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SAPPY
bathetic, drippy, hokey, maudlin, mawkish, kitschy, mushy, schmaltzy, schmalzy, sentimental, sappy, soppy, soupy, slushy
(adjective) effusively or insincerely emotional; “a bathetic novel”; “maudlin expressions of sympathy”; “mushy effusiveness”; “a schmaltzy song”; “sentimental soap operas”; “slushy poetry”
sappy
(adjective) abounding in sap; “sappy maple trees”; “sappy kindling wood”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology 1
Adjective
sappy (comparative sappier, superlative sappiest)
(US) Excessively sweet, emotional, nostalgic; cheesy; mushy. (British equivalent: soppy)
Having (a particularly large amount of) sap.
(obsolete) Juicy.
(obsolete, of wood) Spongy; Having spaces in which large quantities of sap can flow.
Etymology 2
Adjective
sappy (comparative more sappy, superlative most sappy)
(obsolete) Musty; tainted; rancid.
Anagrams
• appys, paspy, yapps
Source: Wiktionary
Sap"py, a. [Compar. Sappier; superl. Sappiest.] Etym: [From 1st Sap.]
1. Abounding with sap; full of sap; juisy; succulent.
2. Hence, young, not firm; weak, feeble. When he had passed this weak and sapy age. Hayward.
3. Weak in intellect. [Low]
4. (Bot.)
Definition: Abounding in sap; resembling, or consisting lagerly of, sapwood.
Sap"py, a. [Written also sapy.] Etym: [Cf. L. sapere to taste.]
Definition: Musty; tainted. [Obs.]
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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