n.
  - a thing given or done to appease or bribe someone.
- a piece of bread dipped in gravy, soup, or sauce.
v.
 (sops, sopping, sopped)
 
(
sop something up)
 soak up liquid. 
▸archaic soak.
Etymology
  OE soppian ‘dip bread in liquid’, sopp (n.), prob. from the base of OE sūpan ‘sup’.