sup
/sʌp/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.56 in modern English
5
Scrabble Score
3
Letters
1
Syllables
3
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Being or relating to the squark that is the superpartner of an up quark.
noun
Example Sentences
- "There I'll sup / Balm and nectar in my cup."
- "We stood upon the forehead of the hills, / And lifted up our hearts in prayer; / And as we halted, reverent, / Meseemed that Nature o’er us bent, / That she did bid us sup / From bread she gave and from her cup."
- "And as she supped her tea she smiled discreetly at him over the brim."
- "On market days the farmers would come in before going home - Tysons and Lindsays and Birketts and Longmires and Boows and Dawsons - and their dogs would lie in heaps on the flags while they themselves supped Gerald's ale."
- "Not a sup will I swallow, nor a bit will I bite, till Burd Ellen is set free."
- "Is it stoppin' there you'd be till every sup of the say's dhrained out on us to beyant the King Pharaoh's Islands?"
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *sew-? Proto-Indo-European *sewH- Proto-Indo-European *peh₃- Proto-Indo-European *su(H)ph₃néh₂-der.? Proto-Germanic *suppōną Proto-Germanic *sūpaną Proto-West Germanic *sūpan Old English sūpan Middle English soupen English sup The verb is from Middle English soupen, from Old English sūpan (“to sip, drink, taste”), from Proto-Germanic *sūpaną (compare Dutch zuipen (“to drink, tipple, booze”), German saufen (“to drink, booze”), Swedish supa (“to drink, swallow”)), from Proto-Indo-European *sub-, compare Sanskrit सूप (sū́pa, “soup, broth”), from *sewe (“to take liquid”). More at suck. The noun is from the verb. There is no evidence of continuity with Old English supa. Compare Middle English soupe, from Old English sūpe, which has the same meaning as Middle English sope (“a mouthful or small amount of drink”), from Old English sopa, whence sop.