Meaning & use
sippet
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Meaning
nouncountablerareold-fashioned
A small piece of bread or toast, often served in soup or with a drink.
Grammar: Countable, so you can say 'a sippet' or 'sippets'.
Patterns
- a sippet of bread
- serve something with sippets
The old recipe says to float sippets of toasted bread on top of the soup.
In the story, the servants brought wine and small sippets of bread.
He dipped a sippet into the thick stew and ate it.
Word forms
| plural | sippets |
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Common combinations
- a sippet of bread
- She tore off a sippet of bread to dip in the soup.
- toasted sippets
- The dish was garnished with toasted sippets.
- float sippets on soup
- Old cookbooks often tell you to float sippets on soup.
Synonyms and how they differ
- crouton
- Crouton is the modern everyday word for a small piece of toasted bread served in soup; sippet is much rarer and sounds historical.
- morsel
- Morsel means any small piece of food, not specifically bread; sippet is only bread.
Commonly confused: sippet or snippet?
sippet vs snippet
Snippet means a small piece of information or text, not food. A sippet is something you eat; a snippet is something you read or hear.
Practice
In which sentence is 'sippet' used correctly?
Choose one answer.
A sippet is a small piece of bread or toast, often served in soup, so sentence 3 fits. Sentence 1 confuses it with 'snippet' (a small piece of text). Sentence 2 uses it for cheese, but sippets are made of bread. Sentence 4 invents a sewing meaning that does not exist.
Make it your own
Write a sentence using “sippet”, then check it and compare it with the examples above.