Word Study
soppy
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective soppy has 2 senses
- soppy(s = adj.all) sodden - wet through and through; thoroughly wet; "stood at the door drenched (or soaked) by the rain"; "the speaker's sodden collar"; "soppy clothes"
- soppy(s = adj.all) bathetic, drippy, hokey, kitschy, maudlin, mawkish, mushy, schmaltzy, schmalzy, sentimental, slushy, soupy - effusively or insincerely emotional; "a bathetic novel"; "maudlin expressions of sympathy"; "mushy effusiveness"; "a schmaltzy song"; "sentimental soap operas"; "slushy poetry"
CIDE DICTIONARY
soppy, a.
Soaked or saturated with liquid or moisture; very wet or sloppy. [1913 Webster]
"It [Yarmouth] looked rather spongy and soppy."
[1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
soppy, adj. (soppier, soppiest)
1 Brit. colloq. a silly or foolish in a feeble or self-indulgent way. b mawkishly sentimental.
2 Brit. colloq. (foll. by on) foolishly infatuated with.
3 soaked with water.
1 Brit. colloq. a silly or foolish in a feeble or self-indulgent way. b mawkishly sentimental.
2 Brit. colloq. (foll. by on) foolishly infatuated with.
3 soaked with water.
Derivative
soppily adv. soppiness n.
Etymology
SOP + -Y(1)
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