Note: these 'words' (valid or invalid) are all the permutations of the word sop. These words are obtained by scrambling the letters in sop.
Definitions and meaning of sop
sop
Alternative forms
soppe (obsolete)
Etymology
From Middle Englishsop, soppe, sope, from Old Englishsopa(“sopped bread”), from Proto-Germanic*supô (compare Dutchsop, Old High Germansopfa), deverbative of *sūpaną(“to sup”). More at sup; compare soup.
Pronunciation
(Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /sɒp/
Rhymes: -ɒp
Noun
sop (pluralsops)
Something entirely soaked.
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.
Something given or done to pacify or bribe.
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.
That agreement, with its lofty promises of “one country, two systems,” was a fig leaf, as most knew at the time — a sop to Western consciences guilty for condemning the people of Hong Kong to their ultimate fate as wards of Beijing. What is happening today is exactly what was predicted and exactly what Chinese leaders intended. Our outrage, while appropriate, is also embarrassing.
A weak, easily frightened or ineffectual person; a milksop
(Appalachia) Gravy.
(obsolete) A thing of little or no value.
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 presentsops, present participlesopping, simple past and past participlesopped)
(transitive) To steep or dip in any liquid.
(intransitive) To soak in, or be soaked; to percolate.
Derived terms
sop up
Translations
Anagrams
OPS, OPS+, OPs, POS, POs, PSO, ops, pos
Dutch
Etymology
From Middle Dutchsop(“soup”), from Old Dutch*sop, from Proto-Germanic*suppą. In the sense “water with soap” it is a shortening of zeepsop.
sop (present analyticsopann, future analyticsopfaidh, verbal nounsopadh, past participlesoptha)
(transitive) light with straw
Conjugation
Mutation
Further reading
Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “sop”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
"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.
Middle English
Noun
sop
small amount of food
c. 1370-1390, William Langland, Piers Plowman
And if he soupeth, eteth but a sop
Tok Pisin
Etymology
From Englishsoap.
Noun
sop
cleaner
West Frisian
Etymology
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Noun
sopn (pluralsoppen, diminutivesopke)
juice
soup
Derived terms
sinesappelsop
Further reading
“sop”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011
West Uvean
Etymology
From Englishsoap.
Noun
sop
soap
References
Claire Moyse-Faurie, Borrowings from Romance languages in Oceanic languages, in Aspects of Language Contact (2008, →ISBN