Sippet vs Sippest - What's the difference?
sippet | sippest |
A small piece of something, especially a piece of toast or fried bean eaten with soup or gravy.
* {{quote-book, year=1685, author=Robert May, title=The accomplisht cook, chapter=, edition=
, passage=Then have sippets' finely carved, and some slices of ''French'' bread in the bottom of the dish,
* {{quote-book, year=1764, author=Elizabeth Moxon, title=English Housewifery Exemplified, chapter=, edition=
, passage=Garnish your dish with sippets , lemon, and a few pickled mushrooms.}}
* {{quote-book, year=1859-1861, author=Mrs. Isabella Beeton, title=The Book of Household Management, chapter=, edition=
, passage=Serve with small sippets of bread fried in butter. }}
(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)
, chapter=5
‘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)
As a noun sippet
is a small piece of something, especially a piece of toast or fried bean eaten with soup or gravy.As a verb sippest is
archaic second-person singular of sip.sippet
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* snippetAnagrams
*sippest
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Verb
(head)sip
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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.