sop
English
/sɒp/
noun
Definitions
- 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
- (Appalachian) Gravy.
- (obsolete) A thing of little or no value.
- A piece of turf placed in the road as a target for a throw in road bowling.
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English sop inherited from Old English sopa (sopped bread) inherited from Proto-Germanic *supô (soup, broth).
Origin
Proto-Germanic
*supô
Gloss
soup, broth
Concept
Semantic Field
Food and drink
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- milk English
- milksop English
- milksopism English
- milksoppery English
- milksoppish English
- milksoppy English
- sopper English
- soppily English
- soppiness English
- soppy English
- sour English
- soursop English
- sweet English
- sweetsop English
- unsoppy English
- wine English
- winesop English
- suppa Latin
- sop Dutch, Flemish
- soupe French
- *supô Proto-Germanic
- サワーソップ Japanese
- sopa Old English
- milksop Middle English
- sop Middle English
- sop Middle Dutch
- sope Middle Low German
- *sopo Old Saxon
- *soppe Old Frisian
- sauasap Tok Pisin
- sausap Tok Pisin
- Soppe Saterland Frisian