SOPPING

soaking, sopping, dripping

(adverb) extremely wet; “dripping wet”; “soaking wet”

SOP

drench, douse, dowse, soak, sop, souse

(verb) cover with liquid; pour liquid onto; “souse water on his hot face”

sop

(verb) dip into liquid; “sop bread into the sauce”

sop, soak through

(verb) be or become thoroughly soaked or saturated with a liquid

sop

(verb) give a conciliatory gift or bribe to

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Adjective

sopping (comparative more sopping, superlative most sopping)

Soaked, drenched, completely wet to the point of dripping.

Verb

sopping

present participle of sop

Anagrams

• oppings

Source: Wiktionary

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sopping

Definition: more recent version of soppy. Used esp. in phrase sopping wet.

SOP

Sop, n. Etym: [OE. sop, soppe; akin to AS. s to sup, to sip, to drink, D. sop sop, G. suppe soup, Icel. soppa sop. See Sup, v. t., and cf. Soup.]

1. 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. John xiii. 26. Sops in wine, quantity, inebriate more than wine itself. Bacon. The bounded waters Should lift their bosoms higher than the shores, And make a sop of all this solid globe. Shak.

2. Anything given to pacify; -- so called from the sop given to Cerberus, as related in mythology. All nature is cured with a sop. L'Estrange.

3. A thing of little or no value. [Obs.] P. Plowman. 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. Spenser.

– 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.

Sop, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Sopped; p. pr. & vb. n. Sopping.]

Definition: To steep or dip in any liquid.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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