souping

Verb (1)

soup (third-person singular simple present soups, present participle souping, simple past and past participle souped)

1. (uncommon) To feed: to provide with soup or a meal.
   • I'm blessed if I've heard about any thing but kangaroo-tail soup all the while I was at Launceston. They souped me there night and day.1845, Charles Rowcroft, Tales of the Colonies: Or, The Adventures of an Emigrant, page 432
2. To develop (film) in a (chemical) developing solution.
   • That girl Vivienne, by the way, once worked as a secretary in the workshop of The Rotarian, began "souping" her own snapshots at home, went from there to top rank as a New York color photographer specializing in small children […]1970 December, The Rotarian, volume 117, number 6, page 31
3. (obsolete) To proselytize by feeding the impoverished as long as they listen to one's preaching.
   • Was the priest who denounced those books of the National Board as "souping books" the patron of a national school?1855, William Le Poer Trench, A Digest of the Evidence, Taken Before the Select Committee of the House of Lords, page 280

Verb (2)

soup (third-person singular simple present soups, present participle souping, simple past and past participle souped)

1. (obsolete) To sweep.
   • He vaunts his voice upon an hired stage, With high-set steps and princely carriage, Now souping in side robes of royalty.1597, Joseph Hall, Virgidemiarum

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