sop.
Something entirely soaked.
Meaning & usage
Something entirely soaked.
A piece of solid food to be soaked in liquid food.
Ellipsis of sop to Cerberus, something given or done to pacify or bribe.
Ellipsis of milksop, a weak, easily frightened or ineffectual person.
Gravy.
A thing of little or no value.
A piece of turf placed in the road as a target for a throw in road bowling.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English sop, soppe, sope, from Old English sopa (“sopped bread”), from Proto-Germanic *supô (compare Dutch sop, Old High German sopfa), deverbative of *sūpaną (“to sup”). Doublet of soup; more at sup.
To steep or dip in any liquid.
To soak in, or be soaked; to percolate.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English sop, soppe, sope, from Old English sopa (“sopped bread”), from Proto-Germanic *supô (compare Dutch sop, Old High German sopfa), deverbative of *sūpaną (“to sup”). Doublet of soup; more at sup.
Clipping of soprano.
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