Sopping
adjective
1.
soaked; drenched:
Her clothes were sopping from the rain.
noun
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.
verb (used with object), sopped, sopping.
5.
to dip or soak in liquid food:
to sop bread in gravy.
6.
to drench.
7.
to take up (liquid) by absorption (usually followed by up):
He used bread to sop up the gravy.
verb (used without object), sopped, sopping.
8.
to be or become soaking wet.
9.
(of a liquid) to soak (usually followed by in).
adjective
1.
completely soaked; wet through Also sopping wet
noun
1.
(often pl) food soaked in a liquid before being eaten
2.
a concession, bribe, etc, given to placate or mollify: a sop to one’s feelings
3.
(informal) a stupid or weak person
verb sops, sopping, sopped
4.
(transitive) to dip or soak (food) in liquid
5.
when intr, often foll by in. to soak or be soaked
abbreviation
1.
standard operating procedure
SOP
SOP
standard operating procedure
a morsel of bread (John 13:26; comp. Ruth 2:14). Our Lord took a piece of unleavened bread, and dipping it into the broth of bitter herbs at the Paschal meal, gave it to Judas. (Comp. Ruth 2:14.)
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