sop

Meaning

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.

soak

soak through

sippet

grease one’s palms

Frequency

Pronounced as (IPA)

/sɒp/

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.