Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act of one who sups; the act of taking supper.
- noun obsolete That which is supped; broth.
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- verb Present participle of
sup . - noun The act of one who
sups ; the act of takingsupper . - noun obsolete That which is
supped ;broth .
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- noun ingestion of liquid food with a spoon or by drinking
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Examples
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Quote of the pub: “Oh yes, that really is supping from the appley teet!”
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The water cures any disease, so they say, and at any time a crowd is found around its magic brim filling jars, bottles, and pitchers to take home, or supping from the copper bowl that is chained to the iron bars that cover the well.
Six Months in Mexico 1888
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We did not much relish the idea of supping and sleeping in such a place -- but necessity has no law.
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But the idea of supping with the Duke raised him just now into manifest complacency.
The Cloister and the Hearth Charles Reade 1849
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However, she succeeded in pouring out and carrying into the parlor, without accident, three platefuls of that excellent condiment which formed the frugal supper of the family; but which they ate, I grieve to say, in an orthodox southern fashion, with sugar or treacle, until Mr. Lyon -- greatly horrified thereby -- had instituted his national custom of "supping" porridge with milk.
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"Do you mean that you are not accustomed as I am to invalidism, and hardly like the notion of supping in bed as an introduction to strangers?
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"Do you mean that you are not accustomed as I am to invalidism, and hardly like the notion of supping in bed as an introduction to strangers?
Bricks Without Straw Albion Winegar Tourg��e 1871
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How relish you the idea of supping with Captain Lawton, this evening, Mr. Birch? "
The Spy James Fenimore Cooper 1820
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Since my first sighting of Don Draper supping a scotch I've been hooked on US TV drama.
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His guilelessness seemed to say that there was nothing to see here, folks, just Ranger Rick supping on half-digested chunks of low-grade meat.
Chameleon Andrew Clarke 2011
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