Soppy

/ˈsɒpi/ · adjective

Meaning

Very wet; sodden, soaked..

Definitions by Sense

1. Very wet; sodden, soaked.
2. (figurative, informal) Overly sentimental, maudlin, schmaltzy.

Example Sentences

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 geography book said, how any part of it came to be so flat.

'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?'

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 into a run and her raised voice floated back to him as he followed—"my precious babies, which I must go back and see."

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• soppier
• soppiest

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