Lexic.us

Definition of Soapy

1. Adjective. Resembling or having the qualities of soap. "A soapy consistency"

2. Adjective. Unpleasantly and excessively suave or ingratiating in manner or speech. "Soapy compliments"

Definition of Soapy

1. a. Resembling soap; having the qualities of, or feeling like, soap; soft and smooth.

Definition of Soapy

1. Adjective. resembling soap ¹

2. Adjective. resembling a soap opera ¹

3. Adjective. full of soap ¹

4. Adjective. covered in soap ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Soapy

1. containing or resembling soap [adj SOAPIER, SOAPIEST]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Soapy

soaps soapstar soapstock soapstocks soapstone soapstones soapsuds soapsuds enema soapsudsy soapweed

soapwood soapwoods soapwort soapwort gentian soapworts soapy (current term) soapy warm soaks soar soar up soar upwards

soaraway soare soared soarer soarers soares soaring soaringly soarings soars

Literary usage of Soapy

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Roughing It by Mark Twain (2001)
"He ran round and round in a circle, and pawed RATHER soapy. A BARK UNDER FULL SAIL. the earth and clawed the air, ..."

2. St. Nicholas by Mary Mapes Dodge (1899)
"the inside of the dinner-plate with soapy water about one eighth of an inch ... If the soapy mixture is of the right consistency, they will unite in one ..."

3. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"A similar set of verifications was afforded by the use of films of soapy water. Such films are so thin and light that their weight hardly distorts them at ..."

4. Chemical Technology; Or, Chemistry in Its Applications to the Arts and by Edmund Ronalds, Thomas Richardson, Henry Watts, Friedrich Ludwig Knapp (1863)
"AP Rochette prepares hard soap by combining caustic soda, •without boiling, with the fatty or oily matters obtained from suds and soapy waters, ..."

5. Smith of Bear City: And Other Frontier Sketches by George Tower Buffum (1906)
"... soapy Smith I HAVE never known just where to pigeonhole soapy Smith; a Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde he certainly was. Meet him away from home, and what do we ..."

6. The Definite Object: A Romance of New York by Jeffery Farnol (1917)
"Then soapy spoke. " Hello, Kid! " Ensued a moment of tense silence, ... That'— that you, soapy? " " 'S right, Kid! " "What you — doin' around — here? ..."

7. Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town by Cory Doctorow (2006)
"He went into the kitchen and filled a bucket with soapy water and gathered up an armload of rags from the rag bag. Methodically, he cleaned away the mud. ..."

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