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noun

Sop n.

Anything steeped, or dipped and softened, in any liquid; especially, something dipped in broth or liquid food, and intended to be eaten. "He it is to whom I shall give a sop, when I have dipped it." "Sops in wine, quantity, inebriate more than wine itself." "The bounded waters Should lift their bosoms higher than the shores, And make a sop of all this solid globe."

Anything given to pacify; so called from the sop given to Cerberus, as related in mythology. "All nature is cured with a sop."

A thing of little or no value. (Obs.)

Sops in wine (Bot.), an old name of the clove pink, alluding to its having been used to flavor wine. "Garlands of roses and sops in wine."

Sops of wine (Bot.), an old European variety of apple, of a yellow and red color, shading to deep red; called also sopsavine, and red shropsavine.

verb

Sop v. t. (past & past part. sopped; pres. part. sopping) To steep or dip in any liquid.

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"Sop" Quotes from Famous Books

... cashier should be put in now," said Meadows, "it would end presently in old Rip Van Winkle's resigning, and then an advance along the whole line would move you up once more." Meadows thought that this sop would reconcile Millard to having ...

— The Faith Doctor - A Story of New York • Edward Eggleston

... would get waste scraps of meat from the butcher for four sous a pound. Blacked and dried out meat that couldn't find a purchaser. She would mix this with potatoes for a stew. On other occasions, when she had some wine, she treated herself to a sop, a true parrot's pottage. Two sous' worth of Italian cheese, bushels of white potatoes, quarts of dry beans, cooked in their own juice, these also were dainties she was not often able to indulge in now. She came down ...

— L'Assommoir • Emile Zola

... "A sop to the conventions," Nancy said, blushing burningly. She was not quite able yet to get her bearings with this extraordinary man, who had assumed charge of her so cavalierly, but she was eager to find her poise in the situation. ...

— Outside Inn • Ethel M. Kelley

... as I came up St. James's-street, I saw a cart and porters at Charles's door; coppers and old chests of drawers loading. In short, his success at faro has awakened his host of creditors; but unless his bank had swelled to the size of the bank of England, it could not have yielded a sop apiece for each. Epsom, too, had been unpropitious; and One creditor has actually seized and carried off his goods, which did not seem worth removing. As I returned full of this scene, whom should I find sauntering by my own door but Charles? ...

— Letters of Horace Walpole, V4 • Horace Walpole

... weren't interested in philosophy and although their knives weren't as sharp as Dad's they didn't lay them down. Afterwards they had themselves a meal, with me for dessert. I remember one of them used a slice of bread to sop up blood like gravy. And another washed his hands and face ...

— The Night of the Long Knives • Fritz Reuter Leiber

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