soup
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
soup/suːp/
▶noun
- 1 a savoury liquid dish made by boiling meat, fish, or vegetables in stock or water.
- 2 informal the chemicals in which film is developed.
- 3 US informal nitroglycerine or gelignite, especially as used for safe-breaking.
■ make something more elaborate or impressive.
– phrases
in the soup informal in trouble.
in the soup informal in trouble.
– origin ME: from OFr. soupe ‘sop, broth (poured on slices of bread)’, from late L. suppa, of Gmc origin; the verb was perh. influenced by super-.
'soup' also found in these Oxford entries:
alphabet soup
- bird's nest soup
- bisque
- borscht
- bouillabaisse
- bouillon
- bouquet garni
- broth
- burgoo
- callaloo
- chiffonade
- chowder
- cock-a-leekie
- consommé
- cream
- crouton
- duck soup
- dunk
- gazpacho
- gumbo
- kreplach
- ladle
- laksa
- madrilene
- matzo ball
- menudo
- minestrone
- mock turtle soup
- mulligatawny
- oxtail
- porridge
- porringer
- potage
- pot-au-feu
- pottage
- primeval soup
- primordial soup
- Scotch broth
- shchi
- sippet
- sop
- soup and fish
- soup kitchen
- soup plate
- soup spoon
- soupy
- stracciatella
- tureen
- turtle
