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Definition of Sippling
1. a. Sipping often.
Definition of Sippling
1. Verb. (present participle of sipple) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Sippling
1. sipple [v] - See also: sipple
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sippling
Literary usage of Sippling
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Quarterly Review by John Gibson Lockhart, George Walter Prothero, William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, Baron Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, Sir William Smith (1902)
"It is by no means unlikely that this ' sippling and tippling,' as Miss Oldbuck
called it, over 'the common gude o' the burgh,' may have shortened George's ..."
2. The Antiquary by Walter Scott (1816)
"... throat—we never were glass- breakers in this house, Mr. Lovel—but the bodie
h^d got sic a trick of sippling and tippling wi' the baillies and deacons, ..."
3. Rhode Island Historical Society Collections by Rhode Island Historical Society (1867)
"... who rather pass their time in sippling than turn it to the profit and advantage
of their country, who stood in need of their assistance. Capt. ..."
4. Records of the Governor and Council of the State of Vermont by Vermont, Vermont Conventions, 1775-1777, Vermont Council of Safety, 1777-1778, Vermont Governor, Vermont Board of War, 1779-1783 (1875)
"<w obliged to tarry through the means of his Effeminate officers, who rather pass
their time in sippling than turn it to the profit and advantage of their ..."
5. The Invasion of Canada in 1775: Including the Journal of Captain Simeon by Simeon Thayer (1867)
"... who rather pass their time in sippling than turn it to the profit and advantage
of their country, who stood in need of their assistance. Capt. ..."
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