i Register
In some senses, sup is marked as slang, informal, colloquial. Watch for register when choosing this word.
verb
To sip; to take a small amount of food or drink into the mouth, especially with a spoon.
There I'll sup / Balm and nectar in my cup.
We stood upon the forehead of the hills, / And lifted up our hearts in prayer; / And as we halted, reverent, / Meseemed that Nature o’er us bent, / That she did bid us sup / From bread she gave and from her cup.
noun
A sip; a small amount, of food or drink, water or rain.
Is it stoppin' there you'd be till every sup of the say's dhrained out on us to beyant the King Pharaoh's Islands?
“Then, who,” the sick man meekly said, / “Shall heal the sick and hide the dead?— / “Snatch the despairer’s poisoned cup; / Clothe shame, and give the outcast sup?— / “Lighten, if only by a hair, / The load of human pain and care?”
verb
To eat supper.
...I propose we should have up the cold pie, and let him sup.
I pray you, be seated and sup how you please. You will, I trust, excuse me that I do not join you; but I have dined already, and I do not sup.