sip Meaning, Definition & Usage

Sip transitive verb

Etymology

OE. sippen; akin to OD. sippen, and AS. span to sip, suck up, drink. See Sup, v. t.

Wordforms

imperfect & past participle Sipped ; present participle & verbal noun Sipping

Definitions

1. To drink or imbibe in small quantities; especially, to take in with the lips in small quantities, as a liquid; as, to sip tea. "Every herb that sips the dew." Milton.
2. To draw into the mouth; to suck up; as, a bee sips nectar from the flowers.
3. To taste the liquor of; to drink out of. Poetic

   They skim the floods, and sip the purple flowers. Dryden.

Sip intransitive verb

Definitions

1. To drink a small quantity; to take a fluid with the lips; to take a sip or sips of something.

   [She] raised it to her mouth with sober grace; Then, sipping, offered to the next in place. Dryden.

Sip noun

Definitions

1. The act of sipping; the taking of a liquid with the lips.
2. A small draught taken with the lips; a slight taste.

   One sip of this Will bathe the drooping spirits in delight Beyond the bliss of dreams. Milton.

   A sip is all that the public ever care to take from reservoirs of abstract philosophy. De Quincey.

Sip intransitive verb

Definitions

1. See Seep. Scot. & U.S.