sugar-sop
(ˈʃʊgəsɒp)
Also 8 Sc. succar-sap, s.w. dial. zugar-zop.
[f. sugar n. + sop n.1]
† 1. pl. A dish composed of steeped slices of bread, sweetened and sometimes spiced. Also fig. (Earlier † sugared sops: see sugared ppl. a. 1.)
| 1581 G. Pettie tr. Guazzo's Civ. Conv. (1586) iii. 175 Two drougs..the one of which or both, the Courtier vsing, may long time maintaine himselfe in his Princes fauour: These are abstinence, or else suger soppes. 1592 Greene Disput. Wks. (Grosart) X. 277 A quart of Sugar sops. 1658 Rowland tr. Moufet's Theat. Ins. 903 You should supply them [bees] with Honey,..give grapes or figs bruised or pounded together, and sugar-sops. 1660 H. More Myst. Godl. x. xiv. 540 Being poisoned or intoxicated with the unwholsome sugar-sops of Antinomianism and Libertinism. 1663 Pepys Diary 17 April, It being Good Friday, our dinner was only sugar-sopps and fish. 1671 Eachard Observ. Answ. Cont. Clergy 5 Sugar-Sops and Soft Jellies. 1729 [Hippisley] Flora i. iv. (ed. 3) 17 Come along Child, and I'll get thee a little Zugar-zops to comfort thy Bowels. a 1776 Wren in Herd Coll. Anc. & Mod. Sc. Songs II. 210 In came Robin Red-breast,..Wi' succar-saps and wyne. |
| attrib. 1742 J. Yarrow Love at first Sight Prol., His Mouth b'ing stopt with Sugar-Sop Preferment. |
2. The West-Indian Sweet-sop,
Anona squamosa.
| 1847 S. Lee Afr. Wand. v. 67 West Indian fruits, such as the delicious cherry, the sugar sop, sour sop, &c. |