单词 | sop |
释义 | sop /sop/, n. , v. , sopped, sopping. n. 1. a piece of solid food, as bread, for dipping in liquid food. 2. anything thoroughly soaked. 3. something given to pacify or quiet, or as a bribe: The political boss gave him some cash as a sop. 4. a weak-willed or spineless person; milksop. v.t. 5. to dip or soak in liquid food: to sop bread in gravy. 6. to drench. 7. to take up (liquid) by absorption (usually fol. by up): He used bread to sop up the gravy. v.i. 8. to be or become soaking wet. 9. (of a liquid) to soak (usually fol. by in). [bef. 1000; (n.) ME; OE sopp; c. ON soppa; (v.) OE soppian, deriv. of the n. (not recorded in ME). See SUP2] Syn. 3. tip, gratuity, payoff. |
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