sop

Meanings

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.

Verb

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

Origin

• From Middle English sop, soppe, sope, from Old English sopa, from Proto-Germanic *supô (compare Dutch sop, Old High German sopfa), deverbative of *sūpaną. More at sup; compare soup.