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[ soo-pee ] / ˈsu pi / SEE SYNONYMS FOR soupy ON THESAURUS.COM
adjective, soup·i·er, soup·i·est.resembling soup in consistency: soupy oatmeal. very thick; dense: a soupy fog. Informal. overly sentimental; mawkish: soupy love scenes. Origin of soupyFirst recorded in 1870–75; soup + -y1 Words nearby soupysoupmeat, soup plate, soupspoon, soup-to-nuts, soup up, soupy, sour, sourball, sourberry, source, source amnesia Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for soupyThe thick fish smell wafted through the soupy air, and my skin went clammy. I Shot Bin Laden|Elliot Ackerman|November 16, 2014|DAILY BEAST Watch video of others who took a cream pie to the noggin after Soupy set the standard. The 6 Best Pie-in-the-Face Pranks|The Daily Beast Video|October 23, 2009|DAILY BEAST Well, if you ask ME, I'm glad you started off with it—this soupy stuff'd be the mischief to get away with with a fork. Lockhart brought the Magellan down gradually, closer, closer, and finally sank it into the soupy atmosphere of Venus. The Secret of the Ninth Planet|Donald Allen Wollheim
The soupy, saffron-colored fog enshrouded the Viking as she dropped lower and lower. The Golden Amazons of Venus|John Murray Reynolds Where he broke it away oozed a soupy liquid full of tiny maggots in a delirium of feasting. The Forgotten Planet|Murray Leinster After cracking the shells, the procedure was to boil and strain the mixture, which gave them a rich, soupy liquid. Trees Worth Knowing|Julia Ellen Rogers
British Dictionary definitions for soupy
adjective soupier or soupiesthaving the appearance or consistency of soup informal, mainly US and Canadian emotional or sentimental Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Words related to soupymushy, maudlin, syrupy, affected, affectionate, bathetic, corny, demonstrative, dewy-eyed, dreamy, effusive, gushy, idealistic, impressionable, inane, insipid, jejune, languishing, loving, mawkish |