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They never offered me a bit or a sup--I think they might have done that, don't you, Mrs. Bunting Yes," she said absently.

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  1. transitive and intransitive verb To eat or drink (something) or engage in eating or drinking by taking small swallows or mouthfuls: supped the hot soup; supped away daintily.
  2. noun A small swallow or mouthful of liquid food; a sip.
  3. intransitive verb To eat an evening meal; have supper.

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  • I poured this into a pannikin and took a sup, and a finer drop of spirits I never swallowed in all my life; its elegant perfume proved it amazingly choice and old. —  The Frozen Pirate
  • Then cutting four large steaks from its flanks we proceeded to sup, after which we made our arrangements for spending the night there. —  The Gorilla Hunters
  • They had very little to bite or to sup, and once, when there was great dearth in the land, the man could not even gain the daily bread. —  Household Stories by the Brothers Grimm
  • I'll go [_aside_]; but, by this hand, I'll tell my mistress as soon as I come home that mistress light-heels comes to dinner to-morrow Exit Y. ART. Sweet Mistress Mary, I'll invite myself: And there I'll frolic, sup, and spend the night. —  A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 9
  • "Be hanged to your jargon You'll take another sup, my lad, if I hold your long nose to it. —  The Highwayman
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  1. Middle English soupen, from Old English sūpan; see seuə-2 in Indo-European roots.
  2. Middle English soupen, from Old French souper, from soupe, soup; see soup.

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  1. Also dial. soup (pron. soup), sope; from Middle English soupen (preterit soop), from Anglo-Saxon sūpan (preterit seáp, past participle sopen) = AID. suypen, Dutch zuipen = Middle Low German sūpen, Low German supen = Old High German sūfan, Middle High German sūfen, German saufen = Icelandic sūpa = Swedish supa, sup; Teutonic √ sup, sup, sip. Hence ult. sup, n., sip, sop, and, through F.,soup, supper: see supper.
  2. from sup, v. Cf. sop, n., and sip, n.
 

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