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Sop vs Lop - What's the difference?

sop | lop |

As nouns the difference between sop and lop

is that sop is something entirely soaked while lop is a flea.

As verbs the difference between sop and lop

is that sop is to steep or dip in any liquid while lop is to cut off as the top or extreme part of anything, especially to prune a small limb off a shrub or tree, or sometimes to behead someone.

As an initialism SOP

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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 ----

    lop

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (Geordie) A flea.
    • (Cleveland)
    Hadway wi ye man, ye liftin wi lops

    References

    * * * * * * * *

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) loppe.

    Verb

    (lopp)
  • (usually with off) To cut off as the top or extreme part of anything, especially to prune a small limb off a shrub or tree, or sometimes to behead someone.
  • To hang downward; to be pendent; to lean to one side.
  • To allow to hang down.
    • to lop the head
    Synonyms
    * (to cut off)
    Derived terms
    * lopper, loppers

    See also

    * defalcate

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • That which is lopped from anything, such as branches from a tree.
    • (Shakespeare)
    (Mortimer)

    References

    *

    Etymology 3

    from lopsided.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (US, slang) A disabled person, a cripple.
  • * 1935 : Rex Stout, The League of Frightened Men , p5
    • "He's a lop ; it mentions here about his getting up to the stand with his crippled leg but it doesn't say which one."
  • Any of several breeds of rabbits whose ears lie flat.

    • See also

    * lob

    Anagrams

    * (l) * (l), (l) ---- ==Franco-Provençal==

    Noun

  • wolf
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