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soapy, a.|ˈsəʊpɪ|
Also 7–8 sopy, 9 Sc. saipy.
[f. soap n. + -y. Cf. WFris. sjippich, G. seifig.]
1. Smeared with soap; covered with soap-suds or lather.
1610G. Fletcher Christ's Vict. ii. lix, Such watry orbicles young boyes doe blowe Out from their sopy shells. a1635Randolph Conceited Pedlar Wks. 1875 I. 47 And were't not better to embrace this pretty shambles for beauty..than to tumble our soapy laundresses? 1747–96H. Glasse Cookery xiii. 188 Take great care the bag or cloth be very clean, not soapy. 1840Dickens Old C. Shop vii, The door was opened, but nothing came in except a soapy arm.
transf.1778Pryce Min. Cornub. Gloss., Soapy Heads, the joints of stones, smeared with a saponaceous slippery soil.
2. Impregnated with soap; containing soap in solution.
1721Bailey, Suds, the soapy Liquor in which Clothes are washed. 1826S. Cooper First Lines Surg. (ed. 5) 23 The caustic fixed alkalies, triturated with pus, combine with it into a soapy fluid. 1882Garden 21 Jan. 48/3 The leaves ought to be carefully sponged over with soapy water.
3. Of the nature of soap; having the soft or greasy feel of soap; soap-like.
a1722Lisle Husb. (1757) 26 Their chalk is of a fat soapy kind, and they call it marle. 1799[A. Young] Agric. Linc. 10 They have rich loams, soapy and tenacious. 1815J. Smith Panorama Sci. & Art II. 465 Talc..is soft and soapy to the touch. 1857Miller Elem. Chem., Org. xii. §1. 686 Oleophosphoric Acid,..in combination with soda,..forms a soapy compound.
4. a. Of appearance, feel, etc.: Resembling that of soap; suggestive of soap.
1732Arbuthnot Rules of Diet in Aliments 301 Such Substances as are of a soapy Nature. 1803Med. Jrnl. IX. 493 When boiled in it a long time it gives it a soapy appearance. 1838T. Thomson Chem. Org. Bodies 38 Most of them have a slightly soapy feel. 1843Penny Cycl. XXVI. 261/1 Lustre soapy. Feel greasy. 1852C. W. Hoskyns Talpa i. (1854) 2 A suspicious kind of sound..which I may describe by the word ‘soapy’.
b. Having a taste of soap.
1892Walsh Tea 87 The lower grades are frequently ‘soapy’ or ‘mousey’ in flavor.
5. slang.
a. Ingratiating, suave, unctuous.
1854E. Twisleton Let. 22 June (1928) xi. 202 The Bishop of Oxford I never do like..his manner, when Lords are in presence, richly merits his popular sobriquet of ‘Soapy Sam’. 1865Pall Mall G. 28 Oct. 5 But why..do people call him [Bp. Wilberforce] Soapy Sam? 1910Blackw. Mag. Feb. 182/2 He had once been famous for his soapy manners.
b. Of fits: Simulated by chewing soap.
1886Daily News 13 Dec. 5/4 He is known professionally as the ‘King of the Soapy Fits Trick’.
6. Of style, tone, etc.: smooth, bland, sickly, sentimental.
1889G. B. Shaw in Star 12 Aug. 3/4 Miss Nettie Carpenter played Svendsen's Romance for Violin, and played it very well, though her tone is just a little soapy—if I may be permitted to use such an expression. 1926C. Connolly Let. 1 June in Romantic Friendship (1975) 139 Benson's style is pretty soapy. 1973Publishers Weekly 17 Sept. 59/3 Romance, which gets a bit soapy at times.
7. Comb., as soapy-looking, soapy-mannered, soapy-tailed.
a1845Barham Ingol. Leg. Ser. iii. Wedding Day (1905) 435 Don't interfere with their soapy-tail'd pigs. 1853Ure Dict. Arts, etc. (ed. 4) II. 458 Soapy-looking compounds with resins and wax. 1890Pall Mall G. 8 Apr. 6/3 The solemn soapy-mannered ‘dispenser’.
Add:[6.] b. [After soap n.1 1 h.] Characteristic or redolent of a soap opera. colloq. (orig. U.S.).
1961in Webster. 1980Chicago Tribune 2 July iii. 10/3 (heading) Soapy clones, ‘real’ people tales follow the leaders in prime time. Ibid., If that's not soapy enough for you, ‘Midland Heights’ also has a J.R. Ewing-type villain. 1985Mail on Sunday 6 Jan. 35/4 Anna of the Five Towns..is the sort of gloriously photographed evocation of a classic novel where British television scores over its soapy American counterparts. 1989Newsday 13 Jan. iii. 2/3 Though the script remains sentimental and a little soapy, the writing is witty and smart. |