Crossword clues for sappy
sappy
- Sentimental, as a film
- Sentimental to a fault
- Sentimental and then some
- Patently sentimental
- Overly sweet, like the sticky stuff in trees
- Overly maudlin
- Mushy, like some love poems
- Like silly fools or maple trees
- Like sentimental trees?
- Like rom-coms, typically
- Like maple trees and pigeons?
- Like maple trees
- Extremely sentimental
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Sappy \Sap"py\, a. [Written also sapy.] [Cf. L. sapere to taste.] Musty; tainted. [Obs.]
Sappy \Sap"py\, a. [Compar. Sappier; superl. Sappiest.]
Abounding with sap; full of sap; juicy; succulent.
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Hence, young, not firm; weak, feeble.
When he had passed this weak and sappy age.
--Hayward. Weak in intellect. [Low]
(Bot.) Abounding in sap; resembling, or consisting largely of, sapwood.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"full of sap," Late Old English sæpig, from sæp (see sap (n.1)). Figurative sense of "foolishly sentimental" (1660s) may have developed from an intermediate sense of "wet, sodden" (late 15c.). Earlier, now obsolete, figurative senses were "full of vitality" (1550s) and "immature" (1620s).
Wiktionary
Etymology 1 a. 1 (context US English) Excessively sweet, emotional, nostalgic; cheesy; mushy. (British equivalent: soppy) 2 Having sap or having to do with sap. Etymology 2
a. (context obsolete English) musty; tainted alt. (context obsolete English) musty; tainted
WordNet
adj. pungent adjectives of disesteem; "gave me a cockamamie reason for not going"; "wore a goofy hat"; "a silly idea"; "some wacky plan for selling more books" [syn: cockamamie, cockamamy, goofy, silly, wacky, whacky, zany, unreasonable]
abounding in sap; "sappy maple trees"; "sappy kindling wood"
Wikipedia
"Sappy" is a song by the American rock band Nirvana. It was first released as a hidden track on the 1993 AIDS-benefit compilation album No Alternative. At the time the song was credited by the title "Verse Chorus Verse", which happens to be the title of an earlier, different Nirvana song that had been scrapped. The same 1993 recording, under the song's original title of "Sappy", also appears on the Nirvana rarities box set With the Lights Out, released in 2004.
Usage examples of "sappy".
Coming, as I was noting, to see his new lands, he was obliged to pass through the clachan one day, when all the middens were gathered out, reeking and sappy, in the middle of the causey.
Mirri came and went, restocking towels and humming a sappy tune, and she gave Dari a cheerful wave as she carried out the last of the used linen.
The horological demon in there was supposed to be friendly, not sappy.
She thought that the setting would be just right for a sappy Tricot perfume commercial.
She'd never gone for the whole angel craze herself, not the cutesie ones or the New Age ones or the sappy ones on TV.
Elbryan recognized the black, sappy poison, a pain -- inducing product of a rare black birch tree.
Elbryan recognized the black, sappy poison, a pain inducing product of a rare black birch tree.
Elbryan recognized the black, sappy poison, a pain-inducing product of a rare black birch tree.
Jill is at the memorial service right now, trying to get a sappy feature story.
She wouldn't have been sappy enough to go to some rundown lodginghouse near the freight yards or longshoremen's hostelry down by the piers.
The grey squirrel, usually in early summer, attacked trees, gnawing at the main stem for the sweet, sappy layers beneath the rough bark.
As it flows it takes the forms of sappy leaves or vines, making heaps of pulpy sprays a foot or more in depth, and resembling, as you look down on them, the laciniated, lobed, and imbricated thalluses of some lichens.
The one about the Yank flier who'd requalified as a fighter pilot after twenty years away from aeroplanes was particularly sappy.
He also discovered that some chunks were harder than others, and some sappier, and others twistier.
Say now, ye scops, were there ever in Middle Earth as Hrothgar's henchmen such sappy sissies?