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Soppy

//ˈsɒpi// adj, slang

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Very wet; sodden, soaked.

    "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."

  2. 2
    Overly sentimental, maudlin, schmaltzy. figuratively, informal

    "Listen, those men will only turn soppy and puppy-dog eyed as soon as your turn to leave."

Adjective
  1. 1
    effusively or insincerely emotional wordnet
  2. 2
    wet through and through; thoroughly wet wordnet

Etymology

From sop + y. In sense 2, unrelated etymologically to sappy (“excessively emotional”).

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