1899 J. R. Skinner Hist. Fourth Illinois Volunteers 26 Answered the familiar call of ‘soupy, soupy, soupy,’ at 5:30 o'clock.

1918 Stars & Stripes 5 July 4 I say ‘Yum yum’ when ‘soupie’ blows.

1939 Amer. Speech 14 30/2 Soupy, n., mess call (general U.S. Army usage).

1869 C. Dickens Uncommerc. Traveller in All Year Round 2 Jan. 109/1 The dirty table-cloths, the stuffy soupy airless atmosphere.

1872 J. Ingelow Off Skelligs xiv We had a very thick fog..directly after the thunderstorm—a soupy fog.

1888 C. T. Jacobi Printers' Vocab. 128 Soupy, a term of disparagement applied to thin or poor ink.

1890 Temple Bar Aug. 449 Sybilla is eating or drinking something of a soupy nature.

1895 G. Meredith Amazing Marriage II. xxxviii. 158 Stir us to the depths, it will be found that we are poor soupy stuff.

1953 R. 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.

1976 National 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.

1977 New 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.

1963 P. G. Wodehouse 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.

1977 Gramophone Jan. 1153/1 The slow movement brings a hint of soupiness in the tone.