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English

Pronunciation

Rhymes: Rhymes:English:-ɒp|-ɒp

Noun

Something entirely soaked
A piece of solid food to be soaked in liquid food
Something given or done to pacify or bribe.

Verb

To steep or dip in any liquid.

Derived terms

sop up

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Dutch

Verb

sop

First person singular of soppen
Singular imperative of soppen

Noun

sop n

water with soap, usually to wash clothes
the sea in terms of somebody who will sail on it

Category:Liquids

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Indonesian

Noun

sop

soup

Category:Indonesian nouns Category:id:Dutch derivations

fr:sop io:sop it:sop sw:sop lt:sop fi:sop te:sop vi:sop tr:sop vo:sop

GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Sop \Sop\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Sopped; p. pr. & vb. n.
Sopping.]
To steep or dip in any liquid.
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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Sop \Sop\, n. [OE. sop, soppe; akin to AS. s?pan to sup, to sip,
to drink, D. sop sop, G. suppe soup, Icel. soppa sop. See
Sup, v. t., and cf. Soup.]
1. Anything steeped, or dipped and softened, in any liquid;
especially, something dipped in broth or liquid food, and
intended to be eaten.
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He it is to whom I shall give a sop, when I have
dipped it. --John xiii.
26.
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Sops in wine, quantity, inebriate more than wine
itself. --Bacon.
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The bounded waters
Should lift their bosoms higher than the shores,
And make a sop of all this solid globe. --Shak.
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2. Anything given to pacify; -- so called from the sop given
to Cerberus, as related in mythology.
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All nature is cured with a sop. --L'Estrange.
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3. A thing of little or no value. [Obs.] --P. Plowman.
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Sops in wine (Bot.), an old name of the clove pink,
alluding to its having been used to flavor wine.
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Garlands of roses and sops in wine. --Spenser.
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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.
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WordNet sop
n 1: piece of solid food for dipping in a liquid [syn: sops]
2: a concession given to mollify or placate; "the offer was a
sop to my feelings"
3: a prescribed procedure to be followed routinely; "rote
memorization has been the educator's standard operating
procedure for centuries" [syn: {standing operating
procedure}, standard operating procedure, {standard
procedure}]
v 1: give a conciliatory gift or bribe to
2: be or become thoroughly soaked or saturated with a liquid
[syn: soak through]
3: dip into liquid; "sop bread into the sauce"
4: mop so as to leave a semi-dry surface; "swab the floors"
5: become thoroughly soaked or saturated with liquid
6: cover with liquid; pour liquid onto; "souse water on his hot
face" [syn: drench, douse, dowse, soak, souse]
[also: sopping, sopped]

Moby Dictionary
Milquetoast , ass , baby , baksheesh , bathe , big baby , boodle ,
born fool , brew , bribe , bribe money , buffoon , buy , buy off ,
chicken , clown , crybaby , deluge , doodle , doormat , douche , douse ,
drench , drouk , drown , dull tool , egregious ass , figure of fun , fix ,
flush , fool , gratification , gratuity , gutless wonder , have ,
hush money , ignoramus , imbrue , imbue , impregnate , infiltrate ,
infuse , inject , invertebrate , jackass , jellyfish , lave , leach ,
lightweight , lixiviate , lubricate , lunatic , macerate , meek soul ,
milksop , mollycoddle , mooncalf , namby-pamby , nebbish , nonentity ,
palm oil , pansy , pantywaist , payoff , payola , percolate ,
perfect fool , permeate , protection , pushover , rinse , sad sack ,
saturate , schmuck , seethe , sissy , soak , sodden , softhead , softling ,
softy , souse , square , steep , stupid ass , sugarplum , tamper with ,
tomfool , wash , waterlog , weak sister , weakling , wet , zany

SOP Standard Operating Procedure

Sop a morsel of bread (John 13:26; comp. Ruth 2:14). Our Lord took a piece of unleavened bread, and dipping it into the broth of bitter herbs at the Paschal meal, gave it to Judas. (Comp. Ruth 2:14.)