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sippy

noun

Etymology

From sip + -y.

  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 sippy — “sip + y”

Definitions

  1. A little sip

    A little sip; less than a serving of some particular drink

    • Would you like a little water, Sue? SUE. Well, perhaps a sippy. (SUE squirts some water into a paper cup.)
    • By going to the canteen as soon as it opened some people hoped to cadge money, or one or more cans, or at least a 'sippy'.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for sippy. 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