sop

Signification (English)

Noun

1. Something entirely soaked.
2. A piece of solid food to be soaked in liquid food.
3. Ellipsis of sop to Cerberus; something given or done to pacify or bribe.
4. Ellipsis of milksop; a weak, easily frightened or ineffectual person.
5. Gravy.
6. (obsolete) A thing of little or no value.
7. A piece of turf placed in the road as a target for a throw in road bowling.

Verb

1. To steep or dip in any liquid.
2. To soak in, or be soaked; to percolate.

Concepts

tremper

éponger

🧽

mouiller

immerger

trempé

Synonyms

soak

douse

souse

bribe

drench

steep

dowse

soak through

duck

🦆

immerse

wet

sops

dive

drenched

dunk

erase

gift

🎁

gravy

humidify

imbrue

infuse

kickback

lure

macerate

milksop

moisturise

palliative

payoff

pay off

payola

plunge

puddle

ret

saturate

sippet

submerge

submerse

suborn

tip

wash

🧽

kick back

water

🚰

absorbent

grease one’s palms

bait

baptise

baptize

charity

christen

corrupt

crumb

dabble

dampen

decoy

dip

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/sɒp/

Étymologie (English)

Inherited from moyen anglais: sop

Inherited from ancien anglais: sopa

Cognate with néerlandais: sop

Cognate with ancien haut allemand: sopfa

In summary

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.