Sop

[Slava]

From onelook.com:

▸ noun: a concession given to mollify or placate ("The offer was a sop to my feelings")
▸ noun: piece of solid food for dipping in a liquid
▸ noun: a prescribed procedure to be followed routinely
▸ verb: give a conciliatory gift or bribe to
▸ verb: become thoroughly soaked or saturated with liquid
▸ verb: mop so as to leave a semi-dry surface
▸ verb: dip into liquid ("Sop bread into the sauce")
▸ verb: be or become thoroughly soaked or saturated with a liquid
▸ verb: cover with liquid; pour liquid onto
▸ adjective: conforming to truth
▸ adjective: marked by system; in good order

From etymonline.com

O.E. sopp- "bread soaked in some liquid," (in soppcuppe "cup into which sops are put"), from P.Gmc. *suppo, related to O.E. verb suppan (see sup (2)), probably reinforced by O.Fr. soupe (see soup (n.)). Meaning "something given to appease" is from 1665, an allusion to the sop given by the Sibyl to Cerberus in Virgil's "Aeneid."

[Stargzer]

Being caught in a rainstorm without a raincoat or an umbrella leaves one "soaking, sopping wet."

Rather than crying over spilt milk one should sop it up with a paper towel, or as my mother would have said, "a Turkish towel." ("Quick! Get me a Turkish Towel!" We usually grabbed any towel handy in the bathroom, picking a hand towel if one was available and the spill wasn't too big.)