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# [[small]] amount of food |
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Revision as of 23:45, 16 June 2020
English
Etymology
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.
Pronunciation
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- Rhymes: -ɒp
Audio (UK): (file)
Noun
sop (plural sops)
- Something entirely soaked.
- c. 1602, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Troylus and Cressida”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iii]:
- The 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.
- 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, John 13:26:
- He it is to whom I shall give a sop, when I have dipped it.
- Template:RQ:Bacon SS
- Sops in wine, quantity for quantity, inebriate more than wine itself.
- Something given or done to pacify or bribe.
- (Can we date this quote by L'Estrange and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
- All nature is cured with a sop.
- 1996, Bernard Knox, Introduction to Robert Fagles's translation of The Odyssey:
- The suggested petrification of the ship is a sop to gratify Poseidon and compensate him for a concession--the Phaeacians will not be cut off from the sea.
- (Can we date this quote by L'Estrange and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
- A weak, easily frightened or ineffectual person; a milksop
- (Appalachia) Gravy.
- (obsolete) A thing of little or no value.
- A piece of turf placed in the road as a target for a throw in road bowling.
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Verb
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- (transitive) To steep or dip in any liquid.
- 1928, Newman Ivey White, American Negro Folk-Songs, Cambridge: Harvard University Press, page 227:
- When I die, don't bury me deep, / Put a jug of 'lasses at my feet, / And a piece of corn bread in my hand, / Gwine to sop my way to the promised land.
- 1945 December 27, Emily Post, “Sopping Bread May Be Done”, in The Spokesman-Review[1]:
- So again let me say that sopping bread into gravy can be done properly merely by putting a piece down on the gravy and then soaking it with the help of a knife and fork as though it were any other food. But taking a soft piece of bread and pushing it under the sauce with your fingers, submerging them as well as the bread, or even wiping the plate with it would be very bad manners indeed.
- (intransitive) To soak in, or be soaked; to percolate.
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Dutch
Etymology
From Middle Dutch sop, from Old Dutch *sop, from Proto-Germanic *suppą.
Pronunciation
Noun
sop n (plural soppen, diminutive sopje n)
- water with soap, usually for washing
- the sea in terms of somebody who will sail on it
- Het ruime sop kiezen.
- To set sail.
Derived terms
Indonesian
Noun
sop (first-person possessive sopku, second-person possessive sopmu, third-person possessive sopnya)
Irish
Etymology
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Noun
sop m (genitive singular soip, nominative plural soip)
Declension
Derived terms
- dul chun soip (“to go to bed”)
- sop a chur faoin eallach (“to bed down the cattle”)
- sop de dhuine (“wispy person; unkempt person”)
- sop reaca (“vintner’s bush”)
- sop siúirdín, sop siúirlín (“twisted wisp of straw as light for pipe”)
- sop srathrach (“straddle-mat”)
- sopachán m (“straw bedding; straw pallet, shakedown; nesting material; wispy person; unkempt person”)
- sopaireacht f (“(act of) gathering wisps (for bedding, nest)”)
- sopán m, sopóg f (“(little) wisp; little bundle, handful, of straw, etc.; torch (of straw, bog-deal)”)
- sopcheann m (“mophead”)
- tuidín soip (“trumpery thing”)
Verb
sop (present analytic sopann, future analytic sopfaidh, verbal noun sopadh, past participle soptha)
- (transitive) light with straw
Conjugation
* indirect relative
† archaic or dialect form
‡‡ dependent form used with particles that trigger eclipsis
Mutation
Irish mutation | ||
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Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
sop | shop after an, tsop |
not applicable |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
Further reading
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “sop”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “sop”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
- “sop”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024
Middle English
Noun
sop
- small amount of food
- c. 1370-1390, William Langland, Piers Plowman
- And if he soupeth, eteth but a sop
- c. 1370-1390, William Langland, Piers Plowman
Tok Pisin
Etymology
Noun
sop
- cleaner
- sop bilong tit ― toothpaste
West Frisian
Etymology
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Noun
sop n (plural soppen, diminutive sopke)
Derived terms
Further reading
- “sop”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011
West Uvean
Etymology
Noun
sop
References
- Claire Moyse-Faurie, Borrowings from Romance languages in Oceanic languages, in Aspects of Language Contact (2008, →ISBN
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