Sopped vs Sapped - What's the difference?

sopped | sapped |

As verbs the difference between sopped and sapped

is that sopped is past tense of sop while sapped is past tense of sap.

sopped

English

Verb

(head)

(sop)

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

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sapped

English

Verb

(head)

(sap)

sap

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) sap, from (etyl) ), from *''sap 'to taste'. More at sage.

Noun

(wikipedia sap)

(uncountable) The juice of plants of any kind, especially the ascending and descending juices or circulating fluid essential to nutrition.

(uncountable) The sap-wood, or alburnum, of a tree.

(slang, countable) A simpleton; a saphead; a milksop; a naive person.

Derived terms

(terms derived from sap) * crude sap * elaborated sap * sap ball * sap green * saphead * sapling * sap poison * sap rot * sapsucker * sap tube

Etymology 2

Probably from sapling.

Noun

(en noun)

(countable, US, slang) A short wooden club; a leather-covered hand weapon; a blackjack.

(rfimage)

Verb

(sapp)

(slang) To strike with a sap (with a blackjack).

Etymology 3

From (etyl) saper (compare Spanish zapar and Italian zappare) from .

Noun

(en noun)

(military) A narrow ditch or trench made from the foremost parallel toward the glacis or covert way of a besieged place by digging under cover of gabions, etc.

Derived terms

* sap fagot * sap roller * sapper

Verb

(sapp)

To subvert by digging or wearing away; to mine; to undermine; to destroy the foundation of.

* (rfdate)

Nor safe their dwellings were, for sapped by floods, / Their houses fell upon their household gods.

(military) To pierce with saps.

To make unstable or infirm; to unsettle; to weaken.

* 1850 ,

Ring out the grief that saps the mind

To gradually weaken.

* to sap one’s conscience

To proceed by mining, or by secretly undermining; to execute saps — 12

* (rfdate)

Both assaults carried on by sapping .

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