Talk:soup

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photography sense[edit]

This helps clear up the meaning of the photography sense:

  • 1998, Copyright Law Symposium (of the American Society of Composers), page 392:
    [] the mechanized opening and closing of the shutter, the light's effect on silver halide film, and the process of "souping" the film to bring up negatives from which positive copies can be printed — []

- -sche (discuss) 19:20, 24 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

other senses[edit]

  • 2010, Fedler, Joanne, When hungry, eat, page 303:
    Zed because he knew I was going to be horrible company as I souped in my sadness.
There are also some very strange senses to be found on nondurable webpages... - -sche (discuss) 19:27, 24 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

RFV discussion: October 2011–March 2012[edit]

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Rfv-sense x 4:

  1. To provide soup or a meal.
  2. To dine on soup, to eat soup.
  3. To soak up liquid or sauce from a dish with a piece of bread and eat it.
  4. (informal) To improve something by making it more powerful, elaborate or impressive (Cf. (deprecated template usage) soup up)

The first three are plausible, but it would definitely be nice to know if they are current or dated or literary. The last informal sense may not exist apart from (deprecated template usage) soup up. If it is deemed worthwhile, then we should make sure that this page has an etymology reflecting the "influence" of (deprecated template usage) supercharge on this sense. DCDuring TALK 00:53, 25 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

The third one may be getting confused with sop. 81.142.107.230 15:56, 28 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]
I've added a photography sense with citations, and cited the "to provide with soup" sense, and tagged it as an uncommon variant of "to [[feed]]". The other senses I've deleted as RFV-failed. - -sche (discuss) 19:32, 24 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]


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Does the obsolete meaning of "breathe out" listed at the bottom mean this word is a cognate with Ger. seufzen? 174.124.49.179 21:28, 12 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

According to this, this meaning is from Old English sweopan, which means it is definitely not related to seufzen. --WikiTiki89 20:37, 13 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

RFV discussion: July–August 2021[edit]

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Rfv-sense To breathe out; to draw out.. Couldn't find anything from Camden, even with f instead of s to represent ſ. Roger the Rodger (talk) 20:20, 17 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

RFV-failed (I added the Camden quote to the citations page, but it is still only one quote). Kiwima (talk) 22:12, 17 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]