Sop vs Sodden - What's the difference?

sop | sodden |

As verbs the difference between sop and sodden

is that sop is (supa) while sodden is to drench, soak or saturate.

As an adjective sodden is

soaked or drenched with liquid; soggy, saturated.

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 ----

sodden

English

Adjective

(en adjective)

Soaked or drenched with liquid; soggy, saturated.

* 1810 , , Volume XII, 4th Edition, page 702,

It is found, indeed, that meat, roa?ted by a fire of peat or turf, is more ?odden than when coal is employed for that purpo?e.

* 1895 February, James Rodway, Nature's Triumph'', '' , page 460,

The outfalls are choked, the dams are perforated by crabs or broken down by floods, and soon the ground becomes more and more sodden .

* 2014, (Paul Salopek), Blessed. Cursed. Claimed. , National Geographic (December 2014)[http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2014/12/pilgrim-roads/salopek-text]

A miraculous desert rain. We slog, dripping, into As Safi, Jordan. We drive the sodden mules through wet streets. To the town’s only landmark. To the “Museum at the Lowest Place on Earth.”

(figuratively) Drunk; stupid as a result of drunkenness.

* 1857 , , 1899, Reprint Edition, page 60,

With this profession of faith, the doctor, who was an old jail-bird, and was more sodden than usual, and had the additional and unusual stimulus of money in his pocket, returned to his associate and chum in hoarseness, puffiness, redfacedness, all-fours, tobacco, dirt, and brandy.

* 2010 , , The Cameron Delusion , page 79,

I would have done too, but alcohol makes me so ill that I couldn't (I mention this to make it clear that I don't claim any moral superiority over my more sodden colleagues).

Derived terms

* soddenly * soddenness

Verb

(en verb)

To drench, soak or saturate.

* 1898 , , (Moonfleet) Chapter 4

But as I lay asleep the top had been pressed off the box, and the tinder got loose in my pocket; and though I picked the tinder out easily enough, and got it in the box again, yet the salt damps of the place had soddened it in the night, and spark by spark fell idle from the flint.

To become soaked.