Sop

Word SOP
Character 3
Hyphenation sop
Pronunciations /sɒp/

Definitions and meanings of "Sop"

What do we mean by sop?

To dip, soak, or drench in a liquid; saturate. transitive verb

To take up by absorption. transitive verb

A piece of food soaked or dipped in a liquid. noun

Something yielded to placate or soothe. noun

A bribe. noun

Something soaked; a morsel, as of bread, dipped in a liquid before being eaten; a piece of bread softened, as in broth or milk, or intended to be so softened. noun

Hence A morsel of food; a small portion of food or drink; a mouthful; a bite. noun

Something given to pacify or quiet; a bribe: so used in allusion to the sop given to Cerberus in order to secure a quiet entrance to the lower world. noun

A small piece; a fragment: a particle; hence, a trifle; a thing of little or no value. noun

To dip or soak in a liquid.

To take up by absorption: followed by up: as, to sop up water with a sponge.

To soak in; penetrate, as a liquid; percolate.

To be drenched; be soaked with wet: as, his clothes were sopping with rain.

An abbreviation of soprano. noun

To steep or dip in any liquid. transitive verb

Anything steeped, or dipped and softened, in any liquid; especially, something dipped in broth or liquid food, and intended to be eaten. noun

Anything given to pacify; -- so called from the sop given to Cerberus, as related in mythology. noun

A thing of little or no value. noun

An old name of the clove pink, alluding to its having been used to flavor wine. noun

Something entirely soaked.

A piece of solid food to be soaked in liquid food.

Something given or done to pacify or bribe.

A weak, easily frightened or ineffectual person; a milksop

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.

Synonyms and Antonyms for Sop

The word "sop" in example sentences

The utility on Friday said it would begin initial compensation payments of up to ¥1 million, or about $12,000, to residents from an 18-mile zone around the plant—an offer some evacuees called an insufficient, short-term sop. ❋ Daisuke Wakabayashi (2011)

But prices are now, at least in our area, $3.75 or so a gallon, and in the meantime domestic oil companies are making record profits and were just thrown a multi-million dollar sop from the energy bill. ❋ Unknown (2005)

Sugar sop is na o'er digestible to th 'best o' 'em. ❋ Unknown (1877)

At that moment the sop is given; offer of friendship is once more made -- and how affectingly! ❋ Unknown (1871)

Guest Katty Kay of BBC World News America also questioned the strategy, saying that it might be a short-term sop to Obama's left-wing base, but it may end up alienating the independent voters that helped elect the president. ❋ Unknown (2009)

This soup looks wonderful..and I enjoyed reading about "sop" -- thinking about it, soup really is great for dipping bread in, so it really makes sense! ❋ Bhags (2008)

Some have heard that he went thence to Augusta; others aver that in their opinion, he travelled away down into the low country "whar they call sop, gravy; again, some say that a man very much like him was seen travelling in the Cherokee country; and not a few contend that he married, and settled in an adjoining eastern county, leading a quiet and blameless life for many years. ❋ Unknown (1845)

In captivity these birds have been found to live well upon sweetened milk-sop, which is made by pouring boiling milk upon crumbled bread or biscuit. ❋ Various (N/A)

Then, too, there is the property clause in the Convention of Madrid, which has been described as the sop by means of which the Powers were induced to accept other less favourable stipulations. ❋ Budgett Meakin (1886)

There are, however, several kinds of fruit besides those which have been already mentioned; particularly the sweet-sop, which is well known to the West Indians, and a small oval fruit, called the _blimbi_, both of which grow upon trees. ❋ Robert Kerr (1784)

It's clear that, despite a one-phrase sop deep in the copy to her "basic humanity," he created a context for Sherrod's speech that was 180 degrees away from the original meaning and that he mischaracterizes the response of her audience. ❋ Unknown (2010)

There was a petition against which lead to a full hearing and the "sop" as Naughtie described it to those against. ❋ Unknown (2009)

When Palin's name was announced as McCain's vice-presidential pick, I initially viewed her as some kind of sop to disgruntled Clinton supporters, somebody who was supposed to appeal to those of us who would rather have seen Hillary at the head of the ticket. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Democrats don't avoid Fox as some kind of sop to the MoveOn. org crowd. ❋ Unknown (2007)

And should we really take this to be the 'sop' that the DUP and UUP are making it out to be? ❋ Johnny Guitar (2007)

He said poverty eradication should not be treated as a "sop" to the poor just to contain them while wealth remained in the hands of some quarters of the population. ❋ Unknown (2002)

The word "sop" was badly chosen, and made the old Squire angry. ❋ Unknown (1993)

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