soup
English
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[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- (UK) IPA(key): /suːp/
- (US) enPR: so͞op, IPA(key): /sup/
Audio (Received Pronunciation): (file) Audio (General American): (file) - Rhymes: -uːp
Etymology 1
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The noun is from Middle English soupe, sowpe, from Old French soupe, souppe, sope, from Late Latin suppa (“sopped bread”), from Proto-Germanic *supô (compare Middle Dutch sope (“broth”)). Doublet of zuppa. See also sop and supper.
The verb is from the noun.[1]
Noun
[edit]soup (countable and uncountable, plural soups)
- Any of various dishes commonly made by combining liquids, such as water or stock with other ingredients, such as meat and vegetables, that contribute flavor and texture.
- Pho is a traditional Vietnamese soup.
- c. 1430 (reprinted 1888), Thomas Austin, ed., Two Fifteenth-century Cookery-books. Harleian ms. 279 (ab. 1430), & Harl. ms. 4016 (ab. 1450), with Extracts from Ashmole ms. 1429, Laud ms. 553, & Douce ms. 55 [Early English Text Society, Original Series; 91], London: N. Trübner & Co. for the Early English Text Society, volume I, OCLC 374760, page 11:
- Soupes dorye. — Take gode almaunde mylke […] caste þher-to Safroun an Salt […]
- (countable) A serving of such a dish, typically in a bowl.
- (uncountable) The liquid part of such a dish; the broth.
- (figuratively) Any mixture or substance suggestive of soup consistency.
- 2020 November 18, Drachinifel, 6:21 from the start, in The Salvage of Pearl Harbor Pt 2 - Up She Rises![1], archived from the original on 22 October 2022:
- The cleanup job would turn out to be possibly second only to body-recovery duty in terms of being a job that nobody wanted to get assigned to. Imagine, for a moment, a thick soup of oil, paper, ink, clothing, raw meat and other fresh provisions, and worse, that had all been left to collect together in semi-warm water, all enclosed in a large metal container that had then been subjected to heating by first fire and then repeated warm Hawaiian days, and then left to ferment for over a month, and then with most of the water drained away and all the remaining solid and semi-liquid mass collecting together in pools and heaps across multiple decks, still in a relatively-enclosed environment.
- (slang) Thick fog or cloud (also pea soup).
- (US, slang) Nitroglycerine or gelignite, especially when used for safe-cracking.
- (cant) Dope or cocaine.
- 1956, Allen Ginsberg, “Howl”, in Howl and Other Poems (Pocket Poets Series), City Lights Books, →OCLC, page 11:
- […] who lounged hungry and lonesome through Houston seeking jazz or sex or soup […]
- (photography) Processing chemicals into which film is dipped, such as developer.
- (biology) A liquid or gelatinous substrate, especially the mixture of organic compounds that is believed to have played a role in the origin of life on Earth.
- (UK, informal, often with "the") An unfortunate situation; trouble, problems (a fix, a mess); chaos.
- 1960, P. G. Wodehouse, Jeeves in the Offing, chapter I and X:
- B. Wickham had also the disposition and general outlook on life of a ticking bomb. In her society you always had the uneasy feeling that something was likely to go off at any moment with a pop. You never knew what she was going to do next or into what murky depths of soup she would carelessly plunge you. [...] “It may be fun for her,” I said with one of my bitter laughs, “but it isn't so diverting for the unfortunate toads beneath the harrow whom she plunges so ruthlessly in the soup.”
- (surfing) The foamy portion of a wave.
Hyponyms
[edit]Derived terms
[edit]- alphabet soup
- beef soup
- beer soup
- bird's nest soup
- black sesame soup
- black soup
- bread soup
- brown Windsor soup
- canned soup
- chicken soup
- condensed soup
- cow cod soup
- crazy as a soup sandwich
- cream soup
- dessert soup
- dog's soup
- duck soup
- egg drop soup
- egg drop soup
- egg flower soup
- electric soup
- electric soup
- fisherman's soup
- fish soup
- French onion soup
- from soup to nuts
- fruit soup
- hot and sour soup
- in the soup
- Italian Wedding soup
- Italian wedding soup
- Lady Curzon soup
- laughing soup
- leek soup
- lentil soup
- lunatic soup
- macaroni soup
- Mexican dry soup
- miso soup
- mock turtle soup
- moon soup
- noodle soup
- nsala soup
- oxtail soup
- Palestine soup
- pea soup
- pepperpot soup
- polygon soup
- primeval soup
- primordial soup
- quantum soup
- Saturday soup
- sauerkraut soup
- shark fin soup
- she-crab soup
- shit soup
- shot soup
- soup and fish
- soup-and-fish
- soup-and-fish suit
- soup base
- soup beans
- soup bone
- soup bowl
- soup du jour
- soup dumpling
- souped-up
- souper
- soup fire
- souping
- soup kitchen
- soup legs
- soup meagre
- soup of the day
- soup plate
- soup sandwich
- soup spoon
- soup strainer
- soup-to-nuts
- soup to nuts
- soup up
- soupy
- spring soup
- stagger soup
- stone soup
- tag soup
- that's the ticket for soup
- tomato soup
- too many cooks spoil the soup
- vegetable soup
- wedding soup
- wine soup
- winter melon soup
- word soup
- Xavier soup
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See also
[edit]Verb
[edit]soup (third-person singular simple present soups, present participle souping, simple past and past participle souped)
- (uncommon) To feed: to provide with soup or a meal.
- 1845, Charles Rowcroft, Tales of the Colonies: Or, The Adventures of an Emigrant, page 432:
- I'm blessed if I've heard about any thing but kangaroo-tail soup all the while I was at Launceston. They souped me there night and day.
- 1896, Charles Reade, Readiana; Comments on Current Events, page 2:
- Now laughing together thaws our human ice; long before Swindon it was a talking match, —at Swindon who so devoted as Captain Dolignan,—he handed them out—he souped them,—he tough-chickened them,—he brandied and cochinealed one, and he brandied and burnt-sugared the other;
- 1904 October, “East is East and West is West”, in The Vassar Miscellany, volume 34, number 1, page 236:
- "I was so mad, I let him wait half an hour to-night before I souped him."
- 2011, Diza Sauers, Historama, page 152:
- She cooked huge stock pots and souped her dogs once a day.
- 2008, C Mark Chapoton, A Tale of Two Iditarods, page 34:
- I souped the dogs, and went in for a bite. I ended up going back out and making my pups a full meal, then went back in and pigged out myself.
- (photography) To develop (film) in a (chemical) developing solution.
- 1970 December, The Rotarian, volume 117, number 6, page 31:
- That girl Vivienne, by the way, once worked as a secretary in the workshop of The Rotarian, began "souping" her own snapshots at home, went from there to top rank as a New York color photographer specializing in small children […]
- 1991, Ruth Jean Dale, Society Page:
- "Then perhaps it won't surprise you to learn Annie's taking over the Sunday social column," Roz said. "You photo-guys'll be souping her film."
- 1998, Edward Gorman, Cold Blue Midnight:
- And her camera position had been completely out of his sight. Satisfied that she'd gotten everything she'd needed - much more, in fact - she went back inside and got to work. Jill had souped her first photographs while she'd been on […]
- 2005, Jock Lauterer, Community Journalism: A Personal Approach, page 242:
- By 6 pm Beau and I are back at the paper, souping the film, when Woody rushes into the room.
- (obsolete) To proselytize by feeding the impoverished as long as they listen to one's preaching.
- 1855, William Le Poer Trench, A Digest of the Evidence, Taken Before the Select Committee of the House of Lords, page 280:
- Was the priest who denounced those books of the National Board as "souping books" the patron of a national school?
- 1864, Emily Bowles, Irish Diamonds, Or, A Chronicle of Peterstown, page 203:
- "Souping" in Peterstown came to an end, and Una had enough to do with her full school and ignorant scholars to deaden the sting of her grief for the time.
- 1871, Thomas Curson Hansard, Hansard's Parliamentary Debates, page 1751:
- It was suggested that the briefs should be distributed generally; but they could not be spread as they were at Manchester, Liverpool, and Leeds, where briefs where "souped" out.
- 1877, Mary Hartley, The Hon. Miss Ferrard, page 101:
- Yes, and it was all done in pure charity, no souping swaddling mixture whatever. The Fitz-Ffoulkes had none of that about them .
- 1887 January, “November in Kerry”, in Time: A Monthly Magazine, volume 5, page 36:
- Before long we passed a Scripture-reader (such the driver said he was), reading a book as a priest does his breviary. I though him not out of place; for anything madder than the whole system of "souping" it is hard to imagine. In Kerry you see signs of it here and there, as you do in Connemara.
- 1891, Thomas Curson Hansard, Hansard's Parliamentary Debates, page 838:
- I ask, Sir, what right has the hon. Member to call any Protestant minister a souping parson?.
Etymology 2
[edit]From Middle English soupen, from Old English sūpan (“to sup, sip”), from Proto-Germanic *sūpaną. More at sup.
Verb
[edit]soup (third-person singular simple present soups, present participle souping, simple past and past participle souped)
- Alternative form of sup (“to sip; to take a small amount of food or drink into the mouth, especially with a spoon”).
Etymology 3
[edit]From Middle English soupe, from Old English sūpe (“sup; draught”).
Noun
[edit]soup (plural soups)
Etymology 4
[edit]From Middle English swopen, from Old English swāpan (“to sweep”), from Proto-Germanic *swaipaną (“to sweep”). More at sweep.
Alternative forms
[edit]Verb
[edit]soup (third-person singular simple present soups, present participle souping, simple past and past participle souped)
- (obsolete) To sweep.
- 1597, Joseph Hall, Virgidemiarum:
- He vaunts his voice upon an hired stage, With high-set steps and princely carriage, Now souping in side robes of royalty.
- 1598, John Marston, The Scourge of Villanie:
- Methinks I hear swart Martius cry, Souping along in war's fein'd maskerie, By Lais starrie front he'll forthwith die.
- 1808, Joseph Hall, Josiah Pratt, “Quo Vadis? A Censure of Travel”, in Miscellaneous works, page 238:
- We can tell of those cheap-dieted men, that live about the head of Ganges, without meat, without mouths, feeding only upon air at their nostrils; or of those headless eastern people, that have their eyes in their breast; a mis-conceit arising from their fashion of attire, which I have sometimes seen; or those Coromandae, of whom Pliny speaks, that cover their whole body with their ears; or of the persecutors of St. Thomas of Canterbury, whose posterity, if we believe the confident writings of Degrassalius, are born with long and hairy tails, souping after them; which, I imagine, gave occasion to that proverbial jest, wherewith our mirth uses to upgraid the Kentish; or of Amazons; or Pigmies; or Satyrs;
Etymology 5
[edit]From Middle English soupen, suppen, from Anglo-Norman super, from supe, soupe (“soup”) + -er (verb-forming suffix).
Verb
[edit]soup (third-person singular simple present soups, present participle souping, simple past and past participle souped)
- Rare form of sup (“to take supper”).
- a. 1618, Mark Napier, quoting James Melville, chapter III, in Memoirs of John Napier of Merchiston, His Lineage, Life, and Times, with a History of the Invention of Logarithms, Edinburgh: William Blackwood; London: Thomas Cadell, published 1834, page 116:
- When I cam that tym to the court, I fand my Lord Due of Orkney sitting at his supper. He said I had bene a gret stranger, desyring me to sit down and soup with him. The Erie of Huntly, the justice-clark, and dyvers uthers, wer sitten at the table with him. I said that I had already souped.
- 1842 May 12, Thomas Moore, “1842”, in Wilfred S. Dowden, Barbara G. Bartholomew, Joy L. Linsley, editors, The Journal of Thomas Moore, volumes 5 (1836–1842), Newark, Del.: University of Delaware Press; London; Toronto, Ont.: Associated University Presses, published 1988, →ISBN, page 2245:
- Breakfasted with Rogers, who asked me to dine to-day and tomorrow—promised for both days—Most agreeably surprised by a note from my friend Tom Boyse, who is in London with his sister—Called upon them & found to my disappointment they were to be off again so soon as tomorrow—Offered myself for dinner to-day though with the fear of Rogers before my eyes, to whom I wrote to announce my defection and its cause—Only the Boyses themselves, young Carew (Lord Carew’s son) who souped with us, being obliged to set off immediately to the new Opera—[…]
- 1904, H[ans] H[ermann] Behr, “Ethnology”, in The Hoot of the Owl, San Francisco, Calif.: A. M. Robertson, page 104:
- For weeks I had breakfasted, lunched, dined, and souped on mutton.
References
[edit]- ^ James A. H. Murray [et al.], editors (1884–1928), “Soup (sūp), v.”, in A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (Oxford English Dictionary), volumes IX, Part 1 (Si–St), London: Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 473, column 3: “f. Soup sb.”
Further reading
[edit]- Eric Partridge (2005) “soup”, in Tom Dalzell and Terry Victor, editors, The New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English, volume 2 (J–Z), London, New York, N.Y.: Routledge, →ISBN, page 1820.
- “soup n.”, in Green’s Dictionary of Slang, Jonathon Green, 2016–present
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