| 单词 | bread-and-water sop |
| 释义 | > as lemmasbread-and-water sop 1. A piece of bread dipped or soaked in water; also as a mass noun. Also more fully bread-and-water sop. Also figurative: †a water-drinker, a teetotaller (obsolete). ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > bread > bread dish > [noun] > sops > a sop sopa1000 wine-sop14.. milksopa1475 water-sopa1500 honeysop?a1513 sippet1530 sipping1535 sup1543 miser1594 sop in the pana1625 joy-sop1648 soppet1664 a1500 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 742/6 Ipa, a watyrsope. 1816 W. Scott Black Dwarf vi, in Tales of my Landlord 1st Ser. I. 121 ‘All clear away, with the water-saps and panada,’ returned the unabashed convalescent. 1841 R. W. Emerson Jrnl. 24 Oct. (1911) VI. 102 We had become canting moths of peace, our helm was a skillet, and now we must become temperance water-sops. 1861 J. Addison Crow's Nest Farm xxiv. 269 ‘I wish you'd have some beer, Nancy. I mostly takes water-sop, myself’—crumb of bread soaked in hot water, with a little salt to it. 1868 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 8 Aug. 143/1 She feeds them with bread-and-water sop. 1903 Avicultural Mag. Nov. 37 Artificial food they would not touch except occasionally some biscuit water-sop. 1911 E. S. Tylee Witch Ladder xi. 95 A 'nation good mind I have to send ye back to your aunt and bread-and-water sop three times a day, I have! < as lemmas |
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