sopping

• Rhymes: -ɒpɪŋ

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sopping (comparative more sopping, superlative most sopping)

1. Soaked, drenched, completely wet to the point of dripping.
   • 1952, Garth Williams, Charlotte's web:

     The grass was wet and the earth smelled of springtime. Fern's sneakers were sopping by the time she caught up with her father.

   • 1986, John le Carré, A Perfect Spy:

     A swirling, sopping, doomladen midmorning, take my word for it, and myself, as I say, an unborn ghost, not ordered, not delivered and certainly not paid for: myself a deaf microphone, planted but inactive in any but the biological meaning.

sopping

1. present participle and gerund of sop

sopping (plural soppings)

1. A soaking.
   • 1889, William Dawes, Elijer Goff's Complete Works, page 101:

     There were hot miseries and cold miseries; saline unpleasantries, partial wettings and complete soppings; […]

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