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noun
1.
a piece of solid food, as bread, for dipping in liquid food.
2.
anything thoroughly soaked.
3.
something given to pacify or quiet, or as a bribe: The political boss gave him some cash as a sop.
4.
a weak-willed or spineless person; milksop.
verb (used with object)
5.
to dip or soak in liquid food: to sop bread in gravy.
6.
to drench.
7.
to take up (liquid) by absorption (usually followed by up): He used bread to sop up the gravy.
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Sopped
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verb (used without object)
8.
to be or become soaking wet.
9.
(of a liquid) to soak (usually followed by in).
Origin:
before 1000; (noun) Middle English; Old English sopp; cognate with Old Norse soppa; (v.) Old English soppian, derivative of the noun (not recorded in ME). See sup2
before 1000; (noun) Middle English; Old English sopp; cognate with Old Norse soppa; (v.) Old English soppian, derivative of the noun (not recorded in ME). See sup2
Synonyms
3. tip, gratuity, payoff.
3. tip, gratuity, payoff.
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sop
O.E. sopp- "bread soaked in some liquid," (in soppcuppe "cup into which sops are put"), from P.Gmc. *suppo, related to O.E. verb suppan (see sup (2)), probably reinforced by O.Fr. soupe (see soup (n.)). Meaning "something given to appease" is from
EXPAND 1665, an allusion to the sop given by the Sibyl to Cerberus in Virgil's "Aeneid."
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Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
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