soap

Plural: soaps

Noun

a cleansing agent made from the salts of vegetable or animal fats
money offered as a bribe
street names for gamma hydroxybutyrate
A metallic salt derived from a fatty acid, commonly used in cleaning products.
Some other substance, often a detergent or another surfactant, able to mix with both oil and water, used for cleaning.
Money, specially when used as a bribe.
A soap opera.
A solid masonry unit or brick reduced in depth or height from standard dimensions.
thiopental (sodium pentothal)

Verb

Verb Forms: soaped, soaping, soaps

To treat, clean, or lather with soap.
rub soap all over, usually with the purpose of cleaning
To apply soap to in washing.
To cover, lather, or in any other manner treat with soap, often as a prank.
To be discreet about (a topic).
To flatter; to wheedle.

Examples

Be sure to soap yourself well before rinsing.
He tried to ’SOAP’ up the board with a bonus word, but missed.
I tried washing my hands with soap, but the stain wouldn't go away.
She went to the shop to buy soap but they have ran out.
Those kids soaped my windows!

Origin / Etymology

From Middle English sope, sape, from Old English sāpe (“soap, salve”), from Proto-West Germanic *saipā, from Proto-Germanic *saipǭ, from Proto-Indo-European *seyb-, *seyp- (“to pour out, drip, trickle, strain”).
Cognate with Scots saip, sape (“soap”), Saterland Frisian Seepe (“soap”), West Frisian sjippe (“soap”), Dutch zeep (“soap”), German Low German Seep (“soap”), German Seife (“soap”), Danish sæbe (“soap”), Swedish såpa (“soap”), Norwegian Bokmål såpe (“soap”), Norwegian Nynorsk såpe (“soap”), Faroese sápa (“soap”), Icelandic sápa (“soap”), Finnish saippua (“soap”), Finnish suopa (“soft soap”). Related also to Old English sāp (“amber, resin, pomade, unguent”), Latin sēbum (“tallow, fat, grease”). See seep. Latin sāpō (“soap”) is a borrowing from the Germanic.

Synonyms

easy lay, Georgia home boy, goop, grievous bodily harm, lather, liquid ecstasy, max, scoop, downplay, soft-pedal, soft-soap, sugar soap

Scrabble Score: 6

soap: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Word
soap: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
soap: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 7

soap: valid Words With Friends Word