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sipful

sipful noun: the amount ingested in a single sip.

Noun

sipful (plural sipfuls or sipsful)

  1. The amount ingested in a single sip.
    • He drank slowly, leaving sipfuls in his mouth for a long time.1975, Sputnik, page 8
    • She cleaned his clothes, she fed him his meals, and at the same time, hidden in the kitchen, she would take sipfuls of baby formula herself and then feed it to the baby in a kind of nourishing kiss.1982, Caroline Leavitt, Lifelines, Seaview Books, →ISBN, page 63

Examples of sipful in a sentence

  • The wife, between sipfuls of espresso and coloratura orders to a battery of maids, did manage to impart “make-yourself-comfy” notices to her crusty husband’s really far-out friend.2010, Wilfrido D. Nolledo, “Juego de Prenda”, in Gémino H[enson] Abad, editor, Underground Spirit: Philippine Short Stories in English...
  • What is the difference to the tongue’s taste between drinking a full bodied Velletri wine and vinegar and gall, and how much does he drink in that mouth’s sipful?2013, Bernard Beatty, “The Bric-à-Brac Wars: Robert Browning and Blessed John Henry Newman”, in Jonathon Shears, Jen Harrison, editors...
  • He looked at his wineglass, he had taken no more than a few sipfuls of wine.2014, John Flanagan, “Arson”, in Shay Elliott and Collected Short Stories, AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 403:

Forms of sipful

pluralsipfuls
pluralsipsful

Origin of sipful

From sip + -ful.

Questions about sipful

What does sipful mean?
Sipful means the amount ingested in a single sip.
How do you use sipful in a sentence?
The wife, between sipfuls of espresso and coloratura orders to a battery of maids, did manage to impart “make-yourself-comfy” notices to her crusty husband’s really far-out friend.
What part of speech is sipful?
Sipful is a noun.
What is the plural of sipful?
The plural of sipful is sipfuls.

Words near sipful in the dictionary

  1. siped
  2. Sipek
  3. siperone
  4. sipes
  5. Sipeses
  6. sipful
  7. sipfuls
  8. Sipher
  9. Siphers
  10. siphilis
  11. siphlonurid

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