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sip¹
- /sɪp/
Rhymes with -ɪp
Where it comes from
Inherited from Middle English sippen, of uncertain origin. Compare with Low German sippen (“to sip”). Possibly from a variant of Middle English suppen (“to drink, sip”) (see sup) or perhaps from Old English sipian, sypian (“to take in moisture, soak, macerate”), from Proto-Germanic *sipōną (“to drip, trickle”), from Proto-Indo-European *seyb- (“to pour out, trickle, leak out”). Compare also Old High German supfen (“to drink, sip”), from Proto-Germanic *sūpaną (“to sip, intake”).
noun sips
- A small mouthful of drink. So order one more coffee / Have another sip of wine / We can go on talking / Until it's disco closing time
- An event at which people drink alcohol in small, usually subintoxicating amounts. Earl is always a good time. His appearance at parties, whether it's a smart cocktail sip or a basement gig, is mandatory.
verb sips · sipping · sipped
- To drink slowly, small mouthfuls at a time. 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.
- To drink a small quantity. [She] rais'd it to her mouth with sober grace; / Then, sipping, offered to the next in place.
- To taste the liquor of; to drink out of. They skim the floods, and sip the purple flowers.
- Alternative form of seep
- To consume slowly. Sales of lightbulbs which sip electricity, and whose increased cost in the shops is easily paid for over their lifetime, used to double every year; in 1990/1991, they leapt sevenfold.
Similar: nurse
SIP²
noun SIPs
- Acronym of single-issue publication
- Acronym of structural insulated panel
proper noun
- Initialism of Session Initiation Protocol
- Initialism of Supplementary Ideographic Plane, the third plane (Plane 2) in Unicode, with 65,536 codepoints (from U+20000 through U+2FFFF), mainly used for less-common CJK characters.
- Initialism of System Integrity Protection
- Initialism of Strengthening Institutions Program “The Budget does not include funding for the Strengthening Institutions Program (SIP). SIP is duplicative of other Title III and V program funding for institutional support activities.
Thesaurus
Closest in meaning: nip, sup, imbibe, drink, swig, swallow, thimbleful, taste, glass, mts, drop, bit, fortifying, psa, pss, nurse
verb
Similar: nurse
Translations
Every language
noun A small mouthful of drink
| Español | sorbo |
|---|---|
| 中文 | 抿 mǐn, 啜 chuò |
| Português | gole |
| Français | gorgée |
| Deutsch | Schlückchen |
| Italiano | sorso |
| Ελληνικά | γουλιά gouliá |
| Română | gură, înghițitură, sorbitură |
| Tiếng Việt | hớp |
| العربية | مَصَّة maṣṣa, رَشْفَة rašfa |
| עברית | לְגִימָה l'gimá |
verb to drink slowly, small mouthfuls at a time
| Español | sorber, libar |
|---|---|
| 日本語 | すする susuru |
| 中文 | 抿 mǐn, 啜 |
| Português | bebericar, sorver |
| Français | siroter |
| Deutsch | nippen |
| Italiano | sorbire, sorseggiare |
| Ελληνικά | πίνω γουλιά-γουλιά píno gouliá-gouliá |
| Română | sorbi, înghițitură |
| Русский | пригуби́ть prigubítʹ |
| Tiếng Việt | hớp |
| العربية | مَزّ mazz, كَرَع karaʕ, رَشَفَ rašafa, حَسَا ḥasā, تَمَصّصَ, تَحَسّى |
| עברית | לָגַם lagám |
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title = {sip},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
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urldate = {2026-11-06}
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