soup
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /suːp/
enpr: so͞op
ipa: /sup/
rhymes: -uːp
Forms: form: soups
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: Pho is a traditional Vietnamese soup.
text: Soupes dorye. — Take gode almaunde mylke […] caste þher-to Safroun an Salt […]
ref: 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
glosses: Any of various dishes commonly made by combining liquids, such as water or stock, with other ingredients, such as meat and vegetables, that contribute the food value, flavor, and texture.
glosses: Any of various dishes commonly made by combining liquids, such as water or stock, with other ingredients, such as meat and vegetables, that contribute the food value, flavor, and texture.
A serving of such a dish, typically in a bowl.
glosses: Any of various dishes commonly made by combining liquids, such as water or stock, with other ingredients, such as meat and vegetables, that contribute the food value, flavor, and texture.
The liquid part of such a dish; the broth.
examples: text: 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.
ref: 2020 November 18, Drachinifel, 6:21 from the start, in The Salvage of Pearl Harbor Pt 2 - Up She Rises!, archived from the original on 22 Oct 2022:
glosses: Any mixture or substance suggestive of soup consistency.
glosses: Any mixture or substance suggestive of soup consistency.
Thick fog or cloud (also pea soup).
glosses: Any mixture or substance suggestive of soup consistency.
Nitroglycerine or gelignite, especially when used for safe-cracking.
examples: text: […]who lounged hungry and lonesome through Houston seeking jazz or sex or soup[…]
ref: 1956, Allen Ginsberg, “Howl”, in Howl and Other Poems (Pocket Poets Series), City Lights Books, →OCLC, page 11:
glosses: Any mixture or substance suggestive of soup consistency.
Dope or cocaine.
qualifier: cant
topics: arts
hobbies
lifestyle
photography
glosses: Any mixture or substance suggestive of soup consistency.
Processing chemicals into which film is dipped, such as developer.
examples: text: primordial soup
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Any mixture or substance suggestive of soup consistency.
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.
examples: text: 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.”
ref: 1960, P. G. Wodehouse, Jeeves in the Offing, chapter I and X:
glosses: Any mixture or substance suggestive of soup consistency.
An unfortunate situation; trouble, problems (a fix, a mess); chaos.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
surfing
glosses: Any mixture or substance suggestive of soup consistency.
The foamy portion of a wave.
topics: cellular-automata
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Any mixture or substance suggestive of soup consistency.
Any random starting pattern, typically studied to see what sorts of resultant more stable patterns emerge when evolved over subsequent generations.
Hyponyms: alphabet soup
beef soup
beer soup
bird's nest soup
bisque
black sesame soup
black soup
bouillon
bread soup
broth
brown Windsor soup
canned soup
chicken noodle soup
chicken soup
chowder
clam chowder
condensed soup
consommé
cow cod soup
cream soup
dessert soup
dog's soup
duck soup
egg drop soup
egg flower soup
fisherman's soup
fish soup
French onion soup
fruit soup
gazpacho
gruel
Holy Ghost soup
hot and sour soup
Italian wedding soup
Italian Wedding soup
Lady Curzon soup
leek soup
lentil 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
purée
Saturday soup
sauerkraut soup
Senate bean soup
shark fin soup
she-crab soup
shot soup
soup du jour
soup joumou
soup meagre
soup of the day
stone soup
summer soup
tomato soup
turtle soup
turtle-soup
vegetable soup
velouté
wedding soup
wine soup
winter melon soup
Xavier soup
Derived terms: alphabet soup
beef soup
beer soup
bird's nest soup
black sesame soup
black soup
bread soup
brown Windsor soup
canned soup
chicken noodle 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 flower soup
electric soup
fisherman's soup
fish soup
French onion soup
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
no soup for you
nsala soup
oxtail soup
Palestine soup
pea soup
pea-soup fog
pea soup fog
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 mandel
soup meagre
soup of the day
soup plate
soup run
soup sandwich
soup spoon
soup strainer
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
Related terms: supper
porridge
stew