Spoon vs Sip - What's the difference?
spoon | sip |
An implement for eating or serving; a scooped utensil whose long handle is straight, in contrast to a ladle.
* Shakespeare
An implement for stirring food while being prepared; a wooden spoon.
A measure that will fit into a spoon; a spoonful.
(sports, archaic) A wooden-headed golf club with moderate loft, similar to the modern three wood.
(fishing) A type of metal lure resembling the concave head of a table spoon.
(dentistry, informal) A spoon excavator.
(figuratively, slang, archaic) A simpleton, a spooney.
A safety handle on a hand grenade, a trigger.
To serve using a spoon.
(dated) To flirt; to make advances; to court, to interact romantically or amorously.
* 1913 ,
(transitive, or, intransitive, slang, of persons) To lie nestled front-to-back, following the contours of the bodies, in a manner reminiscent of stacked spoons.
(tennis) To hit weakly
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To drink slowly, small mouthfuls at a time.
* 1898 , , (Moonfleet) Chapter 5
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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)
As a noun spoon
is an implement for eating or serving; a scooped utensil whose long handle is straight, in contrast to a ladle.As a verb spoon
is to serve using a spoon or spoon can be .As a proper noun sip is
cyprus.As an adjective sip is
cypriot.spoon
English
(wikipedia spoon)Etymology 1
From (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- He must have a long spoon that must eat with the devil.
- (Hood)
Derived terms
* spoonbill * spooner * spoon bread * spoon-feed, spoon-fed * dessert spoon, dessertspoon * gag me with a spoon * measuring spoon * runcible spoon * silver spoon * soup spoon, soupspoon * tablespoon * teaspoon * wooden spoonVerb
(en verb)- Sarah spooned some apple sauce onto her plate.
- Do you think we spoon and do? We only talk.
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Derived terms
* spooner * big spoon, little spoonSee also
* cutlery * ladle * silverwareEtymology 2
Origin uncertain. Compare spoom.Derived terms
* spoon-driftAnagrams
* 1000 English basic wordssip
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.
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- [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.