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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
soupy
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ The fine, powdery soil turned to soupy mud with the first heavy rains.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Chain-up was slow, breakfast abandoned, the two-step became a slow drag over soupy grass and unreliable earth.
▪ Do they still boil cabbage to a soupy pulp in Britain, and pour the vitamin C down the drain?
▪ The result is less soupy than most, and somehow more adult.
▪ The two men came back with their hands fish-white with immersion what was, fortunately, warm, almost soupy water.
▪ The voice of rock'n'roll, in contrast, is almost unrelievedly soupy.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Soupy

Soupy \Soup"y\, a. Resembling soup; souplike.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
soupy

"like soup; wet," 1828 (noted then as a Yorkshire word), from soup (n.) + -y (2). Related: Soupiness.

Wiktionary
soupy

a. 1 resembling soup; creamy 2 extravagantly sentimental; slushy

Usage examples of "soupy".

That was good solid space they were lost in, not this soupy psychedelic space they have on TV now, all tricks with music and lights, tricks he associates with the movie 2001, an unpleasant association since that was the time Janice ran off with Charlie and all hell broke loose on the home front.

Dinner had to be early because Nelson and Pru were going over to Soupy, as they both call Campbell, for their third session of counseling.

Rabbit figures he can leave them to it, and using Soupy as a pick makes his move away.

Friday evening I went down to the Slaw pub and exchanged bug-eyed looks with Soupy across the room.

There was no one like Soupy among them in spite of what October had said about the cases of doping in the village, and no one, as far as I could see, who cared if I were as crooked as a corkscrew.

There was no sign of Soupy or his mysterious friend, and having bought some beer, I amused myself at the dart board, throwing one-to-twenty sequences, and trying to make a complete ring in the trebles.

It was nearly ten, the hour when the lads began to empty their glasses and think about having to get up the next morning, when Soupy strolled across the room toward the door and, seeing my eyes on him, jerked his head for me to follow him.

I went alone to Slaw on Tuesday evening, when Soupy handed over another seventy-five pounds.

I had finished the report, he spent some time outlining and discussing the proceedings which were to be taken against Humber, Cass, and Jud Wilson, and also against Soupy Tarleton and his friend Lewis Greenfield.

Muscular and fast, they glided through the soupy undergrowth, watching her every step, waiting for her to trip.

The soupy pastel clouds became a turmoil of glowing bruises, making the bloated world look like a piece of rotting fruit.

Like the others, Soupy turned, then leaped to the side of the road as he heard a car come roaring from a bend behind him.

All that soupy stuff you never heard anymore, except as a joke, maybe, or archived on some ToonTown Web site.

Silty, soupy water had seeped into the various gashes and punctures on his body and now leaked in trickling runnels with every heavy step he took.

The attempts to burn them down had only made them more dangerous and uglier, and deepened the wasteland, and thickened the soupy air, like something out of the Jurassic Ageblack rocks and big greasy birds.