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"etymology_text": "From Middle English sop, soppe, sope, from Old English sopa (“sopped bread”), from Proto-Germanic *supô (compare Dutch sop, Old High German sopfa), deverbative of *sūpaną (“to sup”). More at sup; compare soup.",
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"Something entirely soaked."
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"code": "ka",
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"word": "დასველებული"
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"roman": "potopen zalǎk",
"sense": "piece of food to be soaked",
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"sense": "piece of food to be soaked",
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"word": "تریت"
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"sense": "piece of food to be soaked",
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"ref": "1996, Bernard Knox, Introduction to Robert Fagles's translation of The Odyssey",
"text": "The suggested petrification of the ship is a sop to gratify Poseidon and compensate him for a concession--the Phaeacians will not be cut off from the sea."
},
{
"ref": "2020, Robert Kagan, “China’s dangerous Taiwan temptation”, in Washington Post",
"text": "That agreement, with its lofty promises of “one country, two systems,” was a fig leaf, as most knew at the time — a sop to Western consciences guilty for condemning the people of Hong Kong to their ultimate fate as wards of Beijing. What is happening today is exactly what was predicted and exactly what Chinese leaders intended. Our outrage, while appropriate, is also embarrassing.",
"type": "quotation"
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{
"ref": "2024 January 2, David A. Graham, “An Old-Fashioned Scandal Fells a New Harvard President”, in The Atlantic",
"text": "Conservatives have long had it out for Gay, Harvard’s first Black president, whose appointment they viewed as a sop to progressive diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives.",
"type": "quotation"
}
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"(figurative) Ellipsis of sop to Cerberus; something given or done to pacify or bribe."
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"sense": "something given or done to pacify or bribe",
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"sense": "something given or done to pacify or bribe",
"tags": [
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"sense": "something given or done to pacify or bribe",
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"sense": "something given or done to pacify or bribe",
"word": "zoenoffer"
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"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "something given or done to pacify or bribe",
"word": "lahjus"
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"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "something given or done to pacify or bribe",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Beruhigungspille"
},
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"code": "de",
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"sense": "something given or done to pacify or bribe",
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"word": "Besänftigungsmittel"
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"_dis1": "2 1 90 1 4 0 2",
"code": "de",
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"sense": "something given or done to pacify or bribe",
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"roman": "podáčka",
"sense": "something given or done to pacify or bribe",
"tags": [
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],
"word": "пода́чка"
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"word": "milksop"
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"(Appalachia) Gravy."
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"ref": "1988 August 20, Rex Wockner, “Nobody Can Do It Like The USA”, in Gay Community News, volume 16, number 6, page 5",
"text": "Here, in Barcelona, your streets are alive at night, you walk, you eat for hours, you interact, you share your minds. Americans watch their 91 channels of superficial satellite sop. The whole country and everything you've ever believed about it really functions only on the surface.",
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"A thing of little or no value."
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"(obsolete) A thing of little or no value."
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"A piece of turf placed in the road as a target for a throw in road bowling."
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"text": "Audio (Southern England)"
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"ref": "1687, John Aubrey, Remaines of Gentilisme and Judaisme, page 29",
"text": "A messe of milke sopt with white bread.",
"type": "quotation"
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{
"ref": "1928, Newman Ivey White, American Negro Folk-Songs, Cambridge: Harvard University Press, page 227",
"text": "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.",
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"ref": "1945 December 27, Emily Post, “Sopping Bread May Be Done”, in The Spokesman-Review",
"text": "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.",
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"(transitive) To steep or dip in any liquid."
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"_dis1": "80 20",
"code": "bg",
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"roman": "nakisvam",
"sense": "to steep or dip in liquid",
"word": "накисвам"
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"_dis1": "80 20",
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"sense": "to steep or dip in liquid",
"word": "kastaa"
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"(intransitive) To soak in, or be soaked; to percolate."
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"_dis1": "11 89",
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},
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"ref": "2024 January 2, David A. Graham, “An Old-Fashioned Scandal Fells a New Harvard President”, in The Atlantic",
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"ref": "1988 August 20, Rex Wockner, “Nobody Can Do It Like The USA”, in Gay Community News, volume 16, number 6, page 5",
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"ref": "1928, Newman Ivey White, American Negro Folk-Songs, Cambridge: Harvard University Press, page 227",
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