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sop | scop |

As a verb sop

is (supa).

As a noun scop is

scope.

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 ----

    scop

    English

    (wikipedia scop)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (historical) A poet or minstrel in Anglo-Saxon England.
  • * 1900', Reuben Post Halleck, ''History of English Literature'', quoted in '''1927 , Thomas Tapper, Percy Goetschius, ''Essentials in Music History , 2011, Facsimile Edition, page 42,
    • The kings and nobles often attached to them a scop''''', or maker of verses.The banquet was not complete without the songs of the '''scop'''. While the warriors ate the flesh of boar and deer and warmed their blood with horns of foaming ale, the ' scop , standing where the blaze from a pile of logs disclosed to him the grizzly features of the men, sang his most stirring songs, often accompanying them with the music of a rude harp.
  • * 1991 , R. N. Sarkar, A Topical Survey of English Literature , India, page 1,
    • The poem is, therefore, entitled Widsith'' which means a great traveller. The scop''' was moving from place to place to find a Lord in his desolate mind here.The ''Lament of Deor'' tells a different story. It is the story of sorrow, clearly defined, the sorrow of a similar ' scop who may have been thrown out of favour and led into an eager search of a new master.
  • * 2004 , Richard Marsden, The Cambridge Old English Reader , page 273,
    • During the feast held in Heorot to celebrate Beowulf's mortal wounding of Grendel, the poet has King Hrothgar's scop perform a 'lay' whose theme of death and disaster is clearly meant to act as a sort of balance to the unbridled joy of the hall-people.
  • * 2011 , Hugh Magennis, The Cambridge Introduction to Anglo-Saxon Literature , Cambridge University Press, page 43,
    • The beginning of the poem introduces a speech by Widsith (lines 1—4a), with an accompanying account of his life and travels as a scop :.

    See also

    * scops owl

    Anagrams

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