sipple

present singular third person sipples · participle present sippling · participle past sippled · past sippled · alternative sirple

1. archaictransitiveTo drink by taking frequent sips

   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

   1 more example

   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

plural Sipples

1. A surname.