Sip vs Simp - What's the difference?
sip | simp |
To drink slowly, small mouthfuls at a time.
* 1898 , , (Moonfleet) Chapter 5
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‘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.’}}* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-03, volume=408, issue=8847, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= To drink a small quantity.
* (John Dryden)
To taste the liquor of; to drink out of.
* (John Dryden)
(Scotland, US, dated)
(Webster 1913)
(slang) A simple person lacking common sense; a fool or simpleton.
*1946 , Mezz Mezzrow and Bernard Wolfe, Really the Blues , Payback Press 1999, p. 59:
*:Pimps and simps would fall in from here and there and everywhere, grabbing thousand-dollar advances from the madames and leaving their lady friends in pawn.
* 1981 , Philip K. Dick, Valis , ISBN 0553205943, p. 105
As nouns the difference between sip and simp
is that sip is a small mouthful of drink while simp is a simple person lacking common sense; a fool or simpleton.As a verb sip
is to drink slowly, small mouthfuls at a time.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.
Synonyms
* nurse * See alsoSee also
* seep * siphonAnagrams
* ----simp
English
Noun
(en noun)- Groggy from my nap I turn on the TV and try to watch.... Morons and simps appear in the screen, drool like pinheads and waterheads....