dip-sop n [ dip n 5, 6 + sop n 1] Midl
Gravy, esp ham gravy; occas, a sweet sauce..
1871 Bedford Daily Independent (IN) 14 Sept [3]/1, Dip-sop, or gravy, is all the rage at the hotels in Madison, Indiana. Butter is no doubt scarce in that knob bound city. 1895 Carlisle Daily Herald (PA) 20 Nov 1/5, Fresh pork and sausage, ponhaus, fried mush on scrapple, buckwheat cakes, dip sop and lasses. Yum, yum. 1973 Daily Mail (Hagerstown MD) 27 Jan 16/1, [Advt:] Specialties Of The House: . . Country Ham & Dip Sop Gravy. 1967–68 DARE (Qu. H37, . . Gravy) Infs CO11, MD30, Dip-sop. 1978 DARE File neOH (as of 1940s), A woman who ran a boarding house in Hiram hastily apologized when she asked her boarders if they’d like more dip-sop for their pudding. “We used to say dip-sop at home when I was a child,” she apologized, “but I didn’t mean to say it here!” 1987 Chadron Rec. (NE) 28 July sec 2 1/1, Some of our southern relatives serve “dip-sop” with ham. This is milk heated with the ham drippings, and poured over slices of bread. 2012 in 2026 DARE File—Internet nwMD, What delicious strawberry shortcake and mile high angelfood cakes she made. Our daughter loved her ham “dip sop.” 2021 in 2026 DARE File—Internet sAppalachians, Pop-Pop’s father, who died sixteen year before I was born, so I was told, called the un-thickened gravy made by poring water into a skillet that meat had been fried in “dip sop.”