soppe
soppe is the obsolete spelling of sop.
Meaning of sop
Noun
sop (countable and uncountable, plural sops)
- Something entirely soaked.
- The bounded Waters, / Should lift their boſomes higher then the Shores, / And make a ſoppe of all this ſolid Globe:c. 1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Troylus and Cressida”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and...
- A piece of solid food to be soaked in liquid food.
- […]Hee it is to whom I ſhall giue a ſoppe, when I haue dipped it.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, John 13:26, column 1
- Gravy.
- A thing of little or no value.
- Here, in Barcelona, your streets are alive at night, you walk, you eat for hours, you interact, you share your minds. Americans watch their 91 channels of superficial satellite sop. The whole country and everything you've ever believed about it really functions only on the surface.1988 August 20, Rex Wockner, “Nobody Can Do It Like The USA”, in Gay Community News, volume 16, number 6, page 5
- A piece of turf placed in the road as a target for a throw in road bowling.
Forms of soppe
| plural | soppes |
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Questions about soppe
- What is soppe the obsolete spelling of?
- Soppe is the obsolete spelling of sop.
Words near soppe in the dictionary
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