Sop vs Sou - What's the difference?
sop | sou |
Something entirely soaked.
* Shakespeare
A piece of solid food to be soaked in liquid food.
* Bible, John xiii. 26
* Francis Bacon
Something given or done to pacify or bribe.
* L'Estrange
A weak, easily frightened or ineffectual person; a milksop
Gravy. (Appalachian)
(obsolete) A thing of little or no value.
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.
}}
As a verb sop
is (supa).As an acronym sou is
statens offentliga utredningar; official reports of the swedish government, identified by year and number, eg sou 2009:16.sop
English
Noun
(en noun)- The bounded waters / Should lift their bosoms higher than the shores, / And make a sop of all this solid globe.
- He it is to whom I shall give a sop , when I have dipped it.
- Sops in wine, quantity for quantity, inebriate more than wine itself.
- All nature is cured with a sop .
- (Piers Plowman)
