different between soap vs noodle

English

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /so?p/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /s??p/
• Rhymes: -??p

Etymology 1

From Middle English sope, sape, from Old English s?pe (“soap, salve”), from Proto-West Germanic *saip?, from Proto-Germanic *saip?, from Proto-Indo-European *seyb-, *seyp- (“to pour out, drip, trickle, strain”).

Cognate with Scots saip, sape (“soap”), Saterland Frisian Seepe (“soap”), West Frisian sjippe (“soap”), Dutch zeep (“soap”), German Low German Seep (“soap”), German Seife (“soap”), Danish sæbe (“soap”), Swedish såpa (“soap”), Norwegian Bokmål såpe (“soap”), Norwegian Nynorsk såpe (“soap”), Faroese sápa (“soap”), Icelandic sápa (“soap”). Related also to Old English s?p (“amber, resin, pomade, unguent”), Latin s?bum (“tallow, fat, grease”). See seep. Latin s?p? (“soap”) is a borrowing from the Germanic.

Noun

soap (countable and uncountable, plural soaps)

1. (countable, uncountable) A substance able to mix with both oil and water, used for cleaning, often in the form of a solid bar (bar soap) or in liquid form (liquid soap), derived from fats or made synthetically.

2. (chemistry) A metallic salt derived from a fatty acid
3. Flattery or excessively complacent conversation.

4. (slang) Money, specially when used as a bribe.
5. (countable, informal) A soap opera.
6. (countable) A solid masonry unit or brick reduced in depth or height from standard dimensions.

Alternative forms

• sope (obsolete)

Derived terms

Descendants

Translations

See also

• body wash
• shampoo
• shower gel
• wash-ball

References

• The Free Dictionary definitions from various other dictionaries
• Soaping Masonry

Verb

soap (third-person singular simple present soaps, present participle soaping, simple past and past participle soaped)

1. (transitive) To apply soap to in washing.

2. (transitive, informal) To cover, lather or in any other form treat with soap, often as a prank.

3. (transitive, informal) To be discreet about (a topic).
4. (slang, dated) To flatter; to wheedle.

Synonyms

• (to be discreet about): soft soap, sugar soap, soft-pedal, downplay

Translations

Related terms

• soaper
• saponification

See also

• soap on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Etymology 2

Noun

soap (uncountable)

1. (slang) sodium pentothal
   • 2013, John Gardner, James Bond: The John Gardner Years

     'Time? Doesn't have much meaning when they're trying to dry you out. I rather think they gave me a shot of soap at one point.' Soap is intelligence speak for sodium pentathol.

Anagrams

• AOPs, AOSP, OAPs, OSAP, PAOs, Paos, Paso, SOPA, Sapo, poas, sapo-

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English soap. Doublet of zeep.

Pronunciation

Noun

soap f (plural soaps, diminutive soapje n)

1. soap opera, soap

Anagrams

• opa's

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English soap.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sop/

Noun

soap m (plural soaps)

1. soap opera, soap

Anagrams

• posa

English

Etymology

Its early plural form noodlejees suggests a Dutch origin; from Dutch noedel (“noodle”), from German Nudel (“piece of pasta, noodle”), of uncertain origin. Perhaps from an alteration of German Knödel (“dumpling”), from German Knoten (“knot”) or from Latin minutulus (“very small, tiny”) in the sense of "to chop (food) into small pieces" or Latin nodulus (“little knot”). The senses "fool" and "brain, head" are probably unrelated.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /nu?dl?/
• Rhymes: -u?d?l

Noun

noodle (plural noodles)

1. (usually in the plural) a string or strip of pasta

2. (colloquial, dated) a person with poor judgement; a fool
   • 1839, Sydney Smith, The Works of Sydney Smith : Preface

     the chuckling grin of noodles

   • 1854, Charles Dickens, Hard Times

     If that portrait could speak, sir — but it has the advantage over the original of not possessing the power of committing itself and disgusting others, — it would testify, that a long period has elapsed since I first habitually addressed it as the picture of a noodle.

3. (colloquial) the brain, the head
4. (colloquial) a pool noodle

Usage notes

In British English, noodle is chiefly used to describe Asian-style products comprising long, thin strands of dough. In American English, noodle can also refer to a range of European-style products which in British English would only be referred to as pasta.

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:noodle.

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• pasta
• noddle
• Thesaurus:noodle

Verb

noodle (third-person singular simple present noodles, present participle noodling, simple past and past participle noodled)

1. To think or ponder.

2. To fiddle, play with, or mess around.

3. To improvise music.
4. (fishing) To fish (usually for very large catfish) without any equipment other than the fisherman's own body

6. (Australia) To fossick, especially for opals.
   • 1989, Association for Industrial Archaeology, Industrial archaeology review, Volume 12,

     On the Olympic Field the tour-group is permitted to ‘noodle’ (hunt for opals) on the waste or mullock heaps ...

   • 2006, Marele Day, Susan Bradley Smith, Fay Knight (editors), Making Waves: 10 Years of the Byron Bay Writers Festival ,

     We learn how Lennon used to noodle (fossick) for opal as a kid, how camels were for a long time the only form of transportation, and where the name 'Coober Pedy' came from.

Synonyms

• (fishing): guddle

Derived terms

• noodler

References

Anagrams

• Old One

Spanish

Noun

noodle m (plural noodles)

1. noodle (food)