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Webster 1913 Edition
Sop
Sop
,Noun.
1.
Anything steeped, or dipped and softened, in any liquid; especially, something dipped in broth or liquid food, and intended to be eaten.
He it is to whom I shall give a
sop
, when I have dipped it. John xiii. 26.
Sops
in wine, quantity, inebriate more than wine itself. Bacon.
The bounded waters
Should lift their bosoms higher than the shores,
And make a
Should lift their bosoms higher than the shores,
And make a
sop
of all this solid globe. Shakespeare
2.
Anything given to pacify; – so called from the sop given to Cerberus, as related in mythology.
All nature is cured with a
sop
. L’Estrange.
3.
A thing of little or no value.
[Obs.]
P. Plowman.
Sops in wine
(Bot.)
, an old name of the clove pink, alluding to its having been used to flavor wine.
Garlands of roses and
– sops in wine
. Spenser.
Sops of wine
(Bot.)
, an old European variety of apple, of a yellow and red color, shading to deep red; – called also
sopsavine
, and red shropsavine
. Sop
,Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Sopped
; p. pr. & vb. n.
Sopping
.] To steep or dip in any liquid.
Webster 1828 Edition
Sop
SOP
, n.1.
Anything steeped or dipped and softened in liquor, but chiefly something thus dipped in broth or liquid food, and intended to be eaten. Sops in win, quantity for quantity, inebriate more than win itself.2.
Any thing given to pacify; so called from the sop given to Cerberus, in mythology. Hence the phrase, to give a sop to Cerberus.Definition 2024
sop
sop
English
Noun
sop (plural sops)
- Something entirely soaked.
- Shakespeare
- The bounded waters / Should lift their bosoms higher than the shores, / And make a sop of all this solid globe.
- Shakespeare
- A piece of solid food to be soaked in liquid food.
- Bible, John xiii. 26
- He it is to whom I shall give a sop, when I have dipped it.
- Francis Bacon
- Sops in wine, quantity for quantity, inebriate more than wine itself.
- Bible, John xiii. 26
- Something given or done to pacify or bribe.
- L'Estrange
- All nature is cured with a sop.
- L'Estrange
- A weak, easily frightened or ineffectual person; a milksop
- Gravy. (Appalachia)
- (obsolete) A thing of little or no value.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Piers Plowman to this entry?)
Derived terms
Translations
something entirely soaked
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piece of food to be soaked
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something given or done to pacify or bribe
easily frightened person — see milksop
gravy — see gravy
Verb
sop (third-person singular simple present sops, present participle sopping, simple past and past participle sopped)
- To steep or dip in any liquid.
- 1928, White, Newman Ivey, American Negro Folk-Songs, Cambridge: Harvard University Press, page 227:
- When I die, don't bury me deep, / Put a jug of 'lasses at my feet, / And a piece of corn bread in my hand, / Gwine to sop my way to the promised land.
- 1945 December 27, Post, Emily, “Sopping Bread May Be Done”, in The Spokesman-Review:
- So again let me say that sopping bread into gravy can be done properly merely by putting a piece down on the gravy and then soaking it with the help of a knife and fork as though it were any other food. But taking a soft piece of bread and pushing it under the sauce with your fingers, submerging them as well as the bread, or even wiping the plate with it would be very bad manners indeed.
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