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sippling

sippling is the present participle and gerund of sipple.

Meaning of sipple

Verb

sipple (third-person singular simple present sipples, present participle sippling, simple past and past participle sippled)

  1. (archaic, transitive) 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

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Questions about sippling

What is sippling the present participle and gerund of?
Sippling is the present participle and gerund of sipple.

Words near sippling in the dictionary

  1. sippingly
  2. sippings
  3. sipple
  4. sippled
  5. sipples
  6. sippling
  7. SIPPs
  8. sippy
  9. sippy cup
  10. sippy cups
  11. SIPRNET

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Adapted from Wiktionary: sippling (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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