sopping

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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
sopping /ˈsɒpɪŋ/ (also sopping wet)

▶adjective wet through.

– origin C19: pres. part. of sop.

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
sop/sɒp/

▶noun

• 1 a thing given or done to appease or bribe someone.

• 2 a piece of bread dipped in gravy, soup, or sauce.

▶verb (sops, sopping, sopped) (sop something up) soak up liquid.

■ archaic soak.

– origin OE soppian ‘dip bread in liquid’, sopp (n.), prob. from the base of OE sūpan ‘sup’.