantities; especially, to take in with the lips in small quantities, as a liquid; as, to sip tea. "Every herb that sips the dew." Milton.
2. To draw into the mouth; to suck up; as, a bee sips nectar from the flowers.
3. To taste the liquor of; to drink out of. [Poetic] They skim the floods, and sip the purple flowers. Dryden.
Sip, v. i.
Definition: To drink a small quantity; to take a fluid with the lips; to take a sip or sips of something. [She] raised it to her mouth with sober grace; Then, sipping, offered to the next in place. Dryden.
Sip, n.
1. The act of sipping; the taking of a liquid with the lips.
2. A small draught taken with the lips; a slight taste. One sip of this Will bathe the drooping spirits in delight Beyond the bliss of dreams. Milton. A sip is all that the public ever care to take from reservoirs of abstract philosophy. De Quincey.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
15 April 2025
(adjective) marked by or promising bad fortune; “their business venture was doomed from the start”; “an ill-fated business venture”; “an ill-starred romance”; “the unlucky prisoner was again put in irons”- W.H.Prescott
The first coffee-house in Mecca dates back to the 1510s. The beverage was in Turkey by the 1530s. It appeared in Europe circa 1515-1519 and was introduced to England by 1650. By 1675 the country had more than 3,000 coffee houses, and coffee had replaced beer as a breakfast drink.
