sugar-sopn.
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the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > bread > bread dish > [noun] > sops
brewisc1440
pain perdua1450
bread and milk1549
sugar-sops1581
Poor Knights1659
breadberry1715
milk toast1840
sop1845
kettle-broth1880
slinger1882
1581 G. Pettie tr. S. Guazzo Ciuile Conuersat. (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.
1592 R. Greene Disput. Conny-catcher sig. F4v A quart of Sugar sops.
1658 J. Rowland tr. T. Moffett Theater of Insects in Topsell's Hist. Four-footed Beasts (rev. ed.) 903 You should supply them [bees] with Honey,..give grapes or figs bruised or pounded together, and sugar-sops.
1660 H. More Explan. Grand Myst. Godliness x. xiv. 540 Being poisoned or intoxicated with the unwholsome sugar-sops of Antinomianism and Libertinism.
1663 S. Pepys Diary 17 Apr. (1971) IV. 104 Our dinner, it being Goodfriday, was only sugar sopps and fish.
1671 J. Eachard Some Observ. Answer to Grounds Contempt of Clergy 5 Sugar-Sops and Soft Jellies.
1729 J. Hippisley Flora i. iv. 20 Come along Child, and I'll get thee a little Zugar-zops to comfort thy Bowels.
a1776 Wren in D. Herd Anc. & Mod. Sc. Songs (1776) II. 210 In came Robin Red-breast,..Wi' succar-saps and wyne.
2. The West-Indian Sweet-sop, Anona squamosa.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular fruit-tree or -plant > [noun] > tropical or exotic fruit-tree or -plant > of tropical America > sweet-sop tree
sweet-sop1696
water apple1696
sugar-apple1739
purple apple1754
custard tree1760
sweet-apple1760
sugar-sop1847
1847 S. Lee Afr. Wanderers v. 67 West Indian fruits, such as the delicious cherry, the sugar sop, sour sop, &c.
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