soppy

comparative soppier · superlative soppiest

1. Very wet; sodden, soaked.

   '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?'

   1865, Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, Wives and Daughters, Chapter I

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   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.

   1849 May – 1850 November, Charles Dickens, The Personal History of David Copperfield, London: Bradbury & Evans, […], published 1850, →OCLC

   Synonyms: drenched, soggy, waterlogged, bewatered, damp, drenched, dripping, drunk

2. figurativelyinformalOverly sentimental, maudlin, schmaltzy.

   Listen, those men will only turn soppy and puppy-dog eyed as soon as your turn to leave.

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   "[…] 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."

   1920, F. Scott Fitzgerald, chapter 4, in This Side of Paradise, volume 1

   Synonyms: mushy, sappy, treacly, bathetic, cheesy, squishy, corny, drippy