Soapy

//ˈsoʊpi// adj, noun

adj, noun ·Moderate ·College level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    An erotic massage that involves lots of soap and body contact.
Adjective
  1. 1
    Literal senses:; Resembling soap.

    "Bases dissolve skin oils and have a soapy feel to them."

  2. 2
    Literal senses:; Full of soap.

    "Near-synonym: soaped up"

  3. 3
    Literal senses:; Covered in soap.

    "His skin was still soapy after the shower."

  4. 4
    Resembling a soap opera.

    "The heightened worlds of darkly comedic satire and soapy high-school romance make it easy enough to roll with unrealistic casting choices—and that goes for stage musicals, too, where some level of artifice is built into the format."

  5. 5
    Committing or involving flattery. dated
Adjective
  1. 1
    unpleasantly and excessively suave or ingratiating in manner or speech wordnet
  2. 2
    resembling or having the qualities of soap wordnet

Synonyms

All synonyms
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Example

More examples

"Wash the shirt in soapy water and the stains will come out."

Etymology

From soap + -y. Compare German Low German sepig (“soapy”), German seifig (“soapy”), Swedish såpig (“soapy”).

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soap opera

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