to sop
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7.3
- verb
- /sɑp/
- Archaic
:
mojar
- You can then use the crusty bread to sop up all the creaminess.
- sop bread
- sop up the sauce
- sop crusty bread
Like when you put like bread, like in water SOP, it's soggy.
- Like when you put like bread, like in water SOP, it's soggy.
Examples
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In Homer, the aristocratic warrior class is always depicted, when eating, feasting on meat and wine, perhaps with some bread to sop up the juice.
Academic text (2011) -
She seemed that morning full of a confused, well-meaning urgency, and she watched me eat as if she were trying to remember something, encouraging me to sop bits of bread into the dripping yolks.
Fiction book (2001) -
Your father broke bread, and you used it to sop up the blood.
Fiction book (1999) -
This time we're gonna sop our bread in The Poet's gravy.
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They are very useful to sop up gravy or butter at the dinner table.
Blog text (18) -
And the good old gravy I like, the biscuits I like to sop that gravy.
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She used a piece of bread to sop up the thick tomato sauce on her plate.
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At dinner, he loved to sop his toast in the warm soup before eating it.
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The chef recommended that guests sop the sauce with fresh bread for extra flavor.
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Etymology
Sop as a verb started from the same idea of dipping bread into liquid — a helpful way to remember it is the phrase sop up, meaning 'to dip in and take up some liquid', which is why to 'sop' is to dip or soak briefly.