Word Watch. What's the Word? AmeriClean Newsletter - December 2008 / January 2009
sipid (SIP-id) (ADJ)
What does it mean?
Having a pleasing taste or flavor.
Where does it come from?
The word “sipid” ultimately comes from the Indo-European root sep- (to taste or perceive) that is also the source of sage, savant, savvy, savor, sapid, sapient, and, the word’s more common negative form, insipid (literally, “not sipid.”)
How do you use it?
“CBS adds two new comedies to the mix this year, moving the insipid `Major Dad’ to Friday nights to make room for John Ritter and Markie Post in the slightly more sipid `Hearts Afire’.” Ed Siegel, Monday: CBS is the Ticket, Boston Globe, Sep 14, 1992.
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