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sipful

noun

Etymology

From sip + -ful.

  1. derived from *seyb-✻ — “to pour out, trickle, leak out”
  2. inherited from *sipōną✻ — “to drip, trickle”
  3. inherited from sipian
  4. inherited from sippen
  5. suffixed as sipful — “sip + ful”

Definitions

  1. The amount ingested in a single sip.

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

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for sipful. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA