sip
Plural: sips
Noun
- a small drink
- A small mouthful of drink
- An event at which people drink alcohol in small, usually sub-intoxicating amounts.
Verb
Verb Forms: sipped, sipping, sips
- To drink slowly in small quantities.
- drink in sips
- "She was sipping her tea"
- To drink slowly, small mouthfuls at a time.
- To drink a small quantity.
- To taste the liquor of; to drink out of.
- Alternative form of seep.
- To consume slowly.
Examples
- He would sip his tea calmly, even when making a game-changing play in Words With Friends.
Origin / Etymology
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”).
Synonyms
Scrabble Score: 5
sip: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordsip: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
sip: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary