/ˈsɒpi/
OriginFrom sop + y. In sense 2, unrelated etymologically to sappy (“excessively emotional”).
- Very wet; sodden, soaked.
“Yarmouth […] looked rather spongy and soppy, I thought, as I carried my eye over the great dull waste that lay across the river; and I could not help wondering, if the world were really as round as my”
“'Goodness me!' said I to myself, 'whatever will become of sister's white satin shoes, if she has to walk about on soppy grass after such rain as this?'”
- figuratively, informalOverly sentimental, maudlin, schmaltzy.
“Listen, those men will only turn soppy and puppy-dog eyed as soon as your turn to leave.”
“"[…] It's unfortunate, if I happen to look like what pleased some soppy old Greek sculptor, but I assure you that if it weren't for my face I'd be a quiet nun in the convent without"—then she broke in”
Formssoppier(comparative) · soppiest(superlative)