What is another word for sops?

Pronunciation: [sˈɒps] (IPA)

Sops are a term often used in cooking to refer to a piece of bread or other food that is soaked in a liquid or sauce. There are many synonyms for sops including dip, soak, drench, saturate, steep, immerse, and infuse. Other synonyms that are commonly used include submerge, marinate, drown, sop up, and mop up. These words all describe the act of taking a piece of bread or food and soaking it in a liquid or sauce to add flavor. They can also be used to describe the act of absorbing moisture or liquid with a piece of bread or sponge. Each of these synonyms can be used in different contexts to describe the same process of soaking food in a liquid or sauce.

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Usage examples for Sops

By the Sarum Missal it is directed that the sops immersed in this wine, as well as the liquor itself, and the cup that contained it, should be blessed by the priest.
"Old Church Lore"
William Andrews
And it shall come to passe as thou sittest in the boat thou shalt see an old man swimming on the top of the river, holding up his deadly hands, and desiring thee to receive him into the barke, but have no regard to his piteous cry; when thou art passed over the floud, thou shalt espie old women spinning, who will desire thee to helpe them, but beware thou do not consent unto them in any case, for these and like baits and traps will Venus set to make thee let fall one of thy sops, and thinke not that the keeping of thy sops is a light matter, for if thou leese one of them thou shalt be assured never to returne againe to this world.
"The Golden Asse"
Lucius Apuleius
They sop up literature or facts as a sponge sops up water; then, like human sponges, do nothing with their wisdom.
"Editorials-from-the-Hearst-Newspapers"
Brisbane, Arthur

Famous quotes with Sops

  • I am distinctly opposed to visibly arrogant and arbitrary extremes of government—but this is simply because I wish the safety of an artistic and intellectual civilisation to be secure, not because I have any sympathy with the coarse-grained herd who would menace the civilisation if not placated by sops. Surely you can see the profound and abysmal difference between this emotional attitude and the attitude of the democratic reformer who becomes wildly excited over the "wrongs of the masses". This reformer has uppermost in his mind the welfare of those masses themselves—he feels with them, takes up a mental-emotional point of view as one of them, regards their advancement as his prime objective independently of anything else, and would willingly sacrifice the finest fruits of the civilisation for the sake of stuffing their bellies and giving them two cinema shows instead of one per day. I, on the other hand, don't give a hang about the masses except so far as I think deliberate cruelty is coarse and unaesthetic—be it towards horses, oxen, undeveloped men, dogs, negroes, or poultry. All that I care about is —the state of development and organisation which is capable of gratifying the complex mental-emotional-aesthetic needs of highly evolved and acutely sensitive men. Any I may feel in the whole matter is not for the woes of the downtrodden, but for the threat of social unrest to the traditional institutions of the civilisation. The reformer cares only for the masses, but may make concessions to the civilisation. I care only for the civilisation, but may make concessions to the masses. Do you not see the antipodal difference between the two positions? Both the reformer and I may unite in opposing an unworkably arrogant piece of legislation, but the motivating reasons will be absolutely antithetical. He wants to give the crowd as as can be given them without wrecking all semblance of civilisation, whereas I want to give them only as much as can be given them without even slightly impairing the level of national culture. ... He works for as democratic a government ; I for as aristocratic a one . But both recognise the limitations of possibility.
    H. P. Lovecraft

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