sipple
sipple verb: to drink by taking frequent sips.
Verb
sipple (third-person singular simple present sipples, present participle sippling, simple past and past participle sippled)
- To drink by taking frequent sips
- There settled a brief moment of silence while Mademoiselle and the Baroness sippled their exotic beverage and Keresztváry sucked down another petit four while staring into space, having apparently finished more than one cup of tea.2014, Christian Vago, The Rotted Garden: Volume One, page 59
- You had better drink a bottle of wine on any particular occasion, than sit and soak and sipple at an English pint every day.1837, Walter Scott, Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. (ed. John Gibson Lockhart), volume 6, Letter to Cornet Scott 7th August, 1819, page 115
Proper noun capitalized: Sipple
Sipple (plural Sipples)
- A surname.
Forms of sipple
| Verb | |
|---|---|
| third-person singular present | sipples |
| present participle | sippling |
| past participle | sippled |
| past | sippled |
| alternative form | sirple |
| Proper noun | |
| plural | Sipples |
Origin of sipple
From sip + -le (frequentative suffix).
Questions about sipple
- What does sipple mean?
- Sipple means to drink by taking frequent sips.
- What part of speech is sipple?
- Sipple can be a verb or a proper noun.
- What is the past tense of sipple?
- The past tense of sipple is sippled.
Words near sipple in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: sipple (page history and authors); Sipple (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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