Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A small piece of toast or bread soaked in gravy or other liquid or used as a garnish.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A little sip or sup.
  • noun Anything soaked or dipped in a liquid before being eaten; a sop; especially, in the plural, bread cut into small pieces and served in milk or broth.
  • noun A fragment; a bit.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun A small sop; a small, thin piece of toasted bread soaked in milk, broth, or the like; a small piece of toasted or fried bread cut into some special shape and used for garnishing.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A small piece of something, especially a piece of toast or fried bean eaten with soup or gravy.

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[From sip, alteration of sop.]

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

First attested in the 16th Century, as a diminutive of sop.

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Examples

  • Here he swallowed his buttered sippet very gracefully.

    Eug�nie Grandet 2007

  • And the King flung a sippet of toast after him as he added: 'I am hedged in with robbers.'

    Orrain A Romance S. Levett-Yeats

  • Finally he finished his last sippet of bread steeped in soup, pushed aside his plate, helped himself to a plum, and looked around him.

    Orrain A Romance S. Levett-Yeats

  • TUESDAY (dinner) Pea soup, with toast bread, (sippet).

    From Captivity to Fame or The Life of George Washington Carver Raleigh Howard Merritt 1929

  • At this Jeanne ventured to begin; but her frame was so enfeebled that with the second sippet of bread she declared herself wearied.

    A Love Episode ��mile Zola 1871

  • He, with his round, dumpy figure, leaned over the basin, devouring a sippet with each mouthful of broth.

    A Love Episode ��mile Zola 1871

  • When quite crisp, dip one side of the sippet into the beaten white of an egg mixed with a little flour, and place it on the edge of the dish.

    The Book of Household Management Isabella Mary 1861

  • When quite crisp, dip one side of the sippet into the beaten white of an egg mixed with a little flour, and place it on the edge of the dish.

    The Book of Household Management Isabella Mary 1861

  • The only time that woman is happy is when she comes in of a morning to the little boys 'dormitories with a cup of hot Epsom salts, and a sippet of bread.

    The Christmas Books of Mr. M.A. Titmarsh William Makepeace Thackeray 1837

  • a little salt, and sugar, pour it on the fish, sippet it, and serve it hot.

    The accomplisht cook or, The art & mystery of cookery Robert May

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  • Also see sop.

    December 27, 2021