soup

noun

1. (countable, uncountable)Any of various dishes commonly made by combining liquids, such as water or stock, with other ingredients, such as meat and vegetables, that contribute the food value, flavor, and texture.

   “Pho is a traditional Vietnamese soup.”

   “Soupes dorye. — Take gode almaunde mylke […] caste þher-to Safroun an Salt […]”

2. (countable)Any of various dishes commonly made by combining liquids, such as water or stock, with other ingredients, such as meat and vegetables, that contribute the food value, flavor, and texture.
3. (uncountable)Any of various dishes commonly made by combining liquids, such as water or stock, with other ingredients, such as meat and vegetables, that contribute the food value, flavor, and texture.
4. (countable, figuratively, uncountable)Any mixture or substance suggestive of soup consistency.
5. (countable, figuratively, slang, uncountable)Any mixture or substance suggestive of soup consistency.
6. (US, countable, figuratively, slang, uncountable)Any mixture or substance suggestive of soup consistency.
7. (countable, figuratively, uncountable)Any mixture or substance suggestive of soup consistency.

   “[…]who lounged hungry and lonesome through Houston seeking jazz or sex or soup[…]”

8. (countable, figuratively, uncountable)Any mixture or substance suggestive of soup consistency.
9. (countable, figuratively, uncountable)Any mixture or substance suggestive of soup consistency.

   “primordial soup”

10. (UK, countable, figuratively, informal, often, uncountable, with-definite-article)Any mixture or substance suggestive of soup consistency.

    “B. Wickham had also the disposition and general outlook on life of a ticking bomb. In her society you always had the uneasy feeling that something was likely to go off at any moment with a pop. You never knew what she was going to do next or into what murky depths of soup she would carelessly plunge you. [...] “It may be fun for her,” I said with one of my bitter laughs, “but it isn't so diverting for the unfortunate toads beneath the harrow whom she plunges so ruthlessly in the soup.””

11. (countable, figuratively, uncountable)Any mixture or substance suggestive of soup consistency.
12. (countable, figuratively, uncountable)Any mixture or substance suggestive of soup consistency.
13. (alt-of, alternative)Alternative form of sup (“a sip; a small amount of food or drink”).

verb

1. (uncommon)To feed: to provide with soup or a meal.

   “I'm blessed if I've heard about any thing but kangaroo-tail soup all the while I was at Launceston. They souped me there night and day.”

   “Now laughing together thaws our human ice; long before Swindon it was a talking match, —at Swindon who so devoted as Captain Dolignan,—he handed them out—he souped them,—he tough-chickened them,—he brandied and cochinealed one, and he brandied and burnt-sugared the other;”

   “"I was so mad, I let him wait half an hour to-night before I souped him."”

   “She cooked huge stock pots and souped her dogs once a day.”

   “I souped the dogs, and went in for a bite. I ended up going back out and making my pups a full meal, then went back in and pigged out myself.”

2. To develop (film) in a (chemical) developing solution.

   “That girl Vivienne, by the way, once worked as a secretary in the workshop of The Rotarian, began "souping" her own snapshots at home, went from there to top rank as a New York color photographer specializing in small children […]”

   “"Then perhaps it won't surprise you to learn Annie's taking over the Sunday social column," Roz said. "You photo-guys'll be souping her film."”

   “And her camera position had been completely out of his sight. Satisfied that she'd gotten everything she'd needed - much more, in fact - she went back inside and got to work. Jill had souped her first photographs while she'd been on […]”

   “By 6 pm Beau and I are back at the paper, souping the film, when Woody rushes into the room.”

3. (obsolete)To proselytize by feeding the impoverished as long as they listen to one's preaching.

   “Was the priest who denounced those books of the National Board as "souping books" the patron of a national school?”

   “"Souping" in Peterstown came to an end, and Una had enough to do with her full school and ignorant scholars to deaden the sting of her grief for the time.”

   “It was suggested that the briefs should be distributed generally; but they could not be spread as they were at Manchester, Liverpool, and Leeds, where briefs where "souped" out.”

   “Yes, and it was all done in pure charity, no souping swaddling mixture whatever. The Fitz-Ffoulkes had none of that about them .”

   “Before long we passed a Scripture-reader (such the driver said he was), reading a book as a priest does his breviary. I though him not out of place; for anything madder than the whole system of "souping" it is hard to imagine. In Kerry you see signs of it here and there, as you do in Connemara.”

4. (alt-of, alternative)Alternative form of sup (“to sip; to take a small amount of food or drink into the mouth, especially with a spoon”).
5. (obsolete)To sweep.

   “He vaunts his voice upon an hired stage, With high-set steps and princely carriage, Now souping in side robes of royalty.”

   “Methinks I hear swart Martius cry, Souping along in war's fein'd maskerie, By Lais starrie front he'll forthwith die.”

6. (form-of, rare)Rare form of sup (“to take supper”).

   “When I cam that tym to the court, I fand my Lord Due of Orkney sitting at his supper. He said I had bene a gret stranger, desyring me to sit down and soup with him. The Erie of Huntly, the justice-clark, and dyvers uthers, wer sitten at the table with him. I said that I had already souped.”

   “For weeks I had breakfasted, lunched, dined, and souped on mutton.”