Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

soppy

/ˈsɒpi/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.30 in modern English

Syllables: sop-py
IPA: /ˈsɒpi/

12

Scrabble Score

5

Letters

2

Syllables

4

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Very wet; sodden, soaked.

adj

Overly sentimental, maudlin, schmaltzy.

Informal

Example Sentences

"Yarmouth […] looked rather spongy and soppy, I thought, as I carried my eye over the great dull waste that lay across the river; and I could not help wondering, if the world were really as round as my geography book said, how any part of it came to be so flat."
"'Goodness me!' said I to myself, 'whatever will become of sister's white satin shoes, if she has to walk about on soppy grass after such rain as this?'"
"Listen, those men will only turn soppy and puppy-dog eyed as soon as your turn to leave."
""[…] It's unfortunate, if I happen to look like what pleased some soppy old Greek sculptor, but I assure you that if it weren't for my face I'd be a quiet nun in the convent without"—then she broke into a run and her raised voice floated back to him as he followed—"my precious babies, which I must go back and see.""

Etymology

From sop + -y. In sense 2, unrelated etymologically to sappy (“excessively emotional”).

Usage

Informal

Inflected Forms

soppier (comparative) soppiest (superlative)

Derived Forms

soppily soppiness unsoppy

Synonyms

drenched soggy waterlogged bewatered damp dripping drunk humid irriguous madid moist moisty

Rhymes With

copy poppy sloppy floppy choppy jalopy gloppy hoppy stroppy boppy oppy koppie

Questions

How do you pronounce soppy?: The recorded pronunciation is /ˈsɒpi/.
What does soppy mean?: Very wet; sodden, soaked.
Where does soppy come from?: From sop + -y. In sense 2, unrelated etymologically to sappy (“excessively emotional”).

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