In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
SOPPY
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”
sodden, soppy
(adjective) wet through and through; thoroughly wet; “stood at the door drenched (or soaked) by the rain”; “the speaker’s sodden collar”; “soppy clothes”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Adjective
soppy (comparative soppier, superlative soppiest)
Very wet; sodden, soaked
sentimental, maudlin, bathetic, schmaltzy
Anagrams
• Yopps, popsy, psyop
Source: Wiktionary
Sop"py, a.
Definition: Soaked or saturated with liquid or moisture; very wet or sloppy. It [Yarmouth] looked rather spongy and soppy. Dickens.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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BARGAIN
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