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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
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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 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
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