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noun

Sop n.

Anything steeped, or dipped and softened, in any liquid; especially, something dipped in broth or liquid food, and intended to be eaten. "He it is to whom I shall give a sop, when I have dipped it." "Sops in wine, quantity, inebriate more than wine itself." "The bounded waters Should lift their bosoms higher than the shores, And make a sop of all this solid globe."

Anything given to pacify; so called from the sop given to Cerberus, as related in mythology. "All nature is cured with a sop."

A thing of little or no value. (Obs.)

Sops in wine (Bot.), an old name of the clove pink, alluding to its having been used to flavor wine. "Garlands of roses and sops in wine."

Sops of wine (Bot.), an old European variety of apple, of a yellow and red color, shading to deep red; called also sopsavine, and red shropsavine.

verb

Sop v. t. (past & past part. sopped; pres. part. sopping) To steep or dip in any liquid.

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"Sop" Quotes from Famous Books

... devil himself," was the sop that argument offered to his heated imagination. "She knows I hate Deauville like poison, and of course it's to Deauville she must go for the honeymoon. And she looks so confoundedly pretty when she's in a temper—what ...

— The Best British Short Stories of 1922 • Various

... several gleams of sunshine and a great deal of bustle and movement on the various platforms. A cheery activity pervaded the place. Porters on every hand were giving their celebrated imitations of the car of Juggernaut, throwing as a sop to the wounded a crisp "by your leave." Agitated ladies were pouring forth questions with the rapidity of machine guns. Long queues surged at the mouths of the booking offices, inside which soured clerks, sending lost sheep empty away, were learning once ...

— Love Among the Chickens - A Story of the Haps and Mishaps on an English Chicken Farm • P. G. Wodehouse

... forgot the day when Everett found them ill-treating a little dog; how he rescued it from them, single-handed, and knocked down young Brooke, who attacked him both with insults and blows. Dick, not ill-pleased, was looking on. He never called his brother a "sop" from that day, but praised him and patronized him considerably for a good while after, and began, as he said, "to ...

— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 5, No. 28, February, 1860 • Various

... breathing time to Rome, reinforced and comforted Rome's partisans in the Romagna—have induced doubt, fear, and disunion throughout Italy. Judging by the experience of the last eight years, I must say I saw no means of avoiding the rocks ahead save by a sop to Cerberus. But do not lose confidence in the National party—Cavour or no Cavour, Victor Emmanuel or another, that party is determined to give Italy an Italian representation. I regret that the Nizzards (who have a ...

— Lady John Russell • Desmond MacCarthy and Agatha Russell

... unimpressed, though he did not venture very near the beast. "You've only to teach it to jump through a hoop, and you'd make quite a decent Music-hall 'turn' together. What do you feed it on, eh? Sop—or canary-seed?" ...

— In Brief Authority • F. Anstey

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