sop
Plural: sops
Noun
- piece of solid food for dipping in a liquid
- a concession given to mollify or placate
- "the offer was a sop to my feelings"
- a prescribed procedure to be followed routinely
- Something entirely soaked.
- A piece of solid food to be soaked in liquid food.
- Ellipsis of sop to Cerberus, something given or done to pacify or bribe.
- Ellipsis of milksop, a weak, easily frightened or ineffectual person.
- Gravy.
- A thing of little or no value.
- A piece of turf placed in the road as a target for a throw in road bowling.
- Clipping of soprano.
Verb
Verb Forms: sopped, sopping, sops
- To dip or soak food in a liquid; to absorb liquid.
- give a conciliatory gift or bribe to
- be or become thoroughly soaked or saturated with a liquid
- dip into liquid
- "sop bread into the sauce"
- cover with liquid; pour liquid onto
- To steep or dip in any liquid.
- To soak in, or be soaked; to percolate.
Examples
- He’d sop up every possible point, even if it meant playing a short, unglamorous word.
Origin / 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.
Synonyms
douse, dowse, drench, soak, soak through, sops, souse, standard operating procedure, standard procedure, standing operating procedure
Scrabble Score: 5
sop: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordsop: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
sop: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary