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Sop vs Gog - What's the difference?

sop | gog |

In obsolete terms the difference between sop and gog

is that sop is a thing of little or no value while gog is haste; ardent desire to go.

As nouns the difference between sop and gog

is that sop is something entirely soaked while gog is haste; ardent desire to go.

As a verb sop

is to steep or dip in any liquid.

As an initialism SOP

is initialism of State of Palestine|lang=en.

As a proper noun Gog is

Gog of Magog, a figure mentioned in the Hebrew Bible in Ezekiel 38 and 39, and identified by many with Satan. See the writings of the Apostle John in Revelation 20:8.

sop

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • Something entirely soaked.
  • * Shakespeare
    • The bounded waters / Should lift their bosoms higher than the shores, / And make a sop of all this solid globe.
  • A piece of solid food to be soaked in liquid food.
  • * Bible, John xiii. 26
    • He it is to whom I shall give a sop , when I have dipped it.
  • * Francis Bacon
    • Sops in wine, quantity for quantity, inebriate more than wine itself.
  • Something given or done to pacify or bribe.
  • * L'Estrange
    • All nature is cured with a sop .
  • A weak, easily frightened or ineffectual person; a milksop
  • Gravy. (Appalachian)
  • (obsolete) A thing of little or no value.
    • (Piers Plowman)

    Derived terms

    * sippet

    Verb

    (sopp)
  • To steep or dip in any liquid.
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year = 1928 , title = American Negro Folk-Songs , first = Newman Ivey , last = White , location = Cambridge , publisher = Harvard University Press , page = 227 , pageurl = http://books.google.com/books?id=WCuuV-kRe70C&pg=PA277&dq=sop , passage = When I die, don't bury me deep, / Put a jug of 'lasses at my feet, / And a piece of corn bread in my hand, / Gwine to sop my way to the promised land. }}
  • * {{quote-news
    • , date = 1945-12-27 , title = Sopping Bread May Be Done , first = Emily , last = Post , authorlink = Emily Post , newspaper = The Spokesman-Review , url = http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1314&id=snRWAAAAIBAJ&pg=5333,6920966 , passage = So again let me say that sopping bread into gravy can be done properly merely by putting a piece down on the gravy and then soaking it with the help of a knife and fork as though it were any other food. But taking a soft piece of bread and pushing it under the sauce with your fingers, submerging them as well as the bread, or even wiping the plate with it would be very bad manners indeed. }}

    Derived terms

    * sop up

    Anagrams

    * Appalachian English ----

    gog

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • (obsolete) haste; ardent desire to go
    • (Beaumont and Fletcher)
    (Webster 1913) ----