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soup¹
- /suːp/ UK
- /sup/ US
Rhymes with -uːp
Where it comes from
The noun is from Middle English soupe, sowpe, from Old French soupe, souppe, sope, from Late Latin suppa (“sopped bread”), from Proto-Germanic *supô (compare Middle Dutch sope (“broth”)). Doublet of sop and zuppa. See also sup and supper.
The verb is from the noun.
noun soups · soop
- Any of various dishes commonly made by combining liquids, such as water or stock, with other ingredients, such as meat and vegetables, that contribute the food value, flavor, and texture. Pho is a traditional Vietnamese soup.
- A serving of such a dish, typically in a bowl.
- The liquid part of such a dish; the broth.
- Any mixture or substance suggestive of soup consistency. The cleanup job would turn out to be possibly second only to body-recovery duty in terms of being a job that nobody wanted to get assigned to. Imagine, for a moment, a thick soup of oil, paper, ink, clothing, raw meat and other fresh provisions, and worse, that had all been left to collect together
- Thick fog or cloud (also pea soup).
- Nitroglycerine or gelignite, especially when used for safe-cracking.
- Dope or cocaine. […]who lounged hungry and lonesome through Houston seeking jazz or sex or soup[…]
- Processing chemicals into which film is dipped, such as developer.
- A liquid or gelatinous substrate, especially the mixture of organic compounds that is believed to have played a role in the origin of life on Earth. primordial soup
- An unfortunate situation; trouble, problems (a fix, a mess); chaos. B. Wickham had also the disposition and general outlook on life of a ticking bomb. In her society you always had the uneasy feeling that something was likely to go off at any moment with a pop. You never knew what she was going to do next or into what murky depths of soup she would carelessly plunge
- The foamy portion of a wave.
- Any random starting pattern, typically studied to see what sorts of resultant more stable patterns emerge when evolved over subsequent generations.
verb soups · souping · souped · soop
- To feed: to provide with soup or a meal. I'm blessed if I've heard about any thing but kangaroo-tail soup all the while I was at Launceston. They souped me there night and day.
- To develop (film) in a (chemical) developing solution. That girl Vivienne, by the way, once worked as a secretary in the workshop of The Rotarian, began "souping" her own snapshots at home, went from there to top rank as a New York color photographer specializing in small children […]
- To proselytize by feeding the impoverished as long as they listen to one's preaching. Was the priest who denounced those books of the National Board as "souping books" the patron of a national school?
soup²
- /suːp/ UK
- /sup/ US
Rhymes with -uːp
Where it comes from
From Middle English soupen, from Old English sūpan (“to sup, sip”), from Proto-Germanic *sūpaną. More at sup.
verb soups · souping · souped · soop
- Alternative form of sup (“to sip; to take a small amount of food or drink into the mouth, especially with a spoon”).
soup³
- /suːp/ UK
- /sup/ US
Rhymes with -uːp
Where it comes from
From Middle English soupe, from Old English sūpe (“sup; draught”).
noun soups · soop
- Alternative form of sup (“a sip; a small amount of food or drink”).
soup⁴
- /suːp/ UK
- /sup/ US
Rhymes with -uːp
Where it comes from
From Middle English swopen, from Old English swāpan (“to sweep”), from Proto-Germanic *swaipaną (“to sweep”). More at sweep.
verb soups · souping · souped · soop
- To sweep. He vaunts his voice upon an hired stage, With high-set steps and princely carriage, Now souping in side robes of royalty.
soup⁵
- /suːp/ UK
- /sup/ US
Rhymes with -uːp
Where it comes from
From Middle English soupen, suppen, from Anglo-Norman super, from supe, soupe (“soup”) + -er (verb-forming suffix).
verb soups · souping · souped · soop
- Rare form of sup (“to take supper”). When I cam that tym to the court, I fand my Lord Due of Orkney sitting at his supper. He said I had bene a gret stranger, desyring me to sit down and soup with him. The Erie of Huntly, the justice-clark, and dyvers uthers, wer sitten at the table with him. I said that I had already souped.
Thesaurus
Closest in meaning: bread, cream, potage, chowder, gravy, broth, jam, borscht, mulligatawny, milk, stew, bowl, tureen, breakfast, lunch, meal
Translations
Every language
noun dish
| Español | sopa, caldo |
|---|---|
| 한국어 | 국 guk, 탕 tang, 수프 supeu |
| 日本語 | 汁 shiru, スープ sūpu, 露 tsuyu |
| 中文 | 湯 /汤 tāng |
| हिन्दी | सूप sūp, शोरबा śorbā |
| Kiswahili | supu |
| Português | sopa |
| Français | potage, soupe, velouté |
| Deutsch | Suppe |
| Italiano | minestra, brodo, zuppa |
| Ελληνικά | σούπα soúpa |
| Română | supă, ciorbă |
| Русский | суп sup, похлёбка poxljóbka, уха́ uxá, ю́шка júška |
| Tiếng Việt | canh, nước dùng, nước lèo, súp, soup, xúp |
| العربية | شُورَبَة šūraba, شُرْبَة šurba, حَسَاء ḥasāʔ |
| עברית | מָרָק marák |
noun unfortunate situation
| Français | pétrin, panade |
|---|---|
| Deutsch | Suppe |
| Русский | переде́лка peredélka |
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