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soapie en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• (Australia) audio

Etymology

From soap + -ie (“diminutive suffix”).

Meanings

1. (Australia, New-Zealand, South-Africa, informal) A soap opera.
   • 1988, Gunther Kress, Communication and Culture, New South Wales University Press, page 177, The conventions include […] impossibly complicated interrelationships (most characters in soapies are either related or married or have slept together, and in celebrated instances, all three).
   • CHANNEL 7 has censored a lesbian kissing scene in its popular family soapie Home and Away after a viewer backlash. 2009 March 28, Amanda Meade, “Seven censors lesbian kiss”, in Herald Sun, archived from the original on 31 Mar 2009:
   • In terms of its general mood, the average Australian soapie, in comparison with the American soap, is less intense, less subjective, and certainly a good deal less angst-ridden. 1994, Gaile McGregor, EcCentric Visions: Re Constructing Australia, page 187:

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soap