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Definition of Soppy
1. Adjective. Wet through and through; thoroughly wet. "Soppy clothes"
2. Adjective. Effusively or insincerely emotional. "Slushy poetry"
Similar to: Emotional
Derivative terms: Drippiness, Mawkishness, Mawkishness, Mushiness, Sentiment, Sentimentality
Definition of Soppy
1. a. Soaked or saturated with liquid or moisture; very wet or sloppy.
Definition of Soppy
1. Adjective. Very wet; sodden, soaked ¹
2. Adjective. sentimental, maudlin, bathetic ¹
3. Adjective. (informal) schmaltzy ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Soppy
1. very wet [adj -PIER, -PIEST]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Soppy
Literary usage of Soppy
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Life of Benvenuto Cellini by Benvenuto Cellini, John Addington Symonds (1889)
"Then they lifted me from where I lay, and after shaking up the mattress, which
was now as soppy as a dish of maccaroni, they flung it outside the dungeon. ..."
2. A Glossary of French Slang by Olivier Leroy (1922)
"veau, sb. mr soppy fellow. 2. Ugly or silly woman. veinard, e, adj. Lucky. veine.
i. Sb. J. Luck. Avoir la wine, de la veine, to have good luck, ..."
3. Hakluytus Posthumus, Or, Purchas His Pilgrimes: Contayning a History of the by Samuel Purchas (1905)
"... the Village called soppy ; they were soppy. ... some of those men stayed that
night with us, the next day to bring us to the Road of soppy. ..."
4. The Foundations of a National Drama: A Collection of Lectures, Essays and by Henry Arthur Jones (1913)
"To sum up the last ten dramatic years in one sentence, we may say that we have
passed from the raptures of ardent morbidity in 1894 to the graces of soppy ..."
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