- 1（常喝的）小酒、愛喝的那一杯；語氣輕鬆帶點老派，What's your tipple? 就是「你平常都喝什麼？」。不是指酗酒。
Someone's tipple is the alcoholic drink they usually choose and enjoy. 'Gin and tonic is her tipple.' 'What's your tipple?' is a friendly way of asking what you would like to drink. The word is warm and a bit playful. It makes drinking sound like a small pleasure or a habit, not a problem — you would not use it about someone who drinks too much. It also sounds slightly old-fashioned and quite British; a , a newspaper food column, or an older relative is more likely to say it than a young person in a bar. Two more things. It is countable, so you can say 'a tipple' meaning one drink: 'I might have a little tipple before bed.' And there is a verb 'to tipple', meaning to drink alcohol regularly in small amounts. The verb is rarer and does carry a gentle hint of drinking a bit too often — 'he tippled all afternoon' — but it is still mild and almost rather than serious. In everyday English, the noun is the one to know: your tipple is your usual drink.
組成The origin is not certain. It may come from a Scandinavian source — Norwegian has 'tipla' — or it may be built from 'tip' plus the ending '-le', which often makes a verb of small, repeated actions.
原始詞典資料9 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
Tipplename
- 1
A surname originating as a patronymic.
tipplenoun/ˈtɪpəl/
- 1
An area near the entrance of mines which is used to load and unload coal.
- 2
rail-transportrailwaystransportAn apparatus for unloading railroad freight cars by tipping them; the place where this is done.
- Alternative form: tippler
- 3
slangAny alcoholic drink.
- The comedian would have divers bottles of tipple hidden under bushes and in crannies around his house, and would select guests to embark on his idea of a treasure hunt.
- What's your tipple?
tippleverb/ˈtɪpəl/
- 1
To sell alcoholic liquor by retail.
- 2
To drink too much alcohol.
- 3
To drink alcohol regularly or habitually, but not to excess.
- Few of those who were summoned left their homes, and those few generally found it more agreeable to tipple in alehouses than to pace the streets.
- 4
To put up (hay, etc.) in bundles in order to dry it.
- 5
To fall over; to topple.
- The men had only moved the trailer about a yard when suddenly it tippled over on its side, and bales of cotton fell on Howarth.
- After taking a few moments to recover he turned and meandered towards the closest Supergun, ramming it from the side and watching as it tippled over.
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