Crossword clues for sippet
sippet
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Sippet \Sip"pet\, n. [See Sip, Sop.] 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.
Your sweet sippets in widows' houses.
--Milton.
Wiktionary
n. A small piece of something, especially a piece of toast or fried bean eaten with soup or gravy.
Usage examples of "sippet".
He, with his round, dumpy figure, leaned over the basin, devouring a sippet with each mouthful of broth.
Finally he finished his last sippet of bread steeped in soup, pushed aside his plate, helped himself to a plum, and looked around him.
Young Caesar made her drink soup and sippets, sitting on the edge of the couch and coaxing softly, gently, inexorably.
Rosalie, with her back turned to the door, was occupied in cutting some long sippets of bread for him.
When scrambled, serve on sippets of toast, lightly spread with anchovy paste.
Serve upon the untoasted side of sippets of bread toasted on one side.
Spread sippets of toast with butter and then with anchovy paste, and turn the woodcock upon them.
Dorothy was perched up in an antique high chair that had been dragged out from somewhere, her grandmother was feeding her tiny sippets of bread and milk from a coin-silver coffee spoon in the neatest way possible.
Young Caesar made her drink soup and sippets, sitting on the edge of the couch and coaxing softly, gently, inexorably.