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▪ I. soupy, a.|ˈsuːpɪ|
[f. soup n.]
1. Like soup; having the appearance or consistency of soup.
1869Dickens Uncomm. Trav. (1958) xxxiii. 333 The dirty table-cloths, the stuffy, soupy, airless atmosphere. 1872J. Ingelow Off Skelligs xiv, We had a very thick fog..directly after the thunderstorm—a soupy fog. 1888Jacobi Printers' Vocab. 128 Soupy, a term of disparagement applied to thin or poor ink. 1890Temple Bar Aug. 449 Sybilla is eating or drinking something of a soupy nature. 1895Meredith Amazing Marr. xxxviii, Stir us to the depths, it will be found that we are poor soupy stuff.
2. Sentimental; mawkish.
1953R. Crawshay-Williams Let. 1 Aug. in B. Russell Autobiogr. (1969) III. ii. 92, I was glad to see..your emphasis..upon the role of power politics rather than ideologies—and also your re-emphasis upon the way in which science and scientific method have conditioned (all that is ‘best’ in) Western Values. It is maddening the way in which the opposite ‘soupy’ belief is accepted even by most unsoupy people. 1976National Observer (U.S.) 20 Nov. 24/5 He has included them in the autobiography, along with..a series of sincerely affectionate, if soupy, tributes to Daddy from family and friends. 1977New Yorker 4 July 82/3 There is the silliness of the movie's plangency: hard to feel soupy about a talented couple giving up their love because of the stardust in their eyes.
Hence ˈsoupiness, sentimentality.
1963Wodehouse Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves v. 40 That squashy soupiness of hers, that subtle air she had of being on the point of talking baby-talk. 1977Gramophone Jan. 1153/1 The slow movement brings a hint of soupiness in the tone.
Add: ˈsoupily adv.
1979Washington Post 26 Oct. (Weekend section) 31/1 Richard Gere and Lisa Eichhorn as the soupily romantic Anglo-American couple of films of the period, but with such additional troubles as impotence and doubt. 1985Financial Times 28 Nov. i. 15 Lights go down, storms gather and break outside and Miss York pops some soupily orchestrated Satie, Mahler or an interminable passage of the Korngold Violin Concerto on her expensive hi-fi.
▪ II. soupy, n. U.S. Mil. slang.|ˈsuːpɪ|
Also soupie.
[f. soup n. + -y6, -ie.]
(A summons to) a meal.
1899J. R. Skinner Hist. Fourth Illinois Volunteers 26 Answered the familiar call of ‘soupy, soupy, soupy,’ at 5:30 o'clock. 1918Stars & Stripes 5 July 4, I say ‘Yum yum’ when ‘soupie’ blows. 1939Amer. Speech XIV. 30/2 Soupy, n., mess call (general U.S. Army usage). |