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Sopping   /sˈɑpɪŋ/   Listen
verb
Sop  v. t.  (past & past part. sopped; pres. part. sopping)  To steep or dip in any liquid.



adjective
sopping  adj.  More recent version of soppy. Used esp. in phrase "sopping wet".






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Sopping" Quotes from Famous Books



... balls of soaked moss in his leaf bag. The chemical smell from them blotted out that alien mustiness which the wind brought from the campsite. Shann readied the first sopping mess in his sling, snapped his fire sparker at it, and had the ball awhirl for a toss almost in one continuous movement. The moss burst into fire as it curved out ...
— Storm Over Warlock • Andre Norton

... over the bridge and stopped the traffic that end. Then I had lunch. 'Pity about the beer, though. I say—these cushions are sopping wet!' ...
— A Diversity of Creatures • Rudyard Kipling

... overturned a silver basin full of flowers, and a servant, sopping up the water, had brushed Walter Butler so that he flew into a passion and flung a glass at the terrified black, which set Sir Lupus laughing till he choked, but which enraged me that he should so conduct in the presence ...
— The Maid-At-Arms • Robert W. Chambers

... been but one shot! If only he had been able to find that bullet in the rosery! Robin thought ruefully of his long hunt among the sopping rose-bushes. ...
— The Yellow Streak • Williams, Valentine

... was solid real lace, and the front of it was sopping wet where she'd cried, and the top ...
— The Strange Cases of Dr. Stanchon • Josephine Daskam Bacon


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