sippy cup
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- /ˈsɪpi kʌp/
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- The sippy cup is perfect for preventing spills while the child learns to drink.
So I think it's great that it came out of pacifiers and sippy cups and toys and rubber duckies.
- So I think it's great that it came out of pacifiers and sippy cups and toys and rubber duckies.
- Also peanut butter crackers, some water and a little sippy cup.
- Will you please share with the listener at what age you weaned your children from sippy cups?
- This phenol A and BPA's were banned from sippy cups and kids and from any food containers for young kids.
- But also when I was getting out the cake to cut it and do the do our little thing together, there was a Roo's blue sippy cup was sitting out.
Examples
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Oh man, sounds like everyone in the house needs to drink from those silly sippy cups!
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After lunch, I feed him some warm milk in a sippy cup, rock him to sleep, and lay him in his crib.
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Honey, can you grab his sippy cup?
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Does this look like a sippy cup?
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- I got a sippy cup!
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Somebody get him a sippy cup.
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So I got to work in creating an ultimate sippy cup organization system.
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The sippy cup was then placed out of sight.
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Do we need to get you a plastic sippy cup?
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They let them go to bed with a sippy cup.
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Synonyms
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A container with a narrow neck for holding drinks or other liquids
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A small open container with a handle for drinking liquids
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A small cup with a spout or straw for drinking easily
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A container like a cup or mug for holding liquids to drink
How Spill-Proof
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Surface Forms
Morphology
sippy + cup
The compound is partly compositional: 'sippy' derives from 'sip' (a diminutive/child-directed form) and 'cup' is literal, so a learner who knows the constituents can infer a child-oriented drinking cup. However, the insulting/pragmatic usage (giving such a cup to an adult to infantilize them) is an extended, culture-specific figurative use not directly predictable from the parts, and 'sippy' is not a standard dictionary headword, so full meaning requires exposure.
Etymology
Sippy cup comes from the small child's cup with a lid and a small hole that lets you sip from a cup without spilling. Because it keeps drinks in and stops messes, the name means a 'spill-proof' cup for young children.