sop

noun

• 1a 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

• 2a piece of bread dipped in gravy, soup, or sauce.

verb (sops, sopping, sopped)

• soak up liquid using an absorbent substance:he used some bread to sop up the sauce
• archaic wet thoroughly; soak: the dews ... bemoistening sop his harden’d shoes