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soup Definition

soup (so̵̅o̅p)

noun

  1. a liquid food, with or without solid particles, made by cooking meat, vegetables, fish, etc. in water, milk, or the like
  2. Slang a heavy fog
  3. ☆ Slang nitroglycerin

Etymology: Fr soupe < OFr, soup: see sup

soup Idioms

from soup to nuts

☆ Informal

from beginning to end; completely or exhaustively

in the soup

Slang in trouble

soup up

Slang to increase the power, capacity for speed, etc. of (an engine, etc.)

soup Synonyms

soup

n.

Kinds of soup include: soup du jour (French), beef broth, mutton broth, bouillon, consommé, gumbo, bisque, turkey soup, oxtail soup, chicken soup, tomato soup, mushroom soup, celery soup, cream of tomato bisque, potato soup, purée of peas, soup à la Italienne, minestrone, borscht, borsch, vichyssoise, onion soup, clam broth, clam chowder, fish chowder, gazpacho, bouillabaisse, corn chowder, egg drop soup, won-ton soup, vegetable soup, okra soup, Scotch broth, mulligatawny, turtle soup, mock turtle soup, lentil soup, mongole, navy bean soup, black bean soup, Philadelphia pepperpot, split-pea soup;

soup Usage Examples

Converse of object

  • liquidize: These can be can be grated and added into liquidized soups and sauces.
  • thicken: Mash the beans against the side of the pan with a fork, this allows the beans to thicken the soup.
  • ladle: Ladle the soup into bowls and garnish with minced parsley or scallion.
  • stew: Use in stews, soups, stocks and court bouillon, and sweet or savory sauces.

Adjective modifier

  • homemade: Homemade soup is a great way to eat veg too.
  • home-made: My favorite food is home-made bread with a bowl of home-made tomato soup.
  • primordial: To think life evolved from some primordial soup of chemicals is ridiculous.
  • primeval: To make things more concrete let's imagine a primeval soup in which a simple chemical replicator has arisen.
  • hearty: However, vegetarian tastes are catered for, with appealing salads and thick hearty soups.
  • creamy: I like smooth, creamy soups in the summer, many of which can be served either chilled or hot.

Modifies a noun

  • tureen: This unusual soup tureen - in the form of a turtle - is made of Old Sheffield Plate.
  • kitchen: Around 1990, she opened a small soup kitchen in her own home.

Noun used with modifier

  • miso: First the military miso soup a in the guest.
  • noodle: I made Thai noodle soup followed by Thai green red curry.. .
  • lentil: I have mastered everything from lentil spinach soup to shrimp salad!
  • pea: We had three days of solid pea soup fog.
  • alphabet: From the alphabet soup, which satisfies my requirements best?
  • cabbage: Atkins diet, low carb diets, the cabbage soup diet - they are all here.

Preposition: in

  • blender: Puree the soup in a blender or food processor.

Preposition: with

  • dumpling: My favorite was her home-made chicken soup with dumplings.
soup Quotes

Beautiful Soup, so rich and green, Waiting in a hot tureen! Who for such dainties would not stoop? Soup of the evening, beautiful Soup!

—Dodgson

Gentlemen do not take soup at luncheon. 250

—Curzon (of Kedleston), Lord George Nathaniel

They have no education, no taste for reading, no housewifery, nor, indeed, any earthly occupation but that ofdressingtheirhair, andadorningtheirbodies.Theyhate walking, and would never go abroad, if they were not stimulated by the vanityof being seen† Nothing can be more parsimonious than the economy of these people. They live upon soup and bouille, fish and salad.

—Smollett,Tobias George

Name me one character in literature or drama who can't be described as neurotic† We wouldn't want to know the people we get to see on the stage. How would you like to have Medea for dinner? Or Macbeth slurping your soup? Or Oedipus with his bloody, blinded eyes dripping all over your tablecloth?

—Page, Geraldine

Augustus was a chubby lad; Fat, ruddy cheeks Augustus had: And everybody saw with joy The plump and hearty, healthy boy. He ate and drank as he was told, And never let his soup get cold. But one day, one cold winter's day, He screamed out,'Take the soup away! O take the nasty soup away! I won't have any soup today.'

—Hoffmann, Heinrich

You can't get into the soup in Ireland, do what you like.

—Waugh, Evelyn Arthur StJohn

And the smell of the library was always the sameöthe musty odour of old clothes mixed with the keener scent of unwashed bodies, creating what the chief librarian had once described as 'the steam of the social soup'.

—Ackroyd, Peter

Mr. Leopold Bloom ate with relish the inner organs of beasts and fowls. He liked thick giblet soup, nutty gizzards, a stuffed roast heart; liver slices fried with crustcrumbs, fried hencod's roes. Most of all he liked grilled mutton kidneys which gave to his palate a fine tang of faintly scented urine.

—Joyce,James Augustine Aloysius