Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. To eat or drink (something) or engage in eating or drinking by taking small swallows or mouthfuls: supped the hot soup; supped away daintily.
- n. A small swallow or mouthful of liquid food; a sip.
- v. To eat an evening meal; have supper.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To take into the mouth with the lips, as a liquid; take or drink by a little at a time; sip.
- To eat with a spoon.
- To treat with supper; give a supper to; furnish supper for.
- To eat the evening meal; take supper; in the Bible, to take the principal meal of the day (a late dinner).
- To take in liquid with the lips; sip.
- To eat with a spoon.
- n. A small mouthful, as of liquor or broth; a little taken with the lips; a sip.
- An abbreviation of superfine
- of superior;
- of superlative
- of supine
- of supplement
- of supra
- of supreme.
Wiktionary
- v. To sip; to take a small amount of food or drink into the mouth, especially with a spoon.
- v. To take supper.
- n. A sip; a small amount of food or drink.
- interj. what's up (either as a greeting or actual question).
GNU Webster's 1913
- v. To take into the mouth with the lips, as a liquid; to take or drink by a little at a time; to sip.
- n. A small mouthful, as of liquor or broth; a little taken with the lips; a sip.
- v. To eat the evening meal; to take supper.
- v. To treat with supper.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a small amount of liquid food
- v. take solid or liquid food into the mouth a little at a time either by drinking or by eating with a spoon
Etymologies
- Middle English soupen, from Old English sūpan; see seuə-2 in Indo-European roots.Middle English soupen, from Old French souper, from soupe, soup; see soup.
Examples
“The _Future Tense_ expresses the Time to come; as _I shall sup, I will sup_.”
A Short System of English Grammar For the Use of the Boarding School in Worcester (1759)
“My main sup makes it clear to the co-sups that she makes the decisions and when things get out of hand I just get her to sort things out.”
“Shin Jang-sup is an economics professor at the National University of Singapore and previously was an adviser to the South Korean Ministry of Finance.”
““They need to be told what their priorities are - and safety of the public comes first, particularly if they wish to sup from the public teat””
“One Brow: HGT does not necessarily result in sup-optimal sperm.”
“HGT does not necessarily result in sup-optimal sperm.”
“The author of the post asks a version of your question — “Why would Google and Yahoo be so interested in supporting Wikipedia?””
“That means some vehicles could remain in short supply, but Lyons said Toyota is working to improve inventory.”
“One sark fin sup, One chikin pijjah, One Juliah Lobet, One Mishell Yeoh and One Maly Land Chikin.”
“If so, then the day of grace is not passed with thy soul; for where he doth so knock, there he doth also proffer and promise to come in and sup, that is, to communicate of his love unto them; which he would not do were the day of grace passed with the soul.”
bilby I think we agree on McCourt. Dec 13, 2008
sionnach Wassup?
Sweet lord mother o God, not that bastard Synge.
"holy water in the dark f***ing nights after Samhain" my bloody ass! What a prick! Dec 13, 2008
bilby "MAURYA (Raising her head and speaking as if she did not see the people around her.):
They're all gone now, and there isn't anything more the sea can do to me. . . . I'll have no call now to be up crying and praying when the wind breaks from the south, and you can hear the surf is in the east, and the surf is in the west, making a great stir with the two noises, and they hitting one on the other. I'll have no call now to be going down and getting Holy Water in the dark nights after Samhain, and I won't care what way the sea is when the other women will be keening. (To Nora). Give me the Holy Water, Nora, there's a small sup still on the dresser."
- J. M. Synge, 'Riders to the Sea'. Dec 13, 2008
oroboros Pus in reverse. Nov 2, 2007