soppy
adjective
Etymology: denominative of sop (= a copious collection of liquid) + -y (suffix).
Comparative form: soppier
Superlative form: soppiest
1. Literally (obsolete acceptation): containing sop.
2. Hence: permeated, covered, or saturated with a liquid
It may be approximately translated by inzuppato, in Italian; empapado, in Spanish; détrempé, in French.
Synonyms: drenched, steeped, soaked, sloppy
Antonyms: dried, desiccated
It is a […] little plant –a marsh-frog of marsh-frogs, growing only in the very soppiest of places, and climbing high upon the mountains.
Reginald Farrer (My Rock-Garden)
The laird’s garden was in a bad climate, and in sour, soppy land.
The Horticultural review and botanical magazine
[…] there was a slimy pond into which a tree or two had fallen—one soppy trunk and branches lay across it then—which in its accumulation of stagnant weed, and in its black decomposition, and in all its foulness and filth, was almost comforting, regarded as the only water that could have reflected the shameful place without seeming polluted by that low office.
Charles Dickens (Tom Tiddler’s Ground)
It rained all night –a cold, insistent down-pour. […] our blankets got soppy.
John G. Neihardt (The river and I)
[…] through my panties I could feel how soppy it [my pussy] was.
M. Pelletils (The Memoirs of Mitzy)
***With the preposition with, to signify the liquid:
Ethel slips a piece of kitchen tissue over the meat to make sure the two pieces of Texas toast don’t get soppy with sauce, piles in the crinkle-cut fries, the same brand used there for thirty years.
Fred W. Sauceman (The Place Setting)
The grass on the front lawns was soppy with the last of the melting snow.
Kenneth Burke (Here & elsewhere)
He was lying on his back, his coat and jacket open. The front of his shirt was soppy with blood.
Mark Hebden (Pel and the Staghound)
3. (Of weather) very rainy
4. (Of a person) ridiculously or excessively affectionate, as if changed from a hard state into a softened one.
Postdefinition: it is a metaphorical acceptation
It may be approximately translated by ridicolamente mite, ridicolamente affettuoso, in Italian; ridiculement affectueux, in French; ridículamente afectuoso, sensiblero, in Spanish.
Syntax: with the prepositions on, about, with, to signify the object of one’s affectionateness:
[…] he took no notice of me and walked past me with long steady strides, straight to where Lynda was being soppy with the boy on the stairs.
Emma Cooke (A book of tricks)
[…] I have probably wasted a lot of time over the years being a bit soppy with my horses, but I have always believed that the relationship between horse and rider has to be a real partnership.
Pippa Funnell - Kate Green (Training the Young Horse)
She felt tears pricking her eyes. ‘Oh, Steve…’
‘Hey,’ he said. ‘Don’t get all soppy on me. If I’m going to get sick, this is probably the best place in the whole world to be. And it’s only the flu, after all […]’
Peter May (Snakehead)
“[I] want you to know that I love you more than I’ve ever loved anyone in my life.”
Kimberley was surprised by his unexpected confession […]. “Why are you going all soppy on me now?”
Angus Hyslop (An African Odyssey)
‘When I was at school,’ said Ros, ‘I used to get soppy about certain boys, you know, cutes one […]’
Dhivan Thomas Jones (Green Eros)
[Ellie] was too busy being soppy about the bird. She put it in a box, and packed it round with cotton wool, and dug a little hole.
Essential fiction anthology, compiled by Brian Moses
Whenever the guys were feeling soppy about love they played it [the song]
Donna Gaines (Teenage wasteland)
Sierra never cried! She wasn’t the type. And she would certainly not get soppy about a marriage like theirs.
Anne McAllister (The Inconvenient Bride)
What Joan knew surely to be lovely, Highmorton denounced as ‘soppy’.
Herbert Wells (Joan & Peter)
5. (Of something) characteristic of, or made by, a ridiculously affectionate person.
Postdefinition: it is a metaphorical acceptation
It was a silly romantic story, interrupted by the soppiest songs.
Rob Gerrand (The best Australian science fiction writing)
I had the biggest, soppiest smile on my face.
Jodi Picoult (Handle with care)
Other English vocables derived from sop: soppiness, sopping, soppiness, sopper, sop (verb), soup, souping, souped
