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Sop vs Pittance - What's the difference?

sop | pittance |

As a verb sop

is (supa).

As a noun pittance is

a small allowance of food and drink; a scanty meal.

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 ----

    pittance

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A small allowance of food and drink; a scanty meal.
  • A meagre allowance of money or wages.
  • * 1898 , , (Moonfleet) Chapter 5
    • So I went to keep house with him at the Why Not? and my aunt sent down my bag of clothes, and would have made over to Elzevir the pittance that my father left for my keep, but he said it was not needful, and he would have none of it.
  • A small amount.