[f. as prec.] Soaking; drenched; saturated with water or rain.
1877. W. S. Gilbert, Foggerty’s Fairy (1892), 182. Two sopping females have quartered themselves on two dry bachelors.
1886. J. Ashby-Sterry, Lazy Minstrel (1892), 78. The sopping sky is leaden grey.
b. Quasi-adv., as sopping sad, wet.
Freq. in recent use: cf. WFlem. zoppende nat.
1866. R. R. Bealey, Poems, Mally, 30. An’ then turn’d soppin sad.
1897. Mrs. Comyns Carr, Cottage Folk, 144. Why’s your feet soppin’ wet?
