soppy

sop·py (s

)

adj. sop·pi·er, sop·pi·est

1. Soaked; sopping.

2. Rainy.

3. Sentimental; maudlin.

soppy [ˈsɒpɪ]

adj -pier, -piest

1. wet or soggy

2. Brit informal silly or sentimental

soppily adv

soppiness n

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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" sodden 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" hokey, kitschy, maudlin, mawkish, schmaltzy, schmalzy, bathetic, sentimental, slushy, soupy, mushy, drippy 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) She loves soppy love stories.

Translations

soppy [ˈsɒpɪ] ADJ (soppier (compar) (soppiest (superl)))

1. (= mushy) → sentimentaloide

2. (= foolish) → bobo, tonto

soppy [ˈsɒpi] adj (British) [person,] → fleur bleue inv; [film, book, music] → à l'eau de rose

soppy

adj (Brit inf) (= sentimental) book, song → schmalzig (inf); person → sentimental; look → schmachtend; (= effeminate) → weibisch

soppy [ˈsɒpɪ] adj (-ier (comp) (-iest (superl))) (Brit) (fam) (sentimental) → sdolcinato/a; (silly) → sciocco/a

soppy → مشبع بالماء sladký drivende sentimental rührselig σαχλός sensiblero, sentimentaloide siirappinen mélo sentimentalan svenevole いやにセンチメンタルな 감상적인 kletsnat søkkvåt ckliwy piegas мокрый sentimental มีอารมณ์อ่อนไหวมากเกินไป aşırı duygusal ủy mị 湿透的

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bathetic
drippy
gooey
hokey
kitschy
maudlin
mawkish
mushy
romantic
saccharine
schmaltzy
schmalzy
sentimental
sloppy
slushy
Soaky
sodden
soupy
tender

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.

Rebecca Of Sunnybrook Farm by Wiggin, Kate Douglas View in context

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'.

Typee by Melville, Herman View in context

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.

David Copperfield by Dickens, Charles View in context

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