soup

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   an unfortunate situation

   we're in the soup now

2. 2
   noun

   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.

   Pho is a traditional Vietnamese soup.

3. 3
   noun

   Any mixture or substance suggestive of soup consistency.

   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.

4. 4
   verb

   To feed: to provide with soup or a meal.

   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.

5. 5
   verb

   To develop (film) in a (chemical) developing solution.

   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 […]

6. 6
   verb

   To proselytize by feeding the impoverished as long as they listen to one's preaching.

   Was the priest who denounced those books of the National Board as "souping books" the patron of a national school?

7. 7
   verb

   To sweep.

   He vaunts his voice upon an hired stage, With high-set steps and princely carriage, Now souping in side robes of royalty.

8. 8
   verb

   Rare form of sup (“to take supper”).

   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.

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.