sop
noun
[ sɒp ]
• a thing of no great value given or done as a concession to appease someone whose main concerns or demands are not being met.
• "my agent telephones as a sop but never finds me work"
• a piece of bread dipped in gravy, soup, or sauce.
sop
verb
• soak up liquid using an absorbent substance.
• "he used some bread to sop up the sauce"
Origin:
Old English soppian ‘dip (bread) in liquid’, sopp (noun), probably from the base of Old English sūpan ‘sup’. Sense 1 (mid 17th century) alludes to the sop used by Aeneas on his visit to Hades to appease Cerberus.
