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sop
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Wiktionary
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n. 1 Something entirely soaked. 2 A piece of solid food to be soaked in liquid food. 3 Something given or done to pacify or bribe. 4 A weak, easily frightened or ineffectual person; a milksop 5 gravy. (context Appalachian English) 6 (context obsolete English) ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
v. give a conciliatory gift or bribe to be or become thoroughly soaked or saturated with a liquid [syn: soak through ] dip into liquid; "sop bread into the sauce" mop so as to leave a semi-dry surface; "swab the floors" become thoroughly soaked or saturated ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
A sop is a piece of bread or toast that is drenched in liquid and then eaten. In medieval cuisine , sops were very common; they were served with broth , soup or wine , and then picked apart into smaller pieces to soak in the liquid. At elaborate feasts, ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Old English sopp- "bread soaked in some liquid," (in soppcuppe "cup into which sops are put"), from Proto-Germanic *supp- , related to Old English verb suppan (see sup (v.2)), probably reinforced by Old French soupe (see soup (n.)). Meaning "something given ...
Usage examples of sop.
The angioplasty to Breit was just a sop, kid stuff, until the knives could descend.
And can the magician a fortune divine Without lily, germander, and sops in wine?
With hither and thither, as straight as a line, With lily, germander, and sops in wine.
Duke, a Duke who wears green, In lands where the sun and the moon do not shine, With lily, germander, and sops in wine.
Aubrey did live there lived no poor, The lord and the beggar on roots did dine With lily, germander, and sops in wine.
And Life is a nymph who will never be thine, With lily, germander, and sops in wine.
Holding his crippled hand away from his body with the fingers curled into a throbbing fist to hide the sopping bandage, he began to walk toward the elevator on legs that seemed jointless and ten yards long.
Hij liet Reyes een tijdje in zijn sop gaar koken voordat hij verder ging met het ophalen van herinneringen.
For thirteen more lunchless hours, they zigzagged among mossy boulders and through sopping streamers of feverish heat, attended by squadrons of black flies that refused to quit them until a late afternoon downpour literally drowned the biting bugs in midair.
Colonel Mering said, seeming to notice for the first time that the sleeve he was holding onto was sopping wet.
No more than five and a half feet tall, Ogg looked as though he might just tip the scales at 120 pounds, sopping wet.
Daily you pored over page after blank page, imagining you sopped up great stores of knowledge, when really you only mulled facts already planted in your own mind.
Mayor of Riceys, a republican, got up this action as a sop to his people.
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Sitting the stream bank, Adira sopped her shirt on rocks and rung it out.