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名詞

sipful (plural sipfuls or sipsful)

1. The amount ingested in a single sip.
   • 1975, Sputnik, page 8:

     He drank slowly, leaving sipfuls in his mouth for a long time.

   • 1982, Caroline Leavitt, Lifelines, Seaview Books, →ISBN, page 63:

     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.

   • 2002, Sruti, page 35:

     We learnt that she had been that way since her bereavement, hardly talking even to family members and unable— or perhaps unwilling— to take any solid food, though she was forced to take sipfuls of fruit juice or a hot beverage now and then.

   • 2003, San Diego Museum Papers, page 82:

     Before they prayed over the objects and drank sipfuls of the holy water they had brought, my compadre added to the altar the peyote they had gathered from our recent visit to the peyote fields of south Texas.

   • 2004, Lucy Corin, “Box on the Beach”, in Everyday Psychokillers: A History for Girls, Tallahassee, Fla.: FC2, →ISBN, page 60:

     And one night Joe was drinking and drinking beer from cans in the sunken living room, and several empty cans rolled around on the dusty-rose carpet by his easy chair, one or two drooling a little of that last sipful, that mixture of drink and spittle they warn you not to drink, backwash it’s called.

   • 2008, Peter Boxall, editor, 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die, Cassell Illustrated:

     Colette’s evocation of nature’s enigmatic goings-on is very much in evidence: the cat purrs like “the rumble of a distant factory,” tame swallows land on her hair, and a spider regularly climbs down from its web to collect sipfuls of drinking chocolate from her mother’s bedside bowl.

   • 2009, Farai Chideya, “Roni Size/Reprazent, “Brown Paper Bag””, in Kiss the Sky, Atria Books, →ISBN, page 258:

     The waiter did precisely what I ordered, giving me a few sipsful in the bottom of a glass.

   • 2010, Wilfrido D. Nolledo, “Juego de Prenda”, in Gémino H[enson] Abad, editor, Underground Spirit: Philippine Short Stories in English, 1973 to 1982, volume I, The University of the Philippines Press, →ISBN, page 265:

     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.

   • 2013, Bernard Beatty, “The Bric-à-Brac Wars: Robert Browning and Blessed John Henry Newman”, in Jonathon Shears, Jen Harrison, editors, Literary Bric-à-Brac and the Victorians: From Commodities to Oddities, London; New York, N.Y.: Ashgate Publishing, →ISBN, page 92:

     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?

   • 2014, John Flanagan, “Arson”, in Shay Elliott and Collected Short Stories, AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 403:

     He looked at his wineglass, he had taken no more than a few sipfuls of wine.