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
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
n. a drunkard; an alcoholic. : Give the old sop a buck and tell him to beat it.
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. Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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sopping (wet) definition
and soppy
mod. alcohol intoxicated. (See also wet.) : After about six beers, Ralph found himself a little soppy.
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition. Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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