soup
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Pronunciation[edit]
- (UK) IPA(key): /suːp/
- (US) enPR: so͞op, IPA(key): /sup/
Audio (RP) (file) Audio (GA) (file) - Rhymes: -uːp
Etymology 1[edit]
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 zuppa. See also sop and supper.
Noun[edit]
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.
- c. 1430 (reprinted 1888), Thomas Austin, ed., Two Fifteenth-century Cookery-books. Harleian ms. 279 (ab. 1430), & Harl. ms. 4016 (ab. 1450), with Extracts from Ashmole ms. 1429, Laud ms. 553, & Douce ms. 55 [Early English Text Society, Original Series; 91], London: N. Trübner & Co. for the Early English Text Society, volume I, OCLC 374760, page 11:
- Soupes dorye. — Take gode almaunde mylke […] caste þher-to Safroun an Salt […]
- (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) Nitroglycerine or gelignite, especially when used for safe-cracking.
- (cant) Dope (illicit drug, used for making horses run faster or to change their personality).
- (photography) Processing chemicals into which film is dipped, such as developer.
- (biology) Liquid or gelatinous substrate, especially the mixture of organic compounds that is believe to have played a role in the origin of life on Earth.
- (UK, informal, often with "the") An 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.”
- (surfing) The foamy portion of a wave.
Derived terms[edit]
- alphabet soup
- beef soup
- beer soup
- bird's nest soup
- bread soup
- canned soup
- chicken soup
- condensed soup
- cream soup
- dessert soup
- duck soup
- egg droup soup
- fish soup
- French onion soup
- fruit soup
- in the soup
- leek soup
- lentil soup
- miso soup
- mock turtle soup
- noodle soup
- oxtail soup
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Verb[edit]
soup (third-person singular simple present soups, present participle souping, simple past and past participle souped)
- (uncommon) To feed: to provide with soup or a meal.
- 1845, Charles Rowcroft, Tales of the Colonies: Or, The Adventures of an Emigrant, page 432:
- 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.
- 1896, Charles Reade, Readiana; Comments on Current Events, page 2:
- Now laughing together thaws our human ice; long before Swindon it was a talking match, —at Swindon who so devoted as Captain Dolignan,—he handed them out—he souped them,—he tough-chickened them,—he brandied and cochinealed one, and he brandied and burnt-sugared the other;
- 1904 October, East is East and West is West, in The Vassar Miscellany, volume 34, number 1, page 236:
- "I was so mad, I let him wait half an hour to-night before I souped him."
- 2011, Diza Sauers, Historama, page 152:
- She cooked huge stock pots and souped her dogs once a day.
- 2008, C Mark Chapoton, A Tale of Two Iditarods, page 34:
- I souped the dogs, and went in for a bite. I ended up going back out and making my pups a full meal, then went back in and pigged out myself.
- (photography) To develop (film) in a (chemical) developing solution.
- 1970 December, in The Rotarian, volume 117, number 6, page 31:
- 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 […]
- 1991, Ruth Jean Dale, Society Page:
- "Then perhaps it won't surprise you to learn Annie's taking over the Sunday social column," Roz said. "You photo-guys'll be souping her film."
- 1998, Edward Gorman, Cold Blue Midnight:
- And her camera position had been completely out of his sight. Satisfied that she'd gotten everything she'd needed - much more, in fact - she went back inside and got to work. Jill had souped her first photographs while she'd been on […]
- 2005, Jock Lauterer, Community Journalism: A Personal Approach, page 242:
- By 6 pm Beau and I are back at the paper, souping the film, when Woody rushes into the room.
- 1970 December, in The Rotarian, volume 117, number 6, page 31:
- (obsolete) To proselytize by feeding the impoverished as long as they listen to one's preaching.
- 1855, William Le Poer Trench, A Digest of the Evidence, Taken Before the Select Committee of the House of Lords, page 280:
- Was the priest who denounced those books of the National Board as "souping books" the patron of a national school?
- 1864, Irish Diamonds, Or, A Chronicle of Peterstown:
- "Souping" in Peterstown came to an end, and Una had enough to do with her full school and ignorant scholars to deaden the sting of her grief for the time.
- 1871, Thomas Curson Hansard, Hansard's Parliamentary Debates, page 1751:
- It was suggested that the briefs should be distributed generally; but they could not be spread as they were at Manchester, Liverpool, and Leeds, where briefs where "souped" out.
- 1877, Mary Hartley, The Hon. Miss Ferrard, page 101:
- Yes, and it was all done in pure charity, no souping swaddling mixture whatever. The Fitz-Ffoulkes had none of that about them .
- 1887 January, “November in Kerry”, in Time: A Monthly Magazine, volume 5, page 36:
- Before long we passed a Scripture-reader (such the driver said he was), reading a book as a priest does his breviary. I though him not out of place; for anything madder than the whole system of "souping" it is hard to imagine. In Kerry you see signs of it here and there, as you do in Connemara.
- 1891, Thomas Curson Hansard, Hansard's Parliamentary Debates, page 838:
- I ask, Sir, what right has the hon. Member to call any Protestant minister a souping parson?.
Etymology 2[edit]
From Middle English soupen, from Old English sūpan (“to sup, sip”), from Proto-Germanic *sūpaną. More at sup.
Verb[edit]
soup (third-person singular simple present soups, present participle souping, simple past and past participle souped)
- Alternative form of sup
- 1848, John Parker Lawson, History of the Abbey and Palace of Holyroodhouse, page 107:
- I said that I had already souped.
Etymology 3[edit]
From Middle English soupe, from Old English sūpe (“sup; draught”).
Noun[edit]
soup (plural soups)
- Alternative form of sup
Etymology 4[edit]
From Middle English swopen, from Old English swāpan (“to sweep”), from Proto-Germanic *swaipaną (“to sweep”). More at sweep.
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Verb[edit]
soup (third-person singular simple present soups, present participle souping, simple past and past participle souped)
- (obsolete) To sweep.
- 1597, Joseph Hall, Virgidemiarum:
- He vaunts his voice upon an hired stage, With high-set steps and princely carriage, Now souping in side robes of royalty.
- 1598, John Marston, The Scourge of Villanie:
- Methinks I hear swart Martius cry, Souping along in war's fein'd maskerie, By Lais starrie front he'll forthwith die.
- 1808, Joseph Hall, Josiah Pratt, “Quo Vadis? A Censure of Travel”, in Miscellaneous works, page 238:
- We can tell of those cheap-dieted men, that live about the head of Ganges, without meat, without mouths, feeding only upon air at their nostrils; or of those headless eastern people, that have their eyes in their breast; a mis-conceit arising from their fashion of attire, which I have sometimes seen; or those Coromandae, of whom Pliny speaks, that cover their whole body with their ears; or of the persecutors of St. Thomas of Canterbury, whose posterity, if we believe the confident writings of Degrassalius, are born with long and hairy tails, souping after them; which, I imagine, gave occasion to that proverbial jest, wherewith our mirth uses to upgraid the Kentish; or of Amazons; or Pigmies; or Satyrs;
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