Sop
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -É’p
Origin
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"). More at sup; compare soup.
Full definition of sop
Noun
sop
(plural sops)- Something entirely soaked.
- ShakespeareThe bounded waters
Should lift their bosoms higher than the shores,
And make a sop of all this solid globe. - A piece of solid food to be soaked in liquid food.
- Bible, John xiii. 26He it is to whom I shall give a sop, when I have dipped it.
- Francis BaconSops in wine, quantity for quantity, inebriate more than wine itself.
- Something given or done to pacify or bribe.
- L'EstrangeAll nature is cured with a sop.
- A weak, easily frightened or ineffectual person; a milksop
- Gravy. (Appalachian)
- (obsolete) A thing of little or no value.