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sop

sop
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Transcription

    • US Pronunciation
    • US IPA
    • UK Pronunciation
    • UK IPA
    • [sop]
    • /sɒp/
    • /sɒp/
    • US Pronunciation
    • US IPA
    • [sop]
    • /sɒp/

Definitions of sop word

  • noun sop a piece of solid food, as bread, for dipping in liquid food. 1
  • noun sop anything thoroughly soaked. 1
  • noun sop something given to pacify or quiet, or as a bribe: The political boss gave him some cash as a sop. 1
  • noun sop a weak-willed or spineless person; milksop. 1
  • verb with object sop to dip or soak in liquid food: to sop bread in gravy. 1
  • verb with object sop to drench. 1

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Origin of sop

First appearance:

before 1000
One of the 6% oldest English words
before 1000; (noun) Middle English; Old English sopp; cognate with Old Norse soppa; (v.) Old English soppian, derivative of the noun (not recorded in ME). See sup2

Historical Comparancy

Parts of speech for Sop

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation

sop popularity

A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 84% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.
Most Europeans know this English word. The frequency of it’s usage is somewhere between "mom" and "screwdriver".

sop usage trend in Literature

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Synonyms for sop

verb sop

  • bedew — to wet or cover with or as if with drops of dew
  • bespatter — to splash all over, as with dirty water
  • blow out — If you blow out a flame or a candle, you blow at it so that it stops burning.
  • boozing — any alcoholic beverage; whiskey.

noun sop

  • bite — If you bite something, you use your teeth to cut into it, for example in order to eat it or break it. If an animal or person bites you, they use their teeth to hurt or injure you.
  • brunch — Brunch is a meal that is eaten in the late morning. It is a combination of breakfast and lunch.
  • buyoff — a purchase
  • feedbag — Also called nose bag. a bag for feeding horses, placed before the mouth and fastened around the head with straps.

adj sop

  • customary — Customary is used to describe things that people usually do in a particular society or in particular circumstances.
  • in a rut — stuck in routine
  • in the groove — a long, narrow cut or indentation in a surface, as the cut in a board to receive the tongue of another board (tongue-and-groove joint) a furrow, or a natural indentation on an organism.

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