Sop in Scrabble Dictionary

Valid words made from Sop

You can make 7 words from 'sop' in our Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

• 3 letters words from 'sop'
• 2 letters words from 'sop'

3 letters words from 'sop'

OPS 5	POS 5
SOP 5

2 letters words from 'sop'

OP 4	OS 2
PO 4	SO 2

Definitions and meaning of sop

sop

Etymology

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”). More at sup; compare soup.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /sɒp/
• Rhymes: -ɒp

Noun

sop (plural sops)

1. Something entirely soaked.
2. A piece of solid food to be soaked in liquid food.

   • He it is to whom I shall give a sop, when I have dipped it.

   • 1626, Francis Bacon, Sylva Sylvarum, Or, A Naturall Historie: In Ten Centuries

     Sops in wine, quantity for quantity, inebriate more than wine itself.

3. Something given or done to pacify or bribe.
   • (Can we date this quote by L'Estrange and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)

     All nature is cured with a sop.

   • 1996, Bernard Knox, Introduction to Robert Fagles's translation of The Odyssey:

     The suggested petrification of the ship is a sop to gratify Poseidon and compensate him for a concession--the Phaeacians will not be cut off from the sea.

4. A weak, easily frightened or ineffectual person; a milksop
5. (Appalachia) Gravy.
6. (obsolete) A thing of little or no value.
7. A piece of turf placed in the road as a target for a throw in road bowling.

Derived terms

• sippet

Translations

Verb

sop (third-person singular simple present sops, present participle sopping, simple past and past participle sopped)

1. (transitive) To steep or dip in any liquid.
2. (intransitive) To soak in, or be soaked; to percolate.

Derived terms

• sop up

Translations

Anagrams

• OPS, POS, POs, PSO, ops, pos

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Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch sop, from Old Dutch *sop, from Proto-Germanic *suppą.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sɔp/
• Rhymes: -ɔp

Noun

sop n (plural soppen, diminutive sopje n)

1. water with soap, usually for washing
2. the sea in terms of somebody who will sail on it

Derived terms

• zeepsop

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Indonesian

Noun

sop (plural, first-person possessive sopku, second-person possessive sopmu, third-person possessive sopnya)

1. soup

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Irish

Etymology

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Noun

sop m (genitive singular soip, nominative plural soip)

1. wisp, small bundle (of straw, etc.)
2. straw bedding; (straw) bed

Declension

Derived terms

Verb

sop (present analytic sopann, future analytic sopfaidh, verbal noun sopadh, past participle soptha)

1. (transitive) light with straw

Conjugation

Mutation

Further reading

• "sop" in Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
• Entries containing “sop” in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm, 1959, by Tomás de Bhaldraithe.
• Entries containing “sop” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.

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Middle English

Noun

sop

1. small amount of food
   • c. 1370-1390, William Langland, Piers Plowman

     And if he soupeth, eteth but a sop

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Tok Pisin

Etymology

From English soap.

Noun

sop

1. cleaner

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West Frisian

Etymology

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Noun

sop n (plural soppen, diminutive sopke)

1. juice
2. soup

Derived terms

• sinesappelsop

Further reading

• “sop”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011

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West Uvean

Etymology

From English soap.

Noun

sop

1. soap

References

• Claire Moyse-Faurie, Borrowings from Romance languages in Oceanic languages, in Aspects of Language Contact (2008, →ISBN

Source: wiktionary.org

• without soot.
  (source: Collins Scrabble Dictionary)

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