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Sipping vs Drinking - What's the difference?

sipping | drinking |

As verbs the difference between sipping and drinking

is that sipping is present participle of lang=en while drinking is present participle of lang=en.

As nouns the difference between sipping and drinking

is that sipping is the act of taking a sip while drinking is an act or session by which drink is consumed, especially alcoholic beverages.

sipping

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of taking a sip.
  • * 1852 , Theophilus Thompson, Annals of Influenza Or Epidemic Catarrhal Fever in Great Britain from 1510 to 1837 (page 107)
    • But, in general, a few days' confinement, abstinence from flesh meat, and frequent sippings of some tepid pectoral drink, sufficed for the cure.

    drinking

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • An act or session by which drink is consumed, especially alcoholic beverages.
  • * 1853 , Susan Bogert Warner, The wide, wide world (page 372)
    • At home there were other studies and much reading; many tea drinkings on the lawn, and even breakfastings, which she thought pleasanter still.