sippet
sippet noun: a small piece of something, especially a piece of toast or fried bean eaten with soup or gravy.
Noun
sippet (plural sippets)
- A small piece of something, especially a piece of toast or fried bean eaten with soup or gravy.
- The best sauce for green geese is the juice of sorrel and sugar, mixed together with a few scladed feaberries and served upon sippets1615, Gervase Markham, The English Huswife
- Then have sippets finely carved, and some slices of French bread in the bottom of the dish, […].1685, Robert May, The accomplisht cook
sippet meaning in Tamil
sippet in Tamil
- உண் கவளம்
Examples of sippet in a sentence
- Garnish your dish with sippets, lemon, and a few pickled mushrooms.1764, Elizabeth Moxon, English Housewifery Exemplified:
- Serve with small sippets of bread fried in butter.1859-1861, Mrs. Isabella Beeton, The Book of Household Management:
Forms of sippet
| plural | sippets |
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Origin of sippet
First attested in the 16th century, as a diminutive of sop. See et.
Words that rhyme with sippet
Questions about sippet
- What does sippet mean?
- Sippet means a small piece of something, especially a piece of toast or fried bean eaten with soup or gravy.
- What is sippet in Tamil?
- Sippet in Tamil is உண் கவளம். See Sippet meaning in Tamil.
- How do you use sippet in a sentence?
- Garnish your dish with sippets, lemon, and a few pickled mushrooms.
- What part of speech is sippet?
- Sippet is a noun.
- What is the plural of sippet?
- The plural of sippet is sippets.
Words near sippet in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: sippet (page history and authors); sippet (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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