"soppy" meaning in English

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Adjective

IPA: /ˈsɒpi/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-soppy.wav [Southern-England] Forms: soppier [comparative], soppiest [superlative]
Rhymes: -ɒpi Etymology: From sop + -y. In sense 2, unrelated etymologically to sappy (“excessively emotional”). Etymology templates: {{af|en|sop|-y}} sop + -y, {{senseno|en|sentimental}} sense 2 Head templates: {{en-adj|er}} soppy (comparative soppier, superlative soppiest)
  1. Very wet; sodden, soaked. Translations (very wet): promáčený (Czech), promáčený skrz naskrz (Czech)
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  2. (figurative, informal) Overly sentimental, maudlin, schmaltzy. Tags: figuratively, informal Translations (sentimental): сладникаво сантиментален (sladnikavo santimentalen) (Bulgarian), sentimentální (Czech), limonádový (Czech), afektema (Esperanto), mièvre (French), σαχλός (sachlós) (Greek), sentimental [masculine] (Romanian), emoționant [masculine] (Romanian), sentimentaloide (Spanish), muy sentimental (Spanish), sensiblero (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-soppy-en-adj-en:sentimental Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -y, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Terms with Arabic translations, Terms with Bulgarian translations, Terms with Czech translations, Terms with Esperanto translations, Terms with French translations, Terms with Greek translations, Terms with Romanian translations, Terms with Spanish translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 48 52 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -y: 46 54 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 32 68 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 52 48 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 52 48 Disambiguation of Terms with Arabic translations: 49 51 Disambiguation of Terms with Bulgarian translations: 48 52 Disambiguation of Terms with Czech translations: 44 56 Disambiguation of Terms with Esperanto translations: 49 51 Disambiguation of Terms with French translations: 43 57 Disambiguation of Terms with Greek translations: 41 59 Disambiguation of Terms with Romanian translations: 48 52 Disambiguation of Terms with Spanish translations: 45 55 Synonyms: mushy, sappy, treacly, bathetic, cheesy, squishy, corny, drippy, gooey [figuratively], hokey [US, informal], icky, kitsch, kitschy, maudlin, mawkish, mushy, overemotional, oversentimental, overwrought, sappy [US, figuratively], schmaltzy, sickly sweet, slushy, soppy [UK, figuratively], soupy, syrupy [figuratively], treacly [figuratively] Disambiguation of 'sentimental': 5 95
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: soppily, soppiness, unsoppy

Inflected forms

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          "text": "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.",
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          "text": "'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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          "word": "bewatered"
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          "source": "Thesaurus:wet",
          "word": "dripping"
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          "source": "Thesaurus:wet",
          "word": "drunk"
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          "word": "humid"
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        {
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            "archaic",
            "poetic"
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          "word": "irriguous"
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          "source": "Thesaurus:wet",
          "tags": [
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          "word": "madid"
        },
        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:wet",
          "word": "moist"
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          "source": "Thesaurus:wet",
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          "word": "overwatered"
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          "word": "plashy"
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          "word": "saturated"
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        {
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        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:wet",
          "word": "spewy"
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          "source": "Thesaurus:wet",
          "word": "spongy"
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        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:wet",
          "tags": [
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          "word": "squidgy"
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          "word": "thoan"
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          "word": "thone"
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          "word": "undried"
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          "ref": "1920, F. Scott Fitzgerald, chapter 4, in This Side of Paradise, volume 1:",
          "text": "\"[…] 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.\"",
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          "word": "bathetic"
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        {
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          "word": "cheesy"
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          "source": "Thesaurus:mawkish",
          "word": "squishy"
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          "word": "drippy"
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          "word": "kitsch"
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          "source": "Thesaurus:mawkish",
          "word": "overemotional"
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          "word": "overwrought"
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        {
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          "word": "schmaltzy"
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        {
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          "word": "sickly sweet"
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          "tags": [
            "figuratively"
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          "word": "syrupy"
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      "ipa": "/ˈsɒpi/"
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    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "lang_code": "cs",
      "sense": "very wet",
      "word": "promáčený"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "lang_code": "cs",
      "sense": "very wet",
      "word": "promáčený skrz naskrz"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
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      "roman": "sladnikavo santimentalen",
      "sense": "sentimental",
      "word": "сладникаво сантиментален"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
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      "sense": "sentimental",
      "word": "sentimentální"
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    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
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      "sense": "sentimental",
      "word": "limonádový"
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    {
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      "lang_code": "eo",
      "sense": "sentimental",
      "word": "afektema"
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    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "lang_code": "fr",
      "sense": "sentimental",
      "word": "mièvre"
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    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
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      "roman": "sachlós",
      "sense": "sentimental",
      "word": "σαχλός"
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      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
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      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
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      "sense": "sentimental",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
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      "word": "emoționant"
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    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "lang_code": "es",
      "sense": "sentimental",
      "word": "sentimentaloide"
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    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "lang_code": "es",
      "sense": "sentimental",
      "word": "muy sentimental"
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      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "lang_code": "es",
      "sense": "sentimental",
      "word": "sensiblero"
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  ],
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}

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