sop

Definition

Something entirely soaked.

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”). Doublet of soup; more at sup.

Example Sentences

• "The bounded Waters, / Should lift their boſomes higher then the Shores, / And make a ſoppe of all this ſolid Globe:"
• "[…]Hee it is to whom I ſhall giue a ſoppe, when I haue dipped it."
• "[…]Sops in Wine, (Quantitie for Quantitie,) inebriate more, than Wine of it ſelfe."