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語源

From sip +‎ -le (frequentative suffix).

動詞

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
   • 2014, Christian Vago, The Rotted Garden: Volume One, page 59:

     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.

   • 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:

     You had better drink a bottle of wine on any particular occasion, than sit and soak and sipple at an English pint every day.

参考

• sirple

参照

• “sipple”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

アナグラム

• Pipels, Sippel