sop
9.1
A piece of bread used to dip into soup or sauce
- noun
- /sɑp/
- Archaic
:
pan para mojar
- The chef recommended to use a fresh sop to enjoy every drop of the flavorful soup.
Examples
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In fact, Baugh notes that the word can be further shortened to be pronounced /sop/ (61).
Academic text (2003) -
He used a piece of bread as a sop to soak up the delicious sauce from his plate.
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At dinner, she took a sop of bread and dipped it into the rich gravy of her roast.
Surface Forms
Etymology
Sop comes from an old English word for a piece of bread soaked in liquid, so a 'sop' is literally bread used to soak up soup or sauce.
