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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
soapy
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
soapy
▪ Wash your hands with hot soapy water.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
water
▪ It must always be kept dry but washed in warm soapy water every two weeks.
▪ Wash the container in hot soapy water and rinse thoroughly in hot water.
▪ Cups, crockery, cutlery and glasses can all be washed in hot soapy water in the usual way.
▪ She stood him on the kitchen table, where he dripped soapy water on to the plastic tablecloth.
▪ Follow that up with hot, soapy water and a hose over everything, and I suggest you do the underside first.
▪ After handling the raw turkey, wash hands and utensils with hot soapy water.
▪ Emily filled the washing-up bowl with hot soapy water.
▪ Wash with soapy water and ammonia.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ warm soapy water
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ After handling the raw turkey, wash hands and utensils with hot soapy water.
▪ As he sprayed the soapy cat, he stared up at the Fermoyle house.
▪ Cups, crockery, cutlery and glasses can all be washed in hot soapy water in the usual way.
▪ Follow that up with hot, soapy water and a hose over everything, and I suggest you do the underside first.
▪ Real diamonds have a quite distinctive, soapy texture to the surface and are immune from water.
▪ She stood him on the kitchen table, where he dripped soapy water on to the plastic tablecloth.
▪ The paint may blister in a mild attack or show yellow soapy runs in a severe attack.
▪ Wash the container in hot soapy water and rinse thoroughly in hot water.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Soapy

Soapy \Soap"y\, a. [Compar. Soapier; superl. Soapiest.]

  1. Resembling soap; having the qualities of, or feeling like, soap; soft and smooth.

  2. Smeared with soap; covered with soap.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
soapy

c.1600, from soap (n.) + -y (2). Related: Soapily; soapiness.

Wiktionary
soapy

a. 1 resembling soap 2 resembling a soap opera 3 full of soap 4 covered in soap

WordNet
soapy

  1. adj. having the qualities of soap (and liable to slip away) [syn: saponaceous]

  2. [also: soapiest, soapier]

Wikipedia
Soapy

Soapy may refer to:

As a person's nickname:

  • Neil Castles (born 1934), retired NASCAR driver
  • Jack Shapiro (1907-2001), American football player who played one game in the National Football League, becoming the shortest player ever in the league
  • Soapy Smith (1860-1898), con artist, saloon and gambling house proprietor, gangster and crime boss of the American Old West
  • Harry Vallence (1905-1991), Australian rules footballer
  • G. Mennen Williams (1911-1988), 41st Governor of Michigan, Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs under President John F. Kennedy and Chief Justice of the Michigan Supreme Court

Fictional characters:

  • Soapy, the protagonist of the O. Henry short story " The Cop and the Anthem"
  • Soapy Jones, a sidekick in 15 Western movies (1946-1948), played by Roscoe Ates
  • Thomas "Soapy" Malloy, a minor character in four P. G. Wodehouse novels
  • Soapy, a character in the 1938 film Angels with Dirty Faces, played by Billy Halop

Other uses:

  • Soapy Awards, an award presented by Soap Opera Digest magazine from 1977 until 1983

Usage examples of "soapy".

Mrs Standage had once coxed an eight at Cambridge, of the outraged moral feelings of Soapy Clodd, of Detective-Inspector Cadover now grim and silent in a police car hurrying out to Croydon.

James, the first thing is to have a dish of hot soapy water to stick the cutlery into after each course, and a place to scrape away the leavings.

I had some little money set aside to buy an electric corn husker this autumn, but a soapy tit wank sounds like it would be better value.

Rose and Veronica waddled out of the kitchen with buckets slopping-full of soapy water in one hand and mops in the other.

The day before that, it had been his lot to remove what must have been thousands of tiny pieces of crystal from a chandelier in the front parlor, dip them in soapy water, rinse and polish them, and then rehang them.

It contains resin and mucilage, in addition to saponin, which is its leading principle, and by virtue of which decoctions of the root produce a soapy froth.

Throwing the soapy flannel at Scofflaw, he leaned back, sending more torrents into the guardroom.

I just smiled and soaped up his arm, running my fingers along the slick surface of his skin, feeling the hard muscle flex and tense as I made soapy little finger designs along the flesh.

The soapies had known about this, almost certainly, but in those days they were somewhat more tolerant.

Marc Vilo, and behind them stood a pair of soapies in their sky blue jumpsuits and their silver-masked helmets.

They were all after him, all of them: Caine, Lamorak, Pallas, Dole and Vilo, and the damned soapies behind him.

All his jitters, all his bitter determination to destroy Caine, all the back-of-the-neck pressure of the soapies in the booth, all was forgotten.

Soapy and a knighthood, while his period as Minister of Technological Development had been rewarded by an early retirement and the Mastership of Porterhouse.

He had a dishpan full of soapy water, and he kept sloshing the water through the chimney.

Dripping with soapy water, he streamed and shined, a Sculpture rather than a man.