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sugar-sop|ˈʃʊgəsɒp|
Also 8 Sc. succar-sap, s.w. dial. zugar-zop.
[f. sugar n. + sop n.1]
†1. pl. A dish composed of steeped slices of bread, sweetened and sometimes spiced. Also fig. (Earlier † sugared sops: see sugared ppl. a. 1.)
1581G. Pettie tr. Guazzo's Civ. Conv. (1586) iii. 175 Two drougs..the one of which or both, the Courtier vsing, may long time maintaine himselfe in his Princes fauour: These are abstinence, or else suger soppes. 1592Greene Disput. Wks. (Grosart) X. 277 A quart of Sugar sops. 1658Rowland tr. Moufet's Theat. Ins. 903 You should supply them [bees] with Honey,..give grapes or figs bruised or pounded together, and sugar-sops. 1660H. More Myst. Godl. x. xiv. 540 Being poisoned or intoxicated with the unwholsome sugar-sops of Antinomianism and Libertinism. 1663Pepys Diary 17 April, It being Good Friday, our dinner was only sugar-sopps and fish. 1671Eachard Observ. Answ. Cont. Clergy 5 Sugar-Sops and Soft Jellies. 1729[Hippisley] Flora i. iv. (ed. 3) 17 Come along Child, and I'll get thee a little Zugar-zops to comfort thy Bowels. a1776Wren in Herd Coll. Anc. & Mod. Sc. Songs II. 210 In came Robin Red-breast,..Wi' succar-saps and wyne.
attrib.1742J. Yarrow Love at first Sight Prol., His Mouth b'ing stopt with Sugar-Sop Preferment.
2. The West-Indian Sweet-sop, Anona squamosa.
1847S. Lee Afr. Wand. v. 67 West Indian fruits, such as the delicious cherry, the sugar sop, sour sop, &c. |