soup

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(1645) Middle French soupe, from Old French souppe, sope, from Late Latin suppa 'sopped bread', from Proto-Germanic *saupan, *saupaz (compare Middle Dutch soop 'broth', Old High German souf 'id.', Old Norse saup), deverbative of *sūpanan (“to sop”); see sop.

[edit] Noun

soup (countable and uncountable; plural soups)

  1. Any of various dishes commonly made by combining liquids, such as water or stock with other ingredients, such as meat and vegetables, that contribute flavor and texture.
    Pho is a traditional Vietnamese soup.
    1. (countable) A serving of such a dish, typically in a bowl.
    2. (uncountable) The liquid part of such a dish; the broth.
  2. (figuratively) Any mixture or substance suggestive of soup consistency.
    1. (slang) thick fog or cloud (also pea soup).
    2. (US, slang) nitroglycerin or gelignite, especially when used for safe-cracking.
    3. (cant) dope (for making horses run faster or change their personality).
    4. (photography) processing chemicals into which film is dipped, e.g., developer.
    5. (biology) Liquid or gelatinous substrate, esp. the mixture of organic compounds that is believe to have played a role in the origin of life on Earth. (Cf. primordial soup)
  3. (UK, informal, often "the") Unfortunate situation, trouble, problems (a fix, a mess), chaos.
    • 1960, P. G. Wodehouse, Jeeves in the Offing, chapter I and X:
      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 you. [...] “It may be fun for her,” I said with one of my bitter laughs, “but it isn't so diverting for the unfortunate toads beneath the harrow whom she plunges so ruthlessly in the soup.”
  4. (surfing) The foam portion of a wave.

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dish
unfortunate situation
  • Dutch: (in expression "de soep in lopen") soep (nl)

[edit] Verb

soup (third-person singular simple present soups, present participle souping, simple past and past participle souped)

  1. (Can we verify(+) this sense?) To provide soup or a meal.
  2. (Can we verify(+) this sense?) To dine on soup, to eat soup.
  3. (Can we verify(+) this sense?) To soak up liquid or sauce from a dish with a piece of bread and eat it.
  4. To be in trouble or in difficulty (often passive--cf. in the soup).
    • 1922, James Joyce, Ulyssis, II:
      Luck I had the presenee [sic] of mind to dive into Manning's or I was souped.
  5. (Can we verify(+) this sense?) (informal) To improve something by making it more powerful, elaborate or impressive (Cf. soup up)

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