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▪ I. sopping, vbl. n.|ˈsɒpɪŋ|
[f. sop v.]
The action of the vb. in various senses; a thorough soaking or wetting.
1532More Confut. Tindale Wks. 687/2 By bibbing, & sipping, & sopping, & quaffing. 1633W. Ames Fresh Suite ii. 37 Sopping of bread in wine..was no signe instituted as an instrument of grace. 1675H. Woolley Gentlew. Compan. 71 Be not over-forward in dipping or sopping in the dish. 1824Miss Mitford Village Ser. i. (1863) 159 The whole story of the sopping, the drying, the clothes-spoiling. 1888H. R. Reynolds in Life xvii. (1898) 414 The delightful rambles and soppings and jolly evening symposia.
▪ II. ˈsopping, ppl. a.
[f. as prec.]
Soaking; drenched; saturated with water or rain.
1877W. S. Gilbert Foggerty's Fairy (1892) 182 Two sopping females have quartered themselves on two dry bachelors. 1886J. Ashby-Sterry Lazy Minstrel (1892) 78 The sopping sky is leaden grey.
b. quasi-adv., as sopping sad, sopping wet.
Freq. in recent use: cf. WFlem. zoppende nat.
1866R. R. Bealey Poems, Mally 30 An' then turn'd soppin sad. 1897A. V. Carr Cottage Folk 144 Why's your feet soppin' wet? |