sop

sop  (sp)

tr.v. sopped, sop·ping, sops

1. To dip, soak, or drench in a liquid; saturate.

2. To take up by absorption: sop up water with a paper towel.

n.

1. A piece of food soaked or dipped in a liquid.

2.

a. Something yielded to placate or soothe.

b. A bribe.

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[From Middle English soppe, bread dipped in liquid, from Old English sopp-, in soppcuppe, cup for dipping bread in; see seu-² in Indo-European roots.]

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sop

Noun

1. a small bribe or concession given or made to someone to keep them from causing trouble: a sop to her conscience

2. Informal a stupid or weak person

3. sops food soaked in a liquid before being eaten

Verb

[sopping, sopped]

sop up to soak up or absorb (liquid) [Old English sopp]

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	sop - piece of solid food for dipping in a liquid sops bite, morsel, bit - a small amount of solid food; a mouthful; "all they had left was a bit of bread"
	2.	sop - a concession given to mollify or placate; "the offer was a sop to my feelings" concession - a point conceded or yielded; "they won all the concessions they asked for"
	3.	SOP - a prescribed procedure to be followed routinely; "rote memorization has been the educator's standard operating procedure for centuries" standard operating procedure, standard procedure, standing operating procedure operating procedure - a procedure for operating something or for dealing with a given situation lockstep - a standard procedure that is followed mindlessly; "the union's support had been in lockstep for years"
Verb	1.	sop - give a conciliatory gift or bribe to bribe, grease one's palms, buy, corrupt - make illegal payments to in exchange for favors or influence; "This judge can be bought"
	2.	sop - be or become thoroughly soaked or saturated with a liquid soak through ooze through - run slowly and gradually; "Blood oozed through the bandage"
	3.	sop - dip into liquid; "sop bread into the sauce" dip, dunk, souse, douse, plunge - immerse briefly into a liquid so as to wet, coat, or saturate; "dip the garment into the cleaning solution"; "dip the brush into the paint"
	4.	sop - cover with liquid; pour liquid onto; "souse water on his hot face" souse, soak, dowse, drench, douse wet - cause to become wet; "Wet your face" brine - soak in brine bedraggle, draggle - make wet and dirty, as from rain bate - soak in a special solution to soften and remove chemicals used in previous treatments; "bate hides and skins" ret - place (flax, hemp, or jute) in liquid so as to promote loosening of the fibers from the woody tissue sluice, flush - irrigate with water from a sluice; "sluice the earth"

Translations

sop [sɔp] n that's only a sop → c'est pour nous (or les etc) amadouer

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SOP n abbr (= standard operating procedure) → normale Vorgehensweise f

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sop [sɔp] n that's only a sop → das soll nur zur Beschwichtigung dienen

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sop [sɔp] n that's only a sop → è soltanto un contentino