soppy en · ADJ
Pronunciation
- /ˈsɒpi/
- (Southern-England) audio
Etymology
From sop + -y. In sense 2, unrelated etymologically to sappy (“excessively emotional”).
Meanings
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Very wet; sodden, soaked.
'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?'
1865, Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, Wives and Daughters, Chapter I: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.
1849 May – 1850 November, Charles Dickens, The Personal History of David Copperfield, London: Bradbury & Evans, […], published 1850, →OCLC:
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(figuratively, informal) Overly sentimental, maudlin, schmaltzy.
"[…] 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."
1920, F. Scott Fitzgerald, chapter 4, in This Side of Paradise, volume 1:Listen, those men will only turn soppy and puppy-dog eyed as soon as your turn to leave.
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| soppier | Degree=Cmp | lexicographic | |
| soppiest | Degree=Sup | lexicographic |
Deriveds
Descendants
Synonyms
wetter than an otter's pocket · hokey · bewatered · damp · wet · saturated · maudlin · soppy · squidgy · irriguous · mushy · overemotional · cheesy · syrupy · drunk · kitsch · slushy · oversentimental · sodden · spewy · plashy · madid · humid · bathetic · thoan · sickly sweet · icky · drenched · squishy · waterlogged · watery · waterlogged · moisty · overwatered · dripping · drippy · undried · soggy · sappy · mushy · moist · thone · watered · gooey · soupy · treacly · soggy · soppy · drenched · sappy · wiery · corny · spongy · overwrought · kitschy · schmaltzy · soaked · treacly · mawkish
Translations (13)
cs promáčený skrz naskrz (very wet) · ro emoționant (sentimental) · ro sentimental (sentimental) · es sensiblero (sentimental) · bg сладникаво сантиментален (sentimental) · es muy sentimental (sentimental) · cs sentimentální (sentimental) · eo afektema (sentimental) · es sentimentaloide (sentimental) · cs limonádový (sentimental) · fr mièvre (sentimental) · cs promáčený (very wet) · el σαχλός (sentimental)