Sappy

/ˈsæpi/ · adjective

Meaning

(US) Excessively sweet, emotional, nostalgic; cheesy; mushy. (British equivalent: soppy).

Definitions by Sense

1. (US) Excessively sweet, emotional, nostalgic; cheesy; mushy. (British equivalent: soppy)
2. Having (a particularly large amount of) sap.
3. (obsolete) Juicy.
4. (obsolete, of wood) Spongy; Having spaces in which large quantities of sap can flow.
5. (obsolete) Musty; tainted; rancid.

Example Sentences

It was a sappy love song, but it reminded them of their first dance.

He was a good deal of a character, and much better company than the sappy literature he was selling.

To himself, already beginning to resent the new employer as all that morning he had been resenting the old one, Dr. Planish groaned, “He’s getting saintly on me! A careerist in holiness! I'll never be happy till I've got an organization where I’m sole boss—unless it’s one run by a fellow like Colonel Marduc, who has real brains and power—and cash!—and not a lot of sappy sentimentality like Vesper or psychopathic malice like Sneaky Sandy—Oh dear!”

‘Torches are made to light, jewels to wear, Dainties to taste, fresh beauty for the use, Herbs for their smell, and sappy plants to bear: Things growing to themselves are growth’s abuse: Seeds spring from seeds and beauty breedeth beauty; Thou wast begot; to get it is thy duty.

But these, tho’ fed with careful dirt, Are neither green nor sappy; Half-conscious of the garden-squirt, The spindlings look unhappy,

The sappy green twig-tips of the season’s growth would not, she thought, be appreciably woodier on the day she became a wife, so near was the time; the tints of the foliage would hardly have changed.

As always, there was a fizzing, popping blaze of pine and sappy apple logs in the fireplace.

The corridor stinks of sweat and cigarette smoke, and I daringly open the window a little. The freshest air floats in, smelling of sappy grasses, the delicate pollens of wild flowers, the resins of the pine forests; hinting at the chill blue scent of distant snows.

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Word Forms

• sappier
• sappiest
• more sappy
• most sappy
• sapy

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