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

1. Something entirely soaked.
• ShakespeareThe bounded waters
  Should lift their bosoms higher than the shores,
  And make a sop of all this solid globe.
2. 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.
3. Something given or done to pacify or bribe.
• L'EstrangeAll nature is cured with a sop.
4. A weak, easily frightened or ineffectual person; a milksop
5. Gravy. (Appalachian)
6. (obsolete) A thing of little or no value.

Derived terms

• sippet

Verb

1. To steep or dip in any liquid.

Derived terms

• sop up

Anagrams

• ops , OPS, pos, POS, PSO