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Quotation dates: 1811-1852
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SOUP, v.2 Sc. form of Eng. sup, to take one's supper. [sup]Edb. 1811 H. MacNeill Bygane Times 2:
We used to dine, And soup in ane anither's houses.Sc. 1852 Wilson Noctes Amb. (1855) I. 72:
The human race could dine and soup out of the ocean till a' eternity.
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