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sopping

[sop-ing] Origin

sop·ping

[sop-ing]
adjective
soaked; drenched: Her clothes were sopping from the rain.

Origin:
1525–35; sop + -ing2

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sop

[sop] ,noun, verb, sopped, sop·ping.
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.
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


3. tip, gratuity, payoff.

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sopping (ˈsɒpɪŋ)
 
adj
Also: sopping wet completely soaked; wet through

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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
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1665, an allusion to the sop given by the Sibyl to Cerberus in Virgil's "Aeneid."

sopping
"very wet," 1877, from sop (v.) "to drench with moisture" (1682), from sop (q.v.).
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sop definition


  1. n.
    a drunkard; an alcoholic. : Give the old sop a buck and tell him to beat it.
  2. tv. & in.
    to guzzle (liquor). : You've sopped booze long enough. Go home.
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
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sopping (wet) definition


and soppy
  1. mod.
    alcohol intoxicated. (See also wet.) : After about six beers, Ralph found himself a little soppy.
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