[f. SOUP sb.] trans. To provide with soup. Hence Souping ppl. a. (cf. SOUPER).
1857. Reade, Box Tunnel, 96. He handed them out—he souped them—he tough-chickened them.
1891. Daily News, 20 Jan., 6/4. The hypocritical cry raised by a gang of souping parsons.
1902. S. Gwynn, in Edin. Rev., July, 135. Luke found himself accused of countenancing the ‘souping’ proselytiser.
Soup, obs. variant of SUP v., SWOOP v.
