sappy
Meaning
- (US) Excessively sweet, emotional, nostalgic; cheesy; mushy. (British equivalent: soppy)
- Having (a particularly large amount of) sap.
- (obsolete) Juicy.
- (obsolete) Spongy; Having spaces in which large quantities of sap can flow.
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Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈsæpi/
Etymology
In summary
From Middle English sappy, sapy, from Old English sæpiġ (“full of sap, succulent”), equivalent to sap + -y. Cognate with West Frisian sappig (“juicy”), Dutch sappig (“juicy, succulent”), Middle High German saffic, seffec ("juicy, succulent"; > German saftig), Danish saftig (“juicy”), Swedish saftig (“juicy”). Doublet of zaftig.
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