soup
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /suːp/
enpr: so͞op
ipa: /sup/
rhymes: -uːp
Forms: form: soups
form: souping
form: souped
form: souped
form: soop
Etymology: 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 sop and zuppa. See also sup and supper.
The verb is from the noun.
Senses: examples: text: 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.
ref: 1845, Charles Rowcroft, Tales of the Colonies: Or, The Adventures of an Emigrant, page 432:
text: 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;
ref: 1896, Charles Reade, Readiana; Comments on Current Events, page 2:
text: "I was so mad, I let him wait half an hour to-night before I souped him."
ref: 1904 October, “East is East and West is West”, in The Vassar Miscellany, volume 34, number 1, page 236:
text: She cooked huge stock pots and souped her dogs once a day.
ref: 2011, Diza Sauers, Historama, page 152:
text: 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.
ref: 2008, C Mark Chapoton, A Tale of Two Iditarods, page 34:
glosses: To feed: to provide with soup or a meal.
examples: text: 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 […]
ref: 1970 December, The Rotarian, volume 117, number 6, page 31:
text: "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."
ref: 1991, Ruth Jean Dale, Society Page:
text: 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 […]
ref: 1998, Edward Gorman, Cold Blue Midnight:
text: By 6 pm Beau and I are back at the paper, souping the film, when Woody rushes into the room.
ref: 2005, Jock Lauterer, Community Journalism: A Personal Approach, page 242:
topics: arts
hobbies
lifestyle
photography
glosses: To develop (film) in a (chemical) developing solution.
examples: text: Was the priest who denounced those books of the National Board as "souping books" the patron of a national school?
ref: 1855, William Le Poer Trench, A Digest of the Evidence, Taken Before the Select Committee of the House of Lords, page 280:
text: "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.
ref: 1864, Emily Bowles, Irish Diamonds, Or, A Chronicle of Peterstown, page 203:
text: 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.
ref: 1871, Thomas Curson Hansard, Hansard's Parliamentary Debates, page 1751:
text: Yes, and it was all done in pure charity, no souping swaddling mixture whatever. The Fitz-Ffoulkes had none of that about them .
ref: 1877, Mary Hartley, The Hon. Miss Ferrard, page 101:
text: 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.
ref: 1887 January, “November in Kerry”, in Time: A Monthly Magazine, volume 5, page 36:
text: I ask, Sir, what right has the hon. Member to call any Protestant minister a souping parson?.
ref: 1891, Thomas Curson Hansard, Hansard's Parliamentary Debates, page 838:
glosses: To proselytize by feeding the impoverished as long as they listen to one's preaching.