Meaning

noun liquid food especially of meat or fish or vegetable stock often containing pieces of solid food

noun any composition having a consistency suggestive of soup

noun an unfortunate situation

originThe noun is from Middle English soupe, sowpe, from Old French soupe, souppe, sope, from Late Latin suppa (“sopped bread”), from Proto-Germanic *supô (compare Middle Dutch sope (“broth”)). Doublet of sop and zuppa. See also sup and supper. The verb is from the noun.

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