sipful

plural sipfuls · plural sipsful

1. The amount ingested in a single sip.

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

   1975, Sputnik, page 8

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   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.

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

   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.

   2002, Sruti, page 35

   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.

   2003, San Diego Museum Papers, page 82

   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.

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

   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.

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