Sopping means soaked completely through. Sopping wet, a sopping coat, sopping through.
It nearly always appears as sopping wet, which is emphatic rather than redundant — sopping already means wet, and the pair is fixed by habit. It comes from sop, a piece of bread dipped in liquid, which is the oldest sense of the word.
1adjectivesoppingSoaked completely through.
“I forgot my umbrella and arrived at work sopping wet.”
sopping is a quality of wetness.
Also accepted in games: sodden
Proto-Germanic
*supô
Old English
sopa — sopped bread
Middle English
sop
English
sop
English, today
sopping
Built from
sop comes from Middle English sop, soppe, sope, from Old English sopa (“sopped bread”), from Proto-Germanic supô (compare Dutch sop, Old High German sopfa), deverbative of sūpaną (“to sup”). a doublet of soup; more at sup.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA
Practised in A Song of Ice and Fire