Sappest vs Sippest - What's the difference?
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(archaic) (sap)
(uncountable) The juice of plants of any kind, especially the ascending and descending juices or circulating fluid essential to nutrition.
(uncountable) The sap-wood, or alburnum, of a tree.
(slang, countable) A simpleton; a saphead; a milksop; a naive person.
(countable, US, slang) A short wooden club; a leather-covered hand weapon; a blackjack.
(rfimage)
(slang) To strike with a sap (with a blackjack).
(military) A narrow ditch or trench made from the foremost parallel toward the glacis or covert way of a besieged place by digging under cover of gabions, etc.
To subvert by digging or wearing away; to mine; to undermine; to destroy the foundation of.
* (rfdate)
(military) To pierce with saps.
To make unstable or infirm; to unsettle; to weaken.
* 1850 ,
To gradually weaken.
* to sap one’s conscience
To proceed by mining, or by secretly undermining; to execute saps — 12
* (rfdate)
(archaic) (sip)
To drink slowly, small mouthfuls at a time.
* 1898 , , (Moonfleet) Chapter 5
* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
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, title= To drink a small quantity.
* (John Dryden)
To taste the liquor of; to drink out of.
* (John Dryden)
(Scotland, US, dated)
(Webster 1913)
In archaic terms the difference between sappest and sippest
is that sappest is archaic second-person singular of sap while sippest is archaic second-person singular of sip.sappest
English
Verb
(head)sap
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) sap, from (etyl) ), from *''sap 'to taste'. More at sage.Noun
(wikipedia sap)Derived terms
(terms derived from sap) * crude sap * elaborated sap * sap ball * sap green * saphead * sapling * sap poison * sap rot * sapsucker * sap tubeEtymology 2
Probably from sapling.Noun
(en noun)Verb
(sapp)Etymology 3
From (etyl) saper (compare Spanish zapar and Italian zappare) from .Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* sap fagot * sap roller * sapperVerb
(sapp)- Nor safe their dwellings were, for sapped by floods, / Their houses fell upon their household gods.
- Ring out the grief that saps the mind
- Both assaults carried on by sapping .
Anagrams
* * * * * ----sippest
English
Verb
(head)sip
English
Verb
- He held out to me a bowl of steaming broth, that filled the room with a savour sweeter, ten thousand times, to me than every rose and lily of the world; yet would not let me drink it at a gulp, but made me sip it with a spoon like any baby.
citation, passage=A waiter brought his aperitif, which was a small scotch and soda, and as he sipped it gratefully he sighed.
‘Civilized,’ he said to Mr. Campion. ‘Humanizing.’ […] ‘Cigars and summer days and women in big hats with swansdown face-powder, that's what it reminds me of.’}}
Revenge of the nerds, passage=Think of banking today and the image is of grey-suited men in towering skyscrapers. Its future, however, is being shaped in converted warehouses and funky offices in San Francisco, New York and London, where bright young things in jeans and T-shirts huddle around laptops, sipping lattes or munching on free food.}}
- [She] raised it to her mouth with sober grace; / Then, sipping , offered to the next in place.
- They skim the floods, and sip the purple flowers.
