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.
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soup (countable and uncountable; plural soups)
- 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.
- (countable) A serving of such a dish, typically in a bowl.
- (uncountable) The liquid part of such a dish; the broth.
- (figuratively) Any mixture or substance suggestive of soup consistency.
- (slang) thick fog or cloud (also pea soup).
- (US, slang) nitroglycerin or gelignite, especially when used for safe-cracking.
- (cant) dope (for making horses run faster or change their personality).
- (photography) processing chemicals into which film is dipped, e.g., developer.
- (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)
- (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.”
- 1960, P. G. Wodehouse, Jeeves in the Offing, chapter I and X:
- (surfing) The foam portion of a wave.
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dish
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soup (third-person singular simple present soups, present participle souping, simple past and past participle souped)
- (Can we verify(+) this sense?) To provide soup or a meal.
- (Can we verify(+) this sense?) To dine on soup, to eat soup.
- (Can we verify(+) this sense?) To soak up liquid or sauce from a dish with a piece of bread and eat it.
- 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.
- 1922, James Joyce, Ulyssis, II:
- (Can we verify(+) this sense?) (informal) To improve something by making it more powerful, elaborate or impressive (Cf. soup up)
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