sup

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a small amount of liquid food

   A sup of ale.

2. 2
   verb

   To sip; to take a small amount of food or drink into the mouth, especially with a spoon.

   There I'll sup / Balm and nectar in my cup.

3. 3
   noun

   A sip; a small amount, of food or drink, water or rain.

   Is it stoppin' there you'd be till every sup of the say's dhrained out on us to beyant the King Pharaoh's Islands?

4. 4
   verb

   To eat supper.

   ...I propose we should have up the cold pie, and let him sup.

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *sew-? Proto-Indo-European *sewH- Proto-Indo-European *peh₃- Proto-Indo-European *su(H)ph₃néh₂-der.? Proto-Germanic *suppōną Proto-Germanic *sūpaną Proto-West Germanic *sūpan Old English sūpan Middle English soupen English sup The verb is from Middle English soupen, from Old English sūpan (“to sip, drink, taste”), from Proto-Germanic *sūpaną (compare Dutch zuipen (“to drink, tipple, booze”), German saufen (“to drink, booze”), Swedish supa (“to drink, swallow”)), from Proto-Indo-European *sub-, compare Sanskrit सूप (sū́pa, “soup, broth”), from *sewe (“to take...

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