soap
Meaning
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- A metallic salt derived from a fatty acid, commonly used in cleaning products.
- (informal) Some other substance, often a detergent or another surfactant, able to mix with both oil and water, used for cleaning.
- (slang) Money, specially when used as a bribe.
- (informal) A soap opera.
- A solid masonry unit or brick reduced in depth or height from standard dimensions.
Concepts
soap
soap opera
lather
Georgia home boy
easy lay
goop
grievous bodily harm
liquid ecstasy
max
scoop
cleanser
pod
wash with soap
lather up
cleansing agent
solvent
sopamin
aerate
foam
flattery
money
flatter
country-soap
detergent
gamma
soapiness
toilet soap
saponify
soapy
bar soap
powdered soap
bath soap
story
cake of soap
compo rations
serial
telenovela
animal fats
black
corrupt
filthy
Frequency
Pronounced as (IPA)
/soʊp/
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”). 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.
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