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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