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sappy
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Wiktionary
Word definitions in 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; ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Sappy \Sap"py\, a. [Compar. Sappier ; superl. Sappiest .] Abounding with sap; full of sap; juicy; succulent. 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, ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in 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" ...
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?