Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A Middle English form of supper.
- n. In Ireland, a name applied in derision to a Protestant missionary or a convert from Roman Catholicism, from the fact that the missionaries are said to assist their work by distributing soup to their converts.
Wiktionary
- n. Ireland, historical Someone who, during the Irish famine, supplied food such as soup to Catholics who converted to Protestantism.
- n. Ireland, historical A (former) Catholic who converted to Protestantism in order to gain such food.
Examples
“* In Chateauneuf du Pape, where we harvested grapes last Sunday, we feasted on porc à la moutarde after the harvest so it somehow seemed sacrilege to finish the vendange and not "souper" * on some comforting potage* this week.”
“Also, elsewhere in the blogosphere, click on this link where Sweetnick's includes my Chicken Vegetable Soup in a Hurry in what appears to be a "souper" roundup of antioxidant rich food recipes.”
“* In Chateauneuf du Pape, where we harvested grapes last Sunday, we feasted on porc à la moutarde after the harvest so it somehow seemed sacrilege to finish the vendange and not "souper"* on some comforting potage* this week.”
“Bring your family together to celebrate this most versatile of culinary creations with a "souper" family supper of Green Chili Chicken Soup, Cornbread and Mixed Baby Greens with Creamy Dressing.”
“Surrounded by red brick houses, topped off by the gray sky, with leftover fog from a pea-souper, which had virtually imprisoned us in the flat for a couple of days.”
The Huffington Post: One For The Table: Tracy Tynan on Flapjacks - The British Madeline
“ESNY – oh my goodness, now I desperately want the souper soup.”
“U nawt da prevert, ai wented tu sea Jefffff Dun Ham dot com las week and all da souper hero cud talk about waz da bobbyz.”
Frank couldn’t believe his eyes. - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
“Yo Yo Ma kitty gitting reddy tew play teh cellol n a souper bowl!”
Lo Five - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
“And there were so many little compromises that cut all the same: limiting the number and length of telephone calls home to the States, cutting up my credit card for a French debit card (credit is not as popular in France) and the tightening of the belt that followed, foregoing a 5: 30 dinner hour for an 8: 30 French souper* ... to name just a few sore spots.”
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Words and phrases of Irish origin, or...
not necessarily eponyms, but might be
boycott, blarney, banshee, galore, keen, donnybrook, colleen, drumlin, phoney, clan, cairn, ceili and 122 more...
Tweets
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uselessness When followed by "Man" it's also a corny joke hero name for a food-centered spandex warrior in epic kitchen kitsch. Feb 23, 2007
sionnach (during the Irish famine) a Protestant supplying food, (usually soup), to the starving if they rejected their Catholic beliefs.
Sometimes referred to the person who had changed religions, rather than the person encouraging them.
Some Catholics, in a desperate attempt to save the lives of their starving children, accepted this preferential treatment by converting to an alien faith and became known as 'Croghan Soupers' - named after a landed aristocracy in Roscommon. Feb 23, 2007