soppyadj.

Brit.

/ˈsɒpi/, U.S.

/ˈsɑpi/

Etymology: < sop n.¹ or sop v. + -y suffix¹.

†1. Full of or containing sops. Obsolete. rare.Apparently only attested in dictionaries or glossaries.

ΚΠ

1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Offeux,..Soppie; or full of lumpes, or gobbets.

2. Soaked or saturated with water or rain; soft or thoroughly wet with moisture; drenched, sodden.

a. Of land, grass, etc.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > liquid > condition of being or making wet > condition of being or making very wet > [adjective]

thorough wetOE

drunk1382

drunkenc1420

uliginosec1440

dung wetc1450

drookeda1522

wet through, to the skin1526

sogginga1552

washed1557

washy1566

muck-wet1567

wringing wet1570

drenched1589

dropsy1605

ydrenched1610

sobby1611

dropsieda1616

slocken1643

uliginous1650

dabbling1661

sodded1661

sobbing1664

sobbed1693

flashy1702

saturated1728

saturate1785

livereda1796

sappy1806

laving1812

sodden1820

sopped1822

soppy1823

soaked1829

dropsical1845

soddened1845

soaking wet1847

soggya1852

sogged1860

soaking1864

sopping1866

soaken1898

astream1929

1823 E. Moor Suffolk Words 376 Soppy, wet, boggy, swampy; applied to land.

1849 C. Dickens David Copperfield (1850) iii. 21 It [Yarmouth] looked rather spongey and soppy, I thought, as I carried my eye over the great dull waste.

1888 A. Jessopp Coming of Friars v. 211 The level of the street..is in some cases five or six feet below the soppy sod..within the old enclosures.

b. Of things.

ΚΠ

1859 R. F. Burton in Jrnl. Royal Geogr. Soc. 29 78 Clothes feel limp and damp, paper—soft and soppy by the loss of glazing—acts as a blotter.

1892 ‘H. S. Merriman’ Slave of Lamp xix His..dress-clothes were clinging to him with a soppy hindrance.

3. Of the season or weather: Very wet or rainy.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > wet weather > [adjective] > wet (of weather, place, or time)

wetc893

moista1398

waterya1398

moistya1500

waterish1545

washy1566

rotten1567

slabby1653

weety1658

late1673

fresh1790

slottery1790

soft1812

givey1829

juicy1837

sploshy1838

sposhy1842

slip-sloppya1845

splishy-splashyc1850

shabby1853

soppy1872

sappy1885

1872 R. Heath in Golden Hours Jan. 22 May be..; as it's been so soppy, there'll be some [trout] catched to-day.

1891 Cent. Dict. (at cited word) A soppy day.

4. Sloppy, slovenly.

ΚΠ

1899 Daily News 12 Jan. 2/1 They may learn the fact, not in any of your foolish, soppy, theoretical ways, but in a hard, practical manner.

5. Full of mawkish sentiment; foolishly affectionate; inane, indulgent; occasionally used affectionately. Also to be soppy on, to be infatuated with (a person). colloquial.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > aspects of emotion > sentimentality > [adjective]

sugary1591

maudlina1631

mawkish1702

sickly1766

emetic1770

mawky1773

pamby1820

sentimental1823

saccharine1841

sticky1841

mushy1848

sentimentalizing1856

Christmas card1860

maumish1866

slobbery1875

namby-pamby1883

sloppy1883

slushy1889

sentimentalistic1904

marshmallowy1907

hearts and flowers1911

slobby1913

soppy1918

meltyc1921

lavender1928

saccharescent1930

schmaltzya1934

sloshy1933

gooey1935

icky1938

cheesy1943

drippy1952

soupy1953

squishy1953

saccharined1962

gloopy1965

yechy1969

yucky1970

sucky1971

yuck1971

schmoozy1976

the mind > emotion > love > amorous love > be in love or infatuated with [verb (transitive)]

loveOE

paramoura1500

to love with1597

to be sweet on (upon)1740

to be cracked about or on1874

to be stuck on1878

mash1881

to be shook on1888

to go dingy on1904

to fall for ——1906

lurve1908

to have or get a crush on1913

to be soppy on1918

to have a pash for (or on)1922

to have a case on1928

to be queer for1941

the mind > emotion > love > tenderness > [adjective] > full of mawkish sentiment

soppy1918

sloppy1919

sappy1928

1918 H. G. Wells Joan & Peter xi. 369 What Joan knew surely to be lovely, Highmorton denounced as ‘soppy’. ‘Soppy’ was a terrible word in boys' schools and girls' schools alike, a flail for all romance.

1920 H. G. Hibbert Playgoer's Mem. xxxi. 257 The music halls were filled up with the precipitated baseness of pantomime—the puns, the ‘unprincipalled’ boy, the soppy-sentimental heroine.

1923 C. Mackenzie Parson's Progress x. 121 Everyone will be singing for ever and ever and waving palms and playing harps and all that... I reckon Heaven's soppy, I do.

1929 H. Williamson Beautiful Years xx. 139 ‘Isn't fair, is it, man?’ ‘Hush, don't let 'em hear us. They'll think us soppy.’

1930 ‘E. Bramah’ Little Flutter xix. 218 I may as well make up my mind that I'm soppy on the blighter.

1935 ‘G. Ingram’ Cockney Cavalcade iv. 55 A kid like that ought not to talk about love at her age, the soppy little date.

1959 I. Opie & P. Opie Lore & Lang. Schoolchildren iii. 45 They say to him ‘You're a soppy date.’

1961 Daily Tel. 2 Dec. 1/5 Lord Parker, Lord Chief Justice, said yesterday he deplored the tendency towards ‘soppy and sentimental’ treatment of children in juvenile courts.

1974 J. Cooper Women & Super Women 16 Being photographed for the Tatler with a soppy expression on her face.

1977 New Yorker 8 Aug. 11/1 Side benefits include a Chinese Legionnaire who sings soppy Irish ballads.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	soppy
释义	soppyadj. Brit. /ˈsɒpi/, U.S. /ˈsɑpi/ Etymology: < sop n.¹ or sop v. + -y suffix¹. †1. Full of or containing sops. Obsolete. rare.Apparently only attested in dictionaries or glossaries. ΚΠ 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Offeux,..Soppie; or full of lumpes, or gobbets. 2. Soaked or saturated with water or rain; soft or thoroughly wet with moisture; drenched, sodden. a. Of land, grass, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > liquid > condition of being or making wet > condition of being or making very wet > [adjective] thorough wetOE drunk1382 drunkenc1420 uliginosec1440 dung wetc1450 drookeda1522 wet through, to the skin1526 sogginga1552 washed1557 washy1566 muck-wet1567 wringing wet1570 drenched1589 dropsy1605 ydrenched1610 sobby1611 dropsieda1616 slocken1643 uliginous1650 dabbling1661 sodded1661 sobbing1664 sobbed1693 flashy1702 saturated1728 saturate1785 livereda1796 sappy1806 laving1812 sodden1820 sopped1822 soppy1823 soaked1829 dropsical1845 soddened1845 soaking wet1847 soggya1852 sogged1860 soaking1864 sopping1866 soaken1898 astream1929 1823 E. Moor Suffolk Words 376 Soppy, wet, boggy, swampy; applied to land. 1849 C. Dickens David Copperfield (1850) iii. 21 It [Yarmouth] looked rather spongey and soppy, I thought, as I carried my eye over the great dull waste. 1888 A. Jessopp Coming of Friars v. 211 The level of the street..is in some cases five or six feet below the soppy sod..within the old enclosures. b. Of things. ΚΠ 1859 R. F. Burton in Jrnl. Royal Geogr. Soc. 29 78 Clothes feel limp and damp, paper—soft and soppy by the loss of glazing—acts as a blotter. 1892 ‘H. S. Merriman’ Slave of Lamp xix His..dress-clothes were clinging to him with a soppy hindrance. 3. Of the season or weather: Very wet or rainy. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > wet weather > [adjective] > wet (of weather, place, or time) wetc893 moista1398 waterya1398 moistya1500 waterish1545 washy1566 rotten1567 slabby1653 weety1658 late1673 fresh1790 slottery1790 soft1812 givey1829 juicy1837 sploshy1838 sposhy1842 slip-sloppya1845 splishy-splashyc1850 shabby1853 soppy1872 sappy1885 1872 R. Heath in Golden Hours Jan. 22 May be..; as it's been so soppy, there'll be some [trout] catched to-day. 1891 Cent. Dict. (at cited word) A soppy day. 4. Sloppy, slovenly. ΚΠ 1899 Daily News 12 Jan. 2/1 They may learn the fact, not in any of your foolish, soppy, theoretical ways, but in a hard, practical manner. 5. Full of mawkish sentiment; foolishly affectionate; inane, indulgent; occasionally used affectionately. Also to be soppy on, to be infatuated with (a person). colloquial. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > aspects of emotion > sentimentality > [adjective] sugary1591 maudlina1631 mawkish1702 sickly1766 emetic1770 mawky1773 pamby1820 sentimental1823 saccharine1841 sticky1841 mushy1848 sentimentalizing1856 Christmas card1860 maumish1866 slobbery1875 namby-pamby1883 sloppy1883 slushy1889 sentimentalistic1904 marshmallowy1907 hearts and flowers1911 slobby1913 soppy1918 meltyc1921 lavender1928 saccharescent1930 schmaltzya1934 sloshy1933 gooey1935 icky1938 cheesy1943 drippy1952 soupy1953 squishy1953 saccharined1962 gloopy1965 yechy1969 yucky1970 sucky1971 yuck1971 schmoozy1976 the mind > emotion > love > amorous love > be in love or infatuated with [verb (transitive)] loveOE paramoura1500 to love with1597 to be sweet on (upon)1740 to be cracked about or on1874 to be stuck on1878 mash1881 to be shook on1888 to go dingy on1904 to fall for ——1906 lurve1908 to have or get a crush on1913 to be soppy on1918 to have a pash for (or on)1922 to have a case on1928 to be queer for1941 the mind > emotion > love > tenderness > [adjective] > full of mawkish sentiment soppy1918 sloppy1919 sappy1928 1918 H. G. Wells Joan & Peter xi. 369 What Joan knew surely to be lovely, Highmorton denounced as ‘soppy’. ‘Soppy’ was a terrible word in boys' schools and girls' schools alike, a flail for all romance. 1920 H. G. Hibbert Playgoer's Mem. xxxi. 257 The music halls were filled up with the precipitated baseness of pantomime—the puns, the ‘unprincipalled’ boy, the soppy-sentimental heroine. 1923 C. Mackenzie Parson's Progress x. 121 Everyone will be singing for ever and ever and waving palms and playing harps and all that... I reckon Heaven's soppy, I do. 1929 H. Williamson Beautiful Years xx. 139 ‘Isn't fair, is it, man?’ ‘Hush, don't let 'em hear us. They'll think us soppy.’ 1930 ‘E. Bramah’ Little Flutter xix. 218 I may as well make up my mind that I'm soppy on the blighter. 1935 ‘G. Ingram’ Cockney Cavalcade iv. 55 A kid like that ought not to talk about love at her age, the soppy little date. 1959 I. Opie & P. Opie Lore & Lang. Schoolchildren iii. 45 They say to him ‘You're a soppy date.’ 1961 Daily Tel. 2 Dec. 1/5 Lord Parker, Lord Chief Justice, said yesterday he deplored the tendency towards ‘soppy and sentimental’ treatment of children in juvenile courts. 1974 J. Cooper Women & Super Women 16 Being photographed for the Tatler with a soppy expression on her face. 1977 New Yorker 8 Aug. 11/1 Side benefits include a Chinese Legionnaire who sings soppy Irish ballads. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < adj.1611
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