soap

Senso (Inglese)

Noun

1. A metallic salt derived from a fatty acid, commonly used in cleaning products.
2. (informal) Some other substance, often a detergent or another surfactant, able to mix with both oil and water, used for cleaning.
3. (slang) Money, specially when used as a bribe.
4. (informal) A soap opera.
5. A solid masonry unit or brick reduced in depth or height from standard dimensions.

Verb

1. To apply soap to in washing.
2. (informal) To cover, lather, or in any other manner treat with soap, often as a prank.
3. (informal) To be discreet about (a topic).
4. (slang) To flatter; to wheedle.

Sinonimi

soap opera

grievous bodily harm

lather

goop

scoop

max

Georgia home boy

easy lay

liquid ecstasy

wash with soap

cleanser

pod

money

💸

saponify

serial

soapiness

soapy

solvent

story

toilet soap

bar soap

cleansing agent

lather up

powdered soap

sopamin

country-soap

compo rations

aerate

telenovela

animal fats

bath soap

black

cake of soap

corrupt

detergent

filthy

flatter

flattery

foam

gamma

Pronunciato come (IPA)

/soʊp/

Etimologia (Inglese)

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”). 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.