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’.