Soap Definition
Some soaps are safer for our environment because they use natural ingredients and limit the amount of artificial chemicals typically found in soap.
- Not possible or permissible.
- Unsuccessful; futile.
- the offer, idea, etc. is not acceptable
- to no avail
Origin of Soap
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From Middle English sope, sape, from Old English sāpe (“soap, salve"), from Proto-Germanic *saipÇ, from Proto-Indo-European *seyb-, *seyp- (“to pour out, drip, trickle, strain"). Cognate with Scots saip, sape (“soap"), West Frisian sjippe (“soap"), Dutch zeep (“soap"), Low German sepe (“soap"), German Seife (“soap"), Swedish sÃ¥pa (“soap"), Icelandic sápa (“soap"). Related also to Old English sāp (“amber, resin, pomade, unguent"), Latin sÄ“bum (“tallow, fat, grease"). See seep.
From Wiktionary
Middle English sope from Old English sāpe
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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