sudsyadj.
/ˈsʌdzi/, U.S. /ˈsədzi/ U.S.
Consisting of, full of, or characterized by soap-suds. Also transferred and figurative.
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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > washing > washing agents > [adjective] > soap and water
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1866 Harper's Mag. Sept. 544/2 He's gone! across the sudzy sea.
1884 Harper's Mag. Sept. 528/2 Washers..laving their linen in the sudsy stream.
1891 Advance (Chicago) 5 Nov. The steaming, sudsy tub.
1901 Munsey's Mag. 25 441/2 A pleasant, sudsy cleanliness about the two little rooms.
1980 Times Lit. Suppl. 17 Oct. 1160/1 Thanks to Arianna Stassinopoulos's votive ministrations, Maria Callas has graduated from opera to the sudsier, sublimer realm of soap opera.
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