soupn.
/suːp/, U.S. /sup/ 1.
a.
(a) A liquid food prepared by boiling, usually consisting of an extract of meat with other ingredients and seasoning.Frequently with defining words, as fish, giblet, gravy, hare, ox-tail, pea, turtle soup; clear, thick soup; etc.
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the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > soup or pottage > [noun]
brotha1000
pottage?c1225
pulmenta1325
hotchpot1381
sewc1386
wortsc1390
long wortsc1440
poddish1528
porridge?1533
hotchpotch1567
sowpa1568
potage1653
soup1653
bouillon1656
soupe1767
pot-au-feu1841
shackles1888
zuppa1961
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β. 1688 G. Miege Great French Dict. i. sig. Nnn/3 Soupe,..pottage, or soop.1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. 84/2 Soops, a kind of sweet pleasant Broth, made rich with Fruit and Spices.1691 Satyr against French 16 With Dishes which few Mankind knew beside; With Soops and Fricasies, Ragou's, Pottage.1735 J. Swift Panegyrick on D— in Wks. II. 291 Instead of wholsome Bread and Cheese, To dress their Soupes and Fricassyes.1772 J. Adams tr. A. de Ulloa Voy. S. Amer. (ed. 3) I. 78 To make it an ingredient in their soop.γ. 1677 G. Miege New Dict. French & Eng. ii. sig. Zz/3 Soup, or French pottage.1745 J. Swift Direct. to Servants 20 Let the Cook daub the Back of his new Livery; or when he is going up with a Dish of Soup, let her follow him softly with a Ladle-full.1758 S. Johnson Idler 19 Aug. 153 He..has only time to taste the soup.1807 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 17 220 The patient..indicated a desire for a little soup, of which he got over a few spoonfuls.1837 P. Keith Bot. Lexicon 181 The Truffle is much esteemed for the rich and delicate flavour which it imparts to soups and sauces.1859 Habits Good Society xi. 310 A light soup is better than a thick one, which clogs the appetite.figurative.1859 C. J. Lever Davenport Dunn xlvi Cranberry must have got his soup pretty hot, for he has come abroad.1876 ‘G. Eliot’ Let. 2 May (1956) VI. 244 Are you not sometimes made rather desponding by the reading of newspapers and periodicals?.. All information is given in a soup of comment.1977 Undercurrents June 9/1 The twelve page Corruption Supplement is a rich soup of sex, planning scandals, corruption trials, housing fiddles, [etc.].1653 T. Urquhart tr. F. Rabelais 1st Bk. Wks. xli. 186 Then made they ready store of Carbonadoes..and good fat soupes, or brewis with sippets.
1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew Soupe, Broth, Porridge.
1716 J. Gay Trivia iii. 66 And in the Soupe the slimy Snail is drown'd.
(b) (from) soup to nuts (U.S. colloquial), from beginning to end, completely; everything.
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1910 C. Mathewson Won in Ninth 143 He knew the game from ‘soup to nuts’.
1938 H. Asbury Sucker's Progress 16 For many years a common expression was ‘from soda to hock’, meaning the whole thing, from soup to nuts.
1946 E. O'Neill Iceman Cometh i. 79 I know all about that game from soup to nuts.
1964 F. O'Rourke Mule for Marquesa 42 ‘Everything here we asked for?’ ‘Soup to nuts... Nothing but the best.’
b. Biology. A solution rich in organic compounds which, it is believed, formerly made up the oceans or lakes of the earth and was the environment in which cellular life originated. Frequently as primordial soup.
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1929 J. B. S. Haldane in Rationalist Ann. 8 When ultra-violet light acts on a mixture of water, carbon dioxide, and ammonia, a vast variety of organic substances are made... Before the origin of life they must have accumulated till the primitive oceans reached the consistency of hot dilute soup.]
1956 Amer. Scientist 44 356 One plausible explanation is that spontaneous resolution of an early biosynthetic intermediate from the primordial nutritional ‘soup’ of the first organisms led to a monoconfigurational world.
1971 I. G. Gass et al. Understanding Earth ix. 126/1 This primitive soup provided a nutrient ‘broth’ for the first living organisms which finally arose within it.
1976 R. Dawkins Selfish Gene xi. 211 Floating chaotically free in the primeval soup.
1977 Vole No. 4. 13/2 We both [sc. humans and plants] have common ancestors..in that pool of organic nutrients known as the primordial soup.
2. colloquial or slang.attributive.1894 Daily Tel. 23 Nov. 5/4 The great ‘soup’ question is again agitating the minds of barristers at the Old Bailey.
a. Briefs for prosecutions given to members of the Bar at Quarter Sessions or other courts; the fees attaching to such briefs. Also in plural.
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society > law > legal profession > [noun] > instructions or briefs
instructions1529
breviate1594
brief1631
memorial1729
soup1856
watching brief1886
docker1889
dock brief1909
amicus curiae brief1919
1856 Law Times 27 122 But will soup so ladled out, to use the well-known phrase, support a barrister in the criminal courts?
1889 B. C. Robinson Bench & Bar 160 The brief consisted merely of the depositions, and the important honorarium attached to it was called ‘soup’.
1891 Pall Mall Gaz. 17 Sept. 5/2 A crowd of unemployed barristers.., waiting to secure these [briefs] which are known in Bar slang as ‘soups’.
b. in the soup, in a difficulty. Originally U.S.
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the world > action or operation > difficulty > [phrase] > in a difficult position > in straits
waterOE
straitly steadc1400
need-stead?c1450
at the worst hand1490
in suds1575
lock1598
at a bad hand1640
in a wood1659
in bad bread1743
up a stump1829
in a tight (also awkward, bad, etc.) spot1851
up shit creek1868
in the cart1889
in the soup1889
out on a limb1897
in a spot1929
up the creek1941
consommé1957
1889 Lisbon (Dakota Territory) Star 26 Apr. 4/2 After collecting a good deal of money, the scoundrels suddenly left town, leaving many persons in the soup.
1898 Pall Mall Mag. Nov. 420 Of course he knows we're in the soup—beastly ill luck.
1915 J. Buchan Thirty-nine Steps ii. 37 I was in the soup—that was pretty clear.
1917 D. Lloyd George Let. 31 July (1973) 184 Henderson has now put us into the soup & there is no knowing what will happen.
1925 P. G. Wodehouse Carry on, Jeeves ii. 53 There was a fellow, one would have said, clear up to the eyebrows in the soup. To all appearances he had got it right in the neck.
1939 H. G. Wells Holy Terror i. ii. 38 We're in the soup... We've got to do 1914 over again.
1968 Listener 23 May 660/3 You find you may want to move a group of pictures..to a different part of the building, and if the rooms over there are designed for quite a different kind of picture, you're rather in the soup.
1977 C. McCullough Thorn Birds xvii. 455 I do feel very sorry for her, and it makes me more determined than ever not to land in the same soup she did.
c. In miscellaneous uses: (see quots.).
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1891 Cent. Dict. Soup, a kind of picnic in which a great pot of soup is the principal feature.
1909 Webster's New Internat. Dict. Eng. Lang. Soup,..any material injected into a horse with a view to changing its speed or temperament. Racing Cant.
d. Fog; thick cloud. Cf. pea soup n. 1b.
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the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > cloud > mist > [noun] > thick mist or fog
fog1544
rouka1586
soup1901
the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > cloud > [noun] > cloudiness > thick cloud
soup1941
1901 Scotsman 6 Nov. 10/6 Then the ‘soup’ begins to get thick. Particles of smoke..remain suspended.
1941 F. H. Joseph Let. 7 Apr. in Britain at War (1942) 4 It wasn't long..before we were in the soup again.
1966 E. West Night is Time for Listening iii. 107 Over the North Sea the soup was dense and threatening; turbulence was marked.
1972 J. Gores Dead Skip (1973) xxiii. 161 Ballard watched the taillights recede into the soup.
e. Nitro-glycerine or gelignite.
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society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > explosive material > [noun] > other specific explosives
powdera1393
gunpowder1411
saltpetre1501
petre1586
halinitre1608
sal-prunella1664
petre-salt1708
xyloidin1838
gun-cotton1846
pyroxyle1847
pyroxylin1847
pyroglycerin1850
xylidine1850
nitroglycerine1852
gun-sawdust1853
picrate1854
trinitroglycerin1864
nitroleum1866
trinitrin1866
dynamite1867
giant-powder1872
dualin1874
fulgurite1874
rendrock1874
glyoxilin1875
lithofracteur1875
trinitro-cellulose1875
white gunpowder1875
gelatin1878
cotton-powder1879
vigorite1879
blasting gelatine1881
Hercules powder1881
saxifragine1881
tonite1881
dynamogen1882
forcite1883
haloxylin1883
jelly powdera1884
nitro-gelatinea1884
panclastite1883
potentite1883
sebastinea1884
kolloxylin1884
hellhoffite1885
rackarock1885
securite1886
kinetite1887
roburite1887
carbo-dynamite1888
fortis1889
gelatine dynamite1889
gelignite1889
seranine1889
straw-dynamite1889
carbonite1890
amberite1891
nitro powder1892
Schnebelite1893
westfalite1894
thorite1899
soup1902
ammonal1903
cheddite1908
trinitrotoluene1908
Samsonite1909
tolite1909
trinitrotoluol1910
trotyl1910
glyceryl trinitrate1912
T.N.T.1915
nitro1916
amatol1918
cyclonite1923
hexogen1923
lox1923
pentaerythritol tetranitrate1923
hexite1931
aurantia1940
jelly1941
RDX1941
1902 N.Y. Tribune 22 Oct. 8/4 Dynamite or nitro-glycerine is called ‘soup’.
1903 I. K. Friedman Autobiogr. of Beggar vii. 218 Louis learned how ter make de ‘soup’ from a gang of ‘yeagers’ dat used ter blow de doors off country banks.
1905 Strand Mag. 30 702/1 That's got enough soup in it to blow the whole court-house into the sky.
1920 ‘Sapper’ Bull-dog Drummond x. 265 I've got the soup here—gelignite.
1930 D. L. Sayers Strong Poison xiii. 169 Sam put the soup in at the 'inges and it blowed the 'ole front clean off.
1960 Observer 24 Jan. 5/1 The American petermen had started it long before the First World War by using soup, nitro-glycerine in liquid form, to pour through a little plasticine channel to blow the fashionable combination lock safes.
f. Photography and Cinematography. A processing chemical, esp. the developer.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > photography > chemicals > [noun] > developer
developer1855
paraphenylenediamine1873
rodinal1892
glycin1893
amidol1894
Adurol1898
soup1929
acutance developer1961
1929 N.Y. Times 20 Oct. ix. 8 Soup, the developing bath in which a sound negative is developed.
1934 Tit-bits 31 Mar. 12/3 The chemicals in which the film is developed are known as ‘soup’.
1969 L. Gish & A. Pinchot Lillian Gish ix. 102 Joe showed me how film was developed in the ‘soup’.
1978 L. Deighton SS-GB xxiii. 220 Any special instructions? Over or under development? Fine grain soup?
1979 SLR Camera Dec. 60/1 When you've mixed the soup remember to keep it in a well stoppered dark bottle which has been thoroughly cleaned.
g. Surfing. (See quot. 1962.)
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the world > the earth > water > flow or flowing > wave > [noun] > crest
ridgeOE
white nose1771
feather1838
crest1864
sea-cap1867
comb1886
soup1962
peak1963
society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > water sports except racing > surfing > [noun] > types or parts of wave
pounder1927
dumper1933
take-off1935
greeny1940
beach break1954
beacher1956
big kahuna1959
greenback1959
close out1962
curl1962
shore break1962
shoulder1962
soup1962
tube1962
wall1962
face1963
peak1963
pipeline1963
set1963
reef break1965
surfable wave1965
point break1966
green room1968
slide1968
barrel1975
left-hander1980
A-frame1992
1962 T. Masters Surfing made Easy 65 Soup, the foam or broken portion of a wave.
1966 Weekly News (N.Z.) 19 Jan. 6/2 When going through waves, point the board directly into the oncoming ‘soup’.
1968 Surfer Jan. 24/3 By standing feet parallel, you can float over breaking soup.
1977 Surfing World (Austral.) XVII. ii. 88 Plow through miles of soup.
Compounds
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a. General attributive, chiefly with names of utensils.
soup-bowl n.
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1858 T. W. Atkinson Oriental & West. Siberia iii. 41 Take my broth with my two friends from the same soup~bowl I could not.
soup-dish n.
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1755 Gentleman's Mag. Sept. 416/1 Vessels like soup-dishes, supported on three feet.
soup-kettle n.
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1852 W. M. Thackeray Henry Esmond II. xii. 215 The poor devils had even fled without their soup-kettles.
soup-ladle n.
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1716 London Gaz. No. 5437/4 18 Forks, a Soop-Ladle.
1850 R. W. Emerson Plato in Representative Men ii. 58 Drawing all his illustrations..from pitchers and soup-ladles.
soup-plate n. also figurative
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1726 D. Eaton Let. 16 Feb. (1971) 46 I..left directions in writing..what to pack up. I wrote down all manner of herbes, and the soop plates, &c.
1827 M. Faraday Chem. Manip. xii. 271 The litmus solution should be poured into a dish or soup-plate.
1900 Daily News 2 June 6/7 Some thirty years ago, when soup-plate bonnets and round-brimmed hats were in vogue.
1924 E. M. Forster Passage to India i. iii. 28 A sunk soup plate of a lawn.
1939 H. Hodge Cab, Sir? 217 The badge itself..is called a ‘soup-plate’.
1964 C. Willock Enormous Zoo v. 80 I shone my torch..and found a couple of large pink soup-plates glaring back at me—a hippo.
soup platter n.
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1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. I. vii. xi. 397 An enormous tricolor; large as a soup-platter, or sun-flower.
soup-pot n.
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1755 H. Glasse Art of Cookery (ed. 5) App. 331 Put them with the Fins and Head in a Soop-pot.
1866 Lady St.-Clair-Erskine Dainty Dishes (ed. 2) 5 Put into a soup-pot twelve lbs...of beef.
soup spoon n.
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1705 London Gaz. No. 4163/3 5 Soop Spoons.
soup-tureen n.
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1836 C. Dickens Sketches by Boz 1st Ser. I. 160 Delighted to screen himself behind a soup tureen.
1840 T. A. Trollope Summer in Brittany I. 298 An immense soup-tureen full of boiled milk.
b. In combination with other nouns, as soup-and-blanket, soup-and-bully, soup-and-patty; soup-and-fish n. slang men's evening dress, a dinner suit.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > set or suit of clothes > [noun] > evening dress or dress suit
evening suit1807
soup-and-fish1829
white tie1849
tails1857
monkey suit1920
black tie1951
penguin suit1961
1829 S. Smith Let. in Lady Holland Memoir (1855) II. 299 He had not his usual soup-and-pattie look.
1862 A. Locker Somebody's Luggage: His Dressing Case in All Year Round Extra Christmas No., 4 Dec. 26/2 She'd have no more chance again the ice, than a chaney cup again a soup-and-bully tin.
1900 Westm. Gaz. 26 Sept. 8/1 Making ground with his electors through the medium of the ‘soup and blanket brigade’.
1918 P. G. Wodehouse Piccadilly Jim i. 26 He took me to supper at some swell joint where they all had the soup-and-fish on but me.
1945 ‘A. Gilbert’ Black Stage xi. 149 What do you do about dinner here? Soup-and-fish or just a clean collar?
1970 H. McLeave Question of Negligence (1973) xviii. 141 Get him to take off his soup-and-fish and show us his scar.
C2. Special combinations.
soup bunch n. U.S. dialect (see quot. 1923).
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the world > food and drink > food > fruit and vegetables > vegetables > [noun] > vegetables for soup
soup bunch1923
1923 Dial. Notes 5 244 Soup bunch, a small bundle of vegetables for soup.
1938 Mississippi: Guide to Magnolia State (Federal Writers' Project) 286 The grocery stores and the fruit and vegetable stands sell ‘soup bunches’ which provide the base for home-cooked vegetable soup.
soup-fin n. (also soup-fin shark) a brown or grey shark with large teeth, Galeorhinus zygopterus, found off the Pacific coast of North America and once hunted for the value of its liver and fins.
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the world > animals > fish > subclass Elasmobranchii > order Pleurotremata > [noun] > family Carcharinidae > galeorhinus zygopterus (soup-fin)
soup-fin1905
1905 D. S. Jordan Guide Study of Fishes I. xxx. 541 The soup-fin shark..is found on the coast of California, where its fins are highly valued by the Chinese.
1923 Nature 6 Oct. 521/1 The soupfin shark (Galeus zygopterus).
1941 Sun (Baltimore) 25 Nov. 5/3 Tales of big profits in soupfin shark liver fishing sent E. Smith..hustling..to get his share.
1961 E. S. Herald Living Fishes of World 27/2 In 1942 and 1943 about five thousand soupfins were caught..west of Los Angeles.
1975 Daily Colonist (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 22 Aug. 16/5 In San Diego the markets call it shark or ‘soupfin’.
1975 Islander (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 30 Nov. 10/2 One shark hunted to near extinction because of its liver..is the soup fin shark.
soup gun n. U.S. Military slang a mobile army kitchen (? obsolete).
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the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > equipment for food preparation > cooking establishment or kitchen > [noun] > field or army kitchen
field kitchen1796
trench kitchen1860
slum gun1917
soup gun1918
popote1928
1918 C. J. Swan My Company 72 The cooks took the ‘soup gun’, as they immediately nicknamed the kitchen, all apart.
1928 A. C. Havlin Hist. Company A, 102nd Machine Gun Battalion 37 In spite of being accompanied by our ‘soup gun’, we frequently charged the trenches assisted only by coffee and a strip of bacon between two slices of bread.
soup-house n.
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the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > eating > eating place > [noun] > eating-house or restaurant > soup-kitchen
soup-shop1799
soup-kitchen1839
soup-house1861
1861 ‘A. H. Clington’ Frank O'Donnell 196 These various sums..were spent..in building Soup-houses, and erecting boilers.
soup-kitchen n. an establishment for preparing soup and supplying it to the poor or unemployed, either free or at a very low charge.
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society > society and the community > social attitudes > philanthropy > [noun] > charitableness or alms-giving > place for distribution of alms > soup
soup-shop1799
soup-kitchen1839
the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > eating > eating place > [noun] > eating-house or restaurant > soup-kitchen
soup-shop1799
soup-kitchen1839
soup-house1861
1839 C. Sinclair Holiday House xi. 255 We never had a drop of broth from the soup-kitchen all winter.
1851 H. Mayhew London Labour II. 259/1 The National Philanthropic Association, with its eleemosynary soup-kitchens, &c.
soup-kitchener n. one who accepts food from a soup-kitchen.
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the mind > possession > poverty > [noun] > poor person > poor person in receipt of relief
almsmanOE
beadsman?1529
almswoman1584
relievant1589
almsbasket mana1634
basket-scrambler1647
pensioner1690
pensionary1753
in-pensioner1761
pauper1775
tax-eater1818
colleger1886
soup-kitchener1907
reliefer1934
1907 G. B. Shaw Major Barbara ii. in John Bull's Other Island 220 You lie, you old soup-kitchener, you.
soup line n. U.S. a queue of people waiting to be fed at a soup-kitchen.
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the mind > possession > poverty > [noun] > poor person > poor person in receipt of relief > queue of
breadline1894
soup line1973
1973 C. Himes Black on Black 167 The panic which he had prophesied was on hand and already soup lines had come into existence.
1980 TWA Ambassador Oct. 69/3 We had soup lines and the Depression because men lost confidence in themselves.
soup man n. Criminals' slang an expert user of nitro-glycerine, etc.
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1961 B. Knox Die for Big Betsy ii. 44 ‘Denby's a “soup” man,’ he said. ‘Specializes in second-rate safe-blowings.’
soup-meat n. meat used for making soup.
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the world > food and drink > food > animals for food > [noun] > meat > other types of meat
gross meatc1460
fish1607
crimp-meat1656
small meata1662
second hand1694
slink1736
soup-meat1841
box meat1856
sacrifice meat1926
MRM1980
1841 W. M. Thackeray Great Hoggarty Diamond ix Tell her on no account to pay more than..4¾d. for soup-meat.
soup-shop n. (a) a shop where soup is distributed free; (b) a house where burglars dispose of silver and gold plate.
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the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > receiving or possessing stolen goods > [noun] > place where
stalling-ken1567
lock1699
fence-shop1789
soup-shop1799
fence1847
society > society and the community > social attitudes > philanthropy > [noun] > charitableness or alms-giving > place for distribution of alms > soup
soup-shop1799
soup-kitchen1839
the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > eating > eating place > [noun] > eating-house or restaurant > soup-kitchen
soup-shop1799
soup-kitchen1839
soup-house1861
1799 Manch. Mercury 8 Jan. 4/5 The plan of the soup shops at Birmingham might be advantageously followed at Manchester.
1817 Cobbett's Weekly Polit. Reg. 32 83 Reduced to such a state as to be fed at Soup Shops by Subscription!
1854 London Jrnl. 19 322 By the term soup-shops, the speaker meant those convenient houses where burglars and thieves dispose of any silver or gold plate which may fall into their hands. In such establishments the melting-pots are always kept ready.
soup-stock n. stock used in making soup.
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the world > food and drink > food > substances for food preparation > [noun] > stock or liquor > soup stock
soup-stock1861
1861 C. Dickens Great Expectations xxxiii, in All Year Round 13 Apr. 51/2 The air of this chamber, in its strong combination of stable with soup-stock.
soup-strainer n. (also soup-strainer moustache) colloquial a long moustache.
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the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > beautification of the person > beautification of the hair > styles of hair > [noun] > styles of moustache
rat-tail moustache1871
burnside1875
handlebar1888
Kaiser moustache1900
Kaiser Wilhelm moustache1901
toothbrush moustache1904
doormat1909
Kaiser Bill moustache1910
Old Bill moustache1915
cookie-duster1918
walrus moustache1918
Hitler1930
walrus whiskers1930
soup-strainer1932
pencil line1934
pencil moustache1961
Zapata1968
1932 P. G. Wodehouse Hot Water viii. 153 He did not propose to have a valet hanging around him festooned with fungus and snorting at him all the time from behind a great beastly soupstrainer.
1962 E. Lucia Klondike Kate iii. 86 A soulfully humming male quartet in soup-strainers and sideburns.
1968 Listener 1 Aug. 140/1 At the telegraph office we aroused with great difficulty an elderly man with a large grey soup-strainer moustache.
soup-ticket n. a ticket given to poor people enabling them to receive soup from a soup-kitchen.
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the world > food and drink > food > supply of food or provisions > rations > [noun] > ticket or card entitling to rations or provisions
soup-ticket1839
ration book1845
meal ticket1864
ration card1870
pie card1895
society > society and the community > social attitudes > philanthropy > [noun] > charitableness or alms-giving > place for distribution of alms > soup > ticket for
soup-ticket1839
1839 E. Hall Diary 29 Jan. in O. A. Sherrard Two Victorian Girls (1966) i. 11 Our poor house was besieged by a host of people come for soup tickets.
1841 F. Marryat Joseph Rushbrook I. xii. 145 They look like soup tickets.
1870 J. R. Lowell Among my Bks. (1873) 1st Ser. 300 This soup-ticket to a ladleful of fame.
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Irish English colloquial. to take (the) soup: to convert from Catholicism to Protestantism; (hence in extended use) to switch one's allegiances, esp. in a manner perceived as a betrayal of a cause or principle.The phrase derives from the Great Famine (Great Famine n. at great adj., n., adv., and int. Compounds 1e), when it was alleged that food relief provided by Protestant bible societies was made conditional on the recipient converting to the faith or receiving Protestant teaching (cf. quot. 1853). Cf. souper n.1
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the mind > will > decision > irresolution or vacillation > reversal of or forsaking one's will or purpose > reverse or abandon one's purpose [verb (intransitive)] > desert one's party or principles
declinec1374
starta1450
revert?a1525
to fall away1535
to turn (one's) tippet1546
revolt1549
shrink1553
to turn one's coat1565
to come over1576
apostate1596
to change (one's) sides1596
defect1596
renegade1611
to change foot1618
to run over1643
to face about1645
apostatize1648
tergiverse1675
tergiversate1678
desert1689
apostasize1696
renegado1731
rat1810
to cross the floor1822
turncoat1892
to take (the) soup1907
turn1977
society > faith > sect > Christianity > Protestantism > conversion to Protestantism > convert to Protestantism [verb (intransitive)]
Protestantize1829
to take (the) soup1907
1853 M. A. Sadlier New Lights 17 ‘She gets soup from the Bible-readers—she's not to be trusted, Father O'Driscoll.’ ‘Well!’ said the priest calmly... ‘Is it true, Katty, that you take “the soup”?’]
1907 Irish Monthly May 260 None of our people had ‘taken soup’.
1978 J. Carroll Mortal Friends v. viii. 591 He's a Protestant, right? With a name like that? Somebody in his family took the soup, sure as hell.
2006 Irish Independent (Nexis) 20 Dec. [He] has taken the soup and joined the serried ranks of those right across the media who want to convert this democratic republic into a one party state.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
soupv.
/suːp/, U.S. /sup/ 1. transitive. To provide with soup. See also souper n.1 and souping adj. at Derivatives.
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the world > food and drink > food > providing or receiving food > feed or nourish [verb (transitive)] > feed with specific food
diet1362
put1620
gruel1804
pap-feed1809
chicken-broth1856
soup1857
1857 Reade Box Tunnel in Scrap-bk. (1906) Mar. 133 He handed them out—he souped them—he tough-chickened them.
2. [compare soup n. 2b] To place in difficulties, to bring to grief. Usually in past participle colloquial.
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the world > action or operation > difficulty > of difficulty: beset (a person) [verb (transitive)] > put (a person) in difficulty
mire?c1400
to make (a place, situation, etc.) too hot for1582
difficult1641
to wind (oneself) a (bonny) pirn1660
swamp1818
to be rough on1860
taigle1865
soup1895
hot1920
to hot up1927
1895 W. C. Gore in Inlander Dec. 114 Soup. v., to cause to fail; to bring to grief.
1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. viii. [Lestrygonians] 155 Luck I had the presenee [sic] of mind to dive into Manning's or I was souped.
1964 Daily Tel. 16 Jan. 26/4 Admitting that he earned £3,000 a year, Lord Taylor said that if he accepted a junior Ministry he would be ‘souped’.
3. [compare quot. 1909 at soup n. 2c; perhaps influenced by super- prefix] Originally and chiefly with up. To modify (an engine, aircraft, motor vehicle, etc.) to increase its power and efficiency. Also transferred and figurative. colloquial (originally U.S.).
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society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > machines which impart power > engine > operate engine [verb (transitive)] > increase power or efficiency
to hot up1920
soup1931
stretch1960
1931 [see souped adj. at Derivatives].
1933 C. K. Stewart Speech Amer. Airman 92 Soup Up, to supercharge.
1939 Sun (Baltimore) 3 Aug. 1/6 We have done this without ‘souping up’ our engines, without putting alcohol in our gasoline,..or flying with motors which last only five hours.
1949 A. Hynd We are Public Enemies i. 22 Dillinger..bought two new Fords. He souped up the motors... Now he was ready to act as his own getaway driver.
1949 A. Hynd We are Public Enemies i. 29 John Dillinger and five other public enemies arrived in three souped-up Ford cars.
1959 Spectator 17 Apr. 557/1 The collection is souped up with frantic editorial comments.
1962 John o' London's 8 Feb. 140/2 I don't think Mr. Hauser was at his most perceptive in souping-up what was already very funny.
1965 L. H. Whitten Progeny of Adder (1966) 31 The quintet, souped up on sets—tranquilizers and pep pills taken together.
1972 F. Warner Lying Figures iii. 35 The coffee soups her up so that she has to take a tranquillizer.
1976 K. Benton Single Monstrous Act v. 152 He had lovingly souped up the Escort's engine, and now gave it full throttle.
1979 J. Gardner Nostradamus Traitor xxxix. 188 A German car: Opel Kadett, souped, and probably reinforced.
Derivatives
ˈsouping adj.
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1891 Daily News 20 Jan. 6/4 The hypocritical cry raised by a gang of souping parsons.
1902 Edinb. Rev. July 135 Luke found himself accused of countenancing the ‘souping’ proselytiser.
ˈsouped adj. (also 'souped-up)
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society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > machines which impart power > engine > [adjective] > modified to increase power or efficiency
hotted-up1928
souped1931
hopped-up1945
society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > powered vehicle > motor car > [adjective] > modified to increase power
souped1931
hopped-up1945
1931 Automotive Industries 30 May 826/1 Ray Keech's run at Daytona Beach in the White Triplex powered with three ‘souped-up’ Liberty engines.
1941 Time 18 Aug. 76/2 Its hero, Slave Trader Matthew Flood, is built like a souped-up Abraham Lincoln.
19491 [see sense 3]. 1956 D. Walker Harry Black xiii. 196 You're like a souped-up version of my mother.
1957 New Yorker 2 Nov. 95/2 Their superb High Fidelity components reproduce all the sounds of the original..with no ‘souped-up’ tones, squeaks or other distortions.
1960 News Chron. 16 June 4/7 A specially cast manifold for the souped version of the Mini-Austin.
1965 Listener 18 Nov. 795/1 As if lacking confidence in his own directorial inventiveness, Visconti takes recourse during one sequence to a modulated version of Fellini's style, and at another juncture provides his audience with souped-up..Antonioni.
1975 B. Garfield Death Sentence (1976) ii. 11 A souped-up car with enormous rear tires growled past him.
1980 SLR Camera July 7/1 News from the Colonies tells us that Ilford have introduced a ‘souped-up’ 1D-11 for processing black and white film in the USA.
ˈsouping n. (also 'souping-up)
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society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > machines which impart power > engine > [noun] > modifying to increase power or efficiency
brewing-up1953
souping1960
tune1971
1960 News Chron. 16 June 4/6 Without any souping at all, the Mini-Minor..produces a very useful performance.
1961 Times 7 Nov. 19/1 In Britain a thriving business has grown up in tuning and modifying the engines of existing models to give more performance. So widespread has this practice (referred to by enthusiasts as ‘brewing up’, ‘souping up’, or merely ‘hotting up’) become, particularly with ‘Minis’ that the B.M.C. introduced an ‘officially hotted up’ version last September.
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