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▪ I. soppy, a.|ˈsɒpɪ|
[f. sop n.1 or v. + -y.]
†1. Full of or containing sops. Obs.—0
1611Cotgr., Offeux,..Soppie; or full of lumpes, or gobbets.
2. Soaked or saturated with water or rain; soft or thoroughly wet with moisture; drenched, sodden.
a. Of land, grass, etc.
1823E. Moor Suffolk Words, Soppy, wet, boggy, swampy; applied to land. 1850Dickens Dav. Copp. iii, It [Yarmouth] looked rather spongey and soppy, I thought, as I carried my eye over the great dull waste. 1889Jessopp Coming of Friars v. 211 The level of the street..is in some cases five or six feet below the soppy sod..within the old enclosures.
b. Of things.
1859R. F. Burton Centr. Afr. in Jrnl. Geogr. Soc. XXIX. 78 Clothes feel limp and damp, paper—soft and soppy by the loss of glazing—acts as a blotter. 1892‘Merriman’ Slave of Lamp xix, His..dress-clothes were clinging to him with a soppy hindrance.
3. Of the season or weather: Very wet or rainy.
1872R. Heath in Golden Hours 22 May be..; as it's been so soppy, there'll be some [trout] catched to-day. 1891Cent. Dict. s.v., A soppy day.
4. Sloppy, slovenly.
1899Daily News 12 Jan. 2/1 They may learn the fact, not in any of your foolish, soppy, theoretical ways, but in a hard, practical manner.
5. Full of mawkish sentiment; foolishly affectionate; inane, indulgent; occas. used affectionately. Also to be soppy on, to be infatuated with (a person). colloq.
1918H. G. Wells Joan & Peter xi. 369 What Joan knew surely to be lovely, Highmorton denounced as ‘soppy’. ‘Soppy’ was a terrible word in boys' schools and girls' schools alike, a flail for all romance. 1920H. G. Hibbert Playgoer's Mem. xxxi. 257 The music halls were filled up with the precipitated baseness of pantomime—the puns, the ‘unprincipalled’ boy, the soppy-sentimental heroine. 1923C. Mackenzie Parson's Progress x. 121 Everyone will be singing for ever and ever and waving palms and playing harps and all that... I reckon Heaven's soppy, I do. 1929H. Williamson Beautiful Years xx. 139 ‘Isn't fair, is it, man?’ ‘Hush, don't let 'em hear us. They'll think us soppy.’ 1930‘E. Bramah’ Little Flutter xix. 218, I may as well make up my mind that I'm soppy on the blighter. 1935,1959[see date n.1 1 b]. 1961Daily Tel. 2 Dec. 1/5 Lord Parker, Lord Chief Justice, said yesterday he deplored the tendency towards ‘soppy and sentimental’ treatment of children in juvenile courts. 1974J. Cooper Women & Super Women 16 Being photographed for the Tatler with a soppy expression on her face. 1977New Yorker 8 Aug. 11/1 Side benefits include a Chinese Legionnaire who sings soppy Irish ballads.
▪ II. soppy
obs. form of sop v. |