Sopped
21Soppes — sops, pieces of bread sopped in roast drippings, broth, wine, & juices of any kind …
22Soppis — sops, pieces of bread sopped in roast drippings, broth, wine, & juices of any kind …
23Soppys — sops, pieces of bread sopped in roast drippings, broth, wine, & juices of any kind …
24dank — damp, humid, moist, *wet Analogous words: soaked, saturated, sopped or soppy, drenched (see corresponding verbs at SOAK) …
25soak — vb Soak, saturate, drench, steep, impregnate, sop, waterlog can mean to permeate or be permeated with or as if with water. Soak suggests immersion in a liquid so that the substance absorbs the moisture and usually becomes thoroughly wetted,… …
26sop — [[t]sɒp[/t]] n. v. sopped, sop•ping 1) a piece of solid food, as bread, for dipping in liquid food 2) something offered to conciliate, pacify, or bribe 3) to dip or soak in liquid food: to sop bread in gravy[/ex] 4) to drench 5) to take up… …
27sop — /sɒp / (say sop) noun 1. a piece of bread or the like dipped, or for dipping, in liquid food. 2. anything thoroughly soaked. 3. something given to pacify or quiet, or as a bribe. 4. Colloquial a weak or cowardly person. –verb (sopped, sopping)… …
28sop — 1. n. a drunkard; an alcoholic. □ What does the old sop want, a handout? □ Give the old sop a buck and tell him to beat it. 2. tv. & in. to guzzle (liquor). □ Let’s go out and do some serious sopping. □ …
29sop — ► NOUN 1) a thing given or done to appease or bribe someone. 2) a piece of bread dipped in gravy, soup, or sauce. ► VERB (sopped, sopping) (sop up) ▪ soak up (liquid). ORIGIN Old English …
30Milksop — Recorded since the thirteenth century as a term of abuse for a man lacking courage, and still to be heard in school playgrounds, according to the Opies in The Lore and Language of Schoolchildren. The original reference was probably to bread… …
