winesop

noun

1. A piece of bread soaked in wine; a small cake made with grapes or wine.

   “Hence the proverb […] "to reduce one whose meal is a winesop to a dry crust."”

   “Beatriz, for all her seeming frailty, had borne the long strain better, and presently came, offering winesops, the recognised restorative; small pieces of fine white bread soaked in wine.”

   “His wife gave her a winesop to eat and after, undressing her, put her to bed; and they contrived that night to have her and her maid carried to Florence.”

   “Winesops 1 cup butter 1 1.2 cups brown sugar, firmly packed 1 cup molasses […] 1 cup currants”

2. (broadly, derogatory, figuratively)A drunkard, a wino.

   “"I'm going to give you Mr. Whish — or the winesop that remains of him," continued Attwater.”

   “[…] "we're being maneuvered into providing a gala State funeral for that reprobate winesop."”

   “"Aye, he was good at skulking around and acting like a winesop or an idiot."”