▪ I. † dop, v. Obs.
[ME. doppen:—OE. type *dop-pian, represented by freq. doppettan to dip, immerse, baptize, and ns. doppa, dop-enid, doppe; f. weak grade of *deup-an: see dip v. and depe v.]
1. intr. To descend or sink suddenly into water or the like, to plump or ‘pop’ down; to dive.
| c 1380 Wyclif Serm. Sel. Wks. I. 246 Þei doppen now to helle. 1398 Trevisa Barth. De P.R. xii. xxvi. (1495) 429 The Cote highte Mergulus and hath that name of ofte doppynge and plungynge. 1579–80 North Plutarch (1676) 421 Like Tonny Fish they be, which swiftly dive and dop into the depth of Ocean Sea. 1682 Dryden Unhappy Favourite Epil. 2 We..like drowning men, But just peep up, and then dop down again. |
2. To duck or suddenly drop the head or body; to curtsy.
| c 1557 in Hazl. E.P.P. III. 126 This fained frier..dopped than, and greet this man religiously and ofte. 1635 J. Rous Diary (Camden) 79 He dops, ducks, bowes, as made all of joints. 1692 Dennis Poems in Burlesque 9, I dopt for safety as an Officer Does in a Fight, when he's a Novice. |
3. trans. To immerse smartly, to dip (as in baptism).
| 1538 Bale God's Promises vii. in Dodsley O. Pl. I. 36 Preache to the people..Doppe them in water—they knowledgynge their offence. 1633 Rogers Treat. Sacram. i. 78 Hee should bee baptized, which word signifieth..to dip or dop the body, or some part of it, into the water. |
4. Angling. (trans. and intr.) = dap v. 1.
| 1651 T. Barker Art of Angling (1653) 7 Dop your Flie behinde a Bush, which angling I have had good sport at; we call it doping. 1653 Walton Angler iv. 118 With these [flies] and a short line, as I showed to angle for a chub—you may dap or dop. |
Hence ˈdopping vbl. n. and ppl. a.
| 1398 [see 1]. 1597 1st Pt. Return fr. Parnass. Prol. 2 That dopping curtesie, That fawninge bowe. 1654 H. L'Estrange Chas. I (1655) 96 Erecting of fixed altars, the dopping and cringing towards them. |
▪ II. † dop, n.1 Obs.
[f. prec. vb.]
A curtsy, a dip.
| 1599 B. Jonson Cynthia's Rev. v. ii, The Venetian dop this. 1650 T. Bayly Herba Parietis 28 Making many pretty dops, and curtchees. 1704 D'Urfey Hell beyond H. 94 Salutes the Punts with Bows and Dops. a 1825 Forby Voc. E. Anglia, Dop, a short quick curtsey. |
▪ III. dop, n.2
(dɒp)
[a. Du. dop shell, husk, cover.]
† 1. The pupa-case or cocoon of an insect. rare.
| 1700 A. van Leeuwenhoek in Phil. Trans. XXII. 640, I have seen some flies as soon as ever they came out of their Dop. |
2. Diamond-cutting. A small copper cup with a handle, into which a diamond is cemented, to be held while being cut or polished.
| 1764 Croker, etc. Dict. Arts & Sc. s.v. Diamond-cutting, Diamonds, soldered into a hollow piece of metal: the work⁓men call them dops. 1882 Standard 5 Sept. 6/2 The polisher sets the diamond in a mass of solder held in a little brass cup about an inch in diameter, with a string of stout copper wire for a handle. This instrument is called a ‘dop’. |
▪ IV. dop, n.3 S. Afr.
[Afrikaans.]
1. In full dop brandy. Cape brandy, made from grape-skins.
| 1889 ‘Argus’ Ann. & S. Afr. Directory 338/1 Thus we obtain ‘Cognac’, ‘Dop’, and ‘Cango’ brandy from spirits of wine. 1895 W. C. Scully Kafir Stories 18 Jim..got his daily number of tots of poisonous ‘dop’ brandy. 1896 Johannesburg Weekly Times 8 Aug. 8 Several samples of whiskies, Cape dop, and Cape brandy were examined. 1896 Baden-Powell Matabeleland Camp. 347 We just had sufficient ‘dop’ (Dutch brandy) to give everybody a tot in which to drink her health. 1901 Westm. Gaz. 11 May 5/1 A bottle of ‘Dop’—or Cape gin. 1910 ‘R. Dehan’ Dop Doctor (1913) xiii. 98 ‘Dop’, being the native name for the cheapest and most villainous of Cape brandies, has come to signify alcoholic drinks in general. 1921 Chambers's Jrnl. 647/1 The Cape ‘dop’ bottle brought oblivion to his tortured mind. 1950 L. G. Green At Daybreak for Isles i. 4 Dop brandy was to be had for sixpence a bottle. |
2. A tot, especially of wine as given to farm labourers in the Western Province of the Cape.
| 1950 Cape Times (Week-end Mag.) 17 June 5/4 The pay of the mailer is good... Added to this, there is an occasional dop from both shebeener and customer. 1961 Cape Argus 8 Aug. 2/4 He wanted to buy a ‘dop’. |
▪ V. dop
obs. form of deep.