sopper

English

Etymology

sop +‎ -er

Noun

sopper (plural soppers)

  1. One who sops.
    • 18??, Thomas Hood, Ode to St. Swithin
      The very Dryads are not dry, but soppers, / And from the Houses' eaves / Tumble eaves-droppers.
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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for sopper in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Anagrams

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

sopper m

  1. indefinite plural of sopp
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