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soppy

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sop·py  (sp)
adj. sop·pi·er, sop·pi·est
1. Soaked; sopping.
2. Rainy.
3. Sentimental; maudlin. See Synonyms at sentimental.

soppy
Adjective
[-pier, -piest] Informal foolishly sentimental: a soppy love song
soppily adv
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Adj.1.soppy - wet through and through; thoroughly wet; "stood at the door drenched (or soaked) by the rain"; "the speaker's sodden collar"; "soppy clothes"
wet - covered or soaked with a liquid such as water; "a wet bathing suit"; "wet sidewalks"; "wet weather"
2.soppy - effusively or insincerely emotional; "a bathetic novel"; "maudlin expressions of sympathy"; "mushy effusiveness"; "a schmaltzy song"; "sentimental soap operas"; "slushy poetry"
emotional - of more than usual emotion; "his behavior was highly emotional"

soppy
adjective Brit. (informal) sentimental, corny (slang) slushy (informal) soft (informal) silly, daft (informal) weepy (informal) mawkish, drippy (informal) lovey-dovey, schmaltzy (slang) icky (informal) gushy (informal) overemotional, three-hankie (informal)
Translations
Spanish soppy [ˈsɔpɪ] adj (pej) → bobo, tonto
French soppy [ˈsɔpɪ] adj (pej) → sentimental(e)
German soppy [ˈsɔpɪ] (pej) adj (person) → sentimental;
(film) → schmalzig

Italian soppy [ˈsɔpɪ] adj (pej) → sentimentale

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There, we'll hang your soppy hat on the nail, put your jacket over the chair rail, an' then you turn your back to the stove an' dry yourself good.
It is impossible that the inhabitants of such a lovely place as we saw can be anything else but good fellows; and if you choose rather to perish with hunger in one of these soppy caverns, I for one prefer to chance a bold descent into the valley, and risk the consequences'.
It 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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