Soap Definition

sōp
soaped, soaping, soaps
noun
soaps
A substance used with water to produce suds for washing or cleaning: soaps are usually sodium or potassium salts of fatty acids, produced by the action of an alkali, as caustic soda or potash, on fats or oils.
Webster's New World
Any metallic salt of a fatty acid.
Webster's New World

Money, especially that which is used for bribery.

American Heritage

Soap opera.

Webster's New World
Synonyms:
verb
soaped, soaping, soaps
To lather, scrub, etc. with soap.
Webster's New World
To softsoap; cajole.
American Heritage
To bribe.
American Heritage
(informal) To be discreet about (a topic).
Wiktionary

(slang, dated) To flatter; to wheedle.

Wiktionary
Synonyms:
idiom
no soap
  • Not possible or permissible.
  • Unsuccessful; futile.
American Heritage
no soap
  • the offer, idea, etc. is not acceptable
  • to no avail
Webster's New World

Other Word Forms of Soap

Noun

Singular:
soap
Plural:
soaps

Idioms, Phrasal Verbs Related to Soap

Origin of Soap

  • 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

Soap Sentence Examples

  • He smelled of soap, and his hair was wet.

  • Katie cupped a soap sud clad hand to her ear.

  • She focused on mixing dish soap and lemon juice in her palm.

  • The entire affair was a damn soap opera.

  • It had to be the shampoo or soap, because she wasn't wearing perfume.

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Words Starting With

SSOSOA

Words Ending With

PAPOAP

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