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sappy

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adj/ˈsæpi/
  1. 1

    Excessively sweet, emotional, nostalgic; cheesy; mushy. (British equivalent: soppy)US

    • It was a sappy love song, but it reminded them of their first dance.
  2. 2

    Having (a particularly large amount of) sap.

    • But these, tho’ fed with careful dirt, Are neither green nor sappy; Half-conscious of the garden-squirt, The spindlings look unhappy,
    • The sappy green twig-tips of the season’s growth would not, she thought, be appreciably woodier on the day she became a wife, so near was the time; the tints of the foliage would hardly have changed.
  3. 3

    Juicy.obsolete

    • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, Book Two, Canto XII, Stanza 56, edited by Erik Gray, Hackett, 2006, p. 214, In her left hand a Cup of gold she held, And with her right the riper fruit did reach, Whose sappy liquor, that with fulnes
    • 1693, François Rabelais, Gargantua and Pantagruel, Book III, (1546), translated by Thomas Urquhart, Chapter 18, The words of the third article are: She will suck me at my best end. Why not? That pleaseth me right well. You know the thing; I
  4. 4

    Spongy; Having spaces in which large quantities of sap can flow.obsolete

    • ...wood is of a soft spungy nature ; sappy, and alluring to the worm.
adj
  1. 1

    Musty; tainted; rancid.obsolete

    • sappie or unsavourie flesh

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