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sopping

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sop⋅ping

  [sop-ing]
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–adjective
soaked; drenched: Her clothes were sopping from the rain.
Origin:
1525–35; sop + -ing 2

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 fol. 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 fol. by in).
Origin:
bef. 1000; (n.) ME; OE sopp; c. ON soppa; (v.) OE soppian, deriv. of the n. (not recorded in ME). See sup 2

Synonyms:
3. tip, gratuity, payoff.
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sop   (sŏp)   
tr.v.   sopped, sop·ping, sops

  1. To dip, soak, or drench in a liquid; saturate.

  2. To take up by absorption: sop up water with a paper towel.

n.  

  1. A piece of food soaked or dipped in a liquid.

    1. Something yielded to placate or soothe.

    2. A bribe.


[From Middle English soppe, bread dipped in liquid, from Old English sopp- (in soppcuppe, cup for dipping bread in); see seuə-2 in Indo-European roots.]
sop·ping   (sŏp'ĭng)   
adj.  Thoroughly soaked; drenched.
adv.  Extremely; very: sopping wet.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
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Slang Dictionary
sop

  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.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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sopping (wet)

and soppy
  1. 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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Word Origin & History

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 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.).
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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