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/ˈwaɪnˌsɒp/ · noun
A piece of bread soaked in wine; a small cake made with grapes or wine..
His wife gave her a winesop to eat and after, undressing her, put her to bed; and they contrived that night to have her and her maid carried to Florence.
Hence the proverb […] "to reduce one whose meal is a winesop to a dry crust."
Beatriz, for all her seeming frailty, had borne the long strain better, and presently came, offering winesops, the recognised restorative; small pieces of fine white bread soaked in wine.
Winesops 1 cup butter 1 1.2 cups brown sugar, firmly packed 1 cup molasses […] 1 cup currants
"I'm going to give you Mr. Whish — or the winesop that remains of him," continued Attwater.
[…] "we're being maneuvered into providing a gala State funeral for that reprobate winesop."
"Aye, he was good at skulking around and acting like a winesop or an idiot."
Use winesop when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Winesop means A piece of bread soaked in wine; a small cake made with grapes or wine..
Common synonyms include alcoholic, souse, suck-pint.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
His wife gave her a winesop to eat and after, undressing her, put her to bed; and they contrived that night to have her and her maid carried to Florence.
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