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Word entry · 3 letters

sop

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"Soaked piece"

3 letters · collected on this word page

3 lettersPronunciation /sɒp/Part of speech verb, nounSorted opsStarts with SEnds with P1 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. cover with liquid; pour liquid onto

Word origin

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”). Doublet of soup; more at sup.

Used in a sentence

  • “The bounded Waters, / Should lift their boſomes higher then the Shores, / And make a ſoppe of all this ſolid Globe:”
  • “[…]Hee it is to whom I ſhall giue a ſoppe, when I haue dipped it.”
  • “[…]Sops in Wine, (Quantitie for Quantitie,) inebriate more, than Wine of it ſelfe.”

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