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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
soppy
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ After a few drinks, he got all soppy and started talking about the "good old days'.
▪ I couldn't think of anything else so I just bought her a soppy card and some flowers.
▪ I was heartbroken when our dog died but I was determined not to be soppy about it.
▪ She never tired of listening to soppy love songs.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Ain't Dolly a soppy name?
▪ Both are Hollywood-style productions, one a soppy Western, the other a slapstick item featuring a Chaplin lookalike.
▪ Now she knew why Magrat Garlick had always worn those soppy floppy dresses and never wore the pointy hat.
▪ Really we think Bob Mould and Sugar Sugar are soppy and silly.
▪ The show is getting as sloppy as it is soppy.
▪ They ranged from the sleazy to the downright soppy.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Soppy

Soppy \Sop"py\, a. Soaked or saturated with liquid or moisture; very wet or sloppy.

It [Yarmouth] looked rather spongy and soppy.
--Dickens.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
soppy

"very wet," 1823, from sop + -y (2). Meaning "sentimental" first recorded 1918. Related: Soppiness.

Wiktionary
soppy

a. 1 Very wet; sodden, soaked 2 sentimental, maudlin, bathetic 3 (context informal English) schmaltzy

WordNet
soppy

  1. adj. wet through and through; thoroughly wet; "stood at the door drenched (or soaked) by the rain"; "a shirt saturated with perspiration"; "his shoes were sopping (or soaking)"; "the speaker's sodden collar"; "soppy clothes" [syn: drenched, saturated, soaked, soaking, sodden, sopping]

  2. [also: soppiest, soppier]

Usage examples of "soppy".

She was talking to Dorr, and there was a soppy tenderness in her voice.

Gill said in such a soppy tone that both Rafik and Calum gave him an odd look.

Our talented bandmaster has done a very merry and bouncy arrangement of the melody"—Beck looked modest—"and I did new lyrics, not so soppy and sentimental.

They caterwauled the soppiest love ballad they knew while Jump howled accompaniment.