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Definitions for Sopping

[1] soaked; drenched: Her clothes were sopping from the rain.
[2] a piece of solid food, as bread, for dipping in liquid food.
[3] anything thoroughly soaked.
[4] something given to pacify or quiet, or as a bribe: The political boss gave him some cash as a sop.
[5] a weak-willed or spineless person; milksop.
[6] to dip or soak in liquid food: to sop bread in gravy.
[7] to drench.
[8] to take up (liquid) by absorption (usually followed by up ): He used bread to sop up the gravy.
[9] to be or become soaking wet.
[10] (of a liquid) to soak (usually followed by in ).
[11] completely soaked; wet through Also: sopping wet
[12] (often plural) food soaked in a liquid before being eaten
[13] a concession, bribe, etc, given to placate or mollify a sop to one's feelings
[14] informal a stupid or weak person
[15] (tr) to dip or soak (food) in liquid
[16] (when intr, often foll by in ) to soak or be soaked
[17] standard operating procedure

Words related to Sopping

saturated, soaked, soused, drenched, soaking, dripping, dank, sodden, soggy, soppy

Words nearby Sopping

sopor, soporiferous, soporific, soporose, soporous, sopping, soppy, sopranino, soprano, soprano clef, sopwith

Origin of Sopping

before 1000; (noun) Middle English; Old English sopp; cognate with Old Norse soppa; (v.) Old English soppian, derivative of the noun (not recorded in ME). See sup2

Word origin for Sopping

Old English sopp; related to Old Norse soppa soup , Old High German sopfa milk with bread; see sup ²

Synonyms for Sopping

drenched, dripping, drowned, saturated, soaked, soaking, soused, dank, sodden, soggy, soppy, water-logged, wringing-wet