sup1
- to eat the evening meal; have supper.
- to provide with or entertain at supper.
Origin of sup1
sup2
- to take (liquid food, or any liquid) into the mouth in small quantities, as from a spoon or cup; sip.
- to take liquid into the mouth in small quantities, as by spoonfuls or sips.
- a mouthful or small portion of drink or liquid food; sip.
Origin of sup2
sup3
sup4
or 'sup
Origin of sup4
sup.
sup-
- variant of sub- before p: suppose.
Related Words
gargle, consume, imbibe, down, booze, guzzle, nip, belt, toast, sip, irrigate, thirst, gulp, dissipate, quaff, slosh, absorb, swig, inhale, indulgeExamples from the Web for sup
Contemporary Examples
Competence with pain, Coherent miseries, a bite and sup, We hug our little destiny again.
One sure sign Gov. Jindal is hungry for higher office is his willingness to sup at the table of the kook right.
Historical Examples
He is to sup at the Deanery to-morrow, and I am to be in waiting to see him.
The Armourer's PrenticesCharlotte M. Yonge
The king is at the tent of the brave Du Guesclin, where he will sup to night.
The White CompanyArthur Conan Doyle
Duerot has tried his hardest to sup in Lagny, and has been balked by German valour.
Camps, Quarters and Casual PlacesArchibald Forbes
Let us skirt it and push on for Bruton, where we may spare time for bite and sup.'
Micah ClarkeArthur Conan Doyle
And you're not a-going to ask me to take a sup out of that 'ere bottle, eh?'
Barnaby RudgeCharles Dickens
sup1
- (intr) archaic to have supper
- (tr) obsolete to provide with supper
Word Origin
sup2
- to partake of (liquid) by swallowing a little at a time
- Scot and Northern English dialect to drink
- a sip
Word Origin
sup.
- above
- superior
- grammar superlative
Word Origin
Word Origin and History for sup
v.1
"eat the evening meal," late 13c., from Old French super, which probably is from soupe "broth" (see soup), until recently still the traditional evening meal of French workers.
v.2
"sip," Old English supan (West Saxon), suppan, supian (Northumbrian) "to sip, swallow," from Proto-Germanic *supanan (cf. Old Norse supa "to sip, drink," Middle Low German supen, Dutch zuipen "to drink, tipple, booze," Old High German sufan, German saufen "to drink, booze"), from PIE *sub-, possibly an extended form of root *seue- (2) "to take liquid" (cf. Sanskrit sunoti "presses out juice," soma; Avestan haoma, Persian hom "juice;" Greek huetos "rain," huein "to rain;" Latin sugere "to suck," succus "juice, sap;" Lithuanian sula "flowing sap;" Old Church Slavonic soku "sap," susati "suck;" Middle Irish suth "sap;" Old English seaw "sap").