soppy
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 12
- Words With Friends
- 13
- Letters
- 5
/ˈsɒpi/
Definition of soppy
2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included
adj
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Very wet; sodden, soaked.
“Yarmouth […] looked rather spongy and soppy, I thought, as I carried my eye over the great dull waste that lay across the river; and I could not help wondering, if the world were really as round as my geography book said, how any part of it came to be so flat.”
“'Goodness me!' said I to myself, 'whatever will become of sister's white satin shoes, if she has to walk about on soppy grass after such rain as this?'”
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adj
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Very wet; sodden, soaked.
“Yarmouth […] looked rather spongy and soppy, I thought, as I carried my eye over the great dull waste that lay across the river; and I could not help wondering, if the world were really as round as my geography book said, how any part of it came to be so flat.”
“'Goodness me!' said I to myself, 'whatever will become of sister's white satin shoes, if she has to walk about on soppy grass after such rain as this?'”
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(figuratively, informal)Overly sentimental, maudlin, schmaltzy.
“Listen, those men will only turn soppy and puppy-dog eyed as soon as your turn to leave.”
“"[…] It's unfortunate, if I happen to look like what pleased some soppy old Greek sculptor, but I assure you that if it weren't for my face I'd be a quiet nun in the convent without"—then she broke into a run and her raised voice floated back to him as he followed—"my precious babies, which I must go back and see."”
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From sop + y. In sense 2, unrelated etymologically to sappy (“excessively emotional”).
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