SOUPY

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”

soupy

(adjective) having the consistency and appearance of soup; “a soupy fog”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Adjective

soupy (comparative soupier, superlative soupiest)

Resembling soup; creamy.

Extravagant sentimental; slushy.

Anagrams

• puoys

Source: Wiktionary


Soup"y, a.

Definition: Resembling soup; souplike.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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