soppy

English

Etymology

sop +‎ y

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɒpi/

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Adjective

soppy (comparative soppier, superlative soppiest)

1. Very wet; sodden, soaked.
   • 1849 May – 1850 November, Charles Dickens, The Personal History of David Copperfield, London: Bradbury & Evans, […], published 1850, →OCLC:

     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.

   • 1865, Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, Wives and Daughters, Chapter I:

     '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?'

2. (figurative) Overly sentimental, maudlin, schmaltzy.
   • 1920, F. Scott Fitzgerald, chapter 4, in This Side of Paradise, volume 1:

     " […] 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."

Derived terms

• soppily
• soppiness

Translations

very wet

• Czech: promáčený, promáčený skrz naskrz

sentimental

• Bulgarian: сладникаво сантиментален (sladnikavo santimentalen)
• Czech: sentimentální, limonádový (cs)
• Esperanto: afektema
• French: mièvre (fr)
• Greek: σαχλός (el) (sachlós)
• Romanian: sentimental (ro) m, emoționant (ro) m
• Spanish: sentimentaloide, muy sentimental, sensiblero

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• Arabic: ^{(please verify)} مُفْرِط فِي العَاطِفِيَّة (mufriṭ fī l-ʕāṭifiyya), ^{(please verify)} صِبْيَانِيّ (ṣibyāniyy)

Anagrams

• Yopps, popsy, psyop