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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: wet through and through; thoroughly wet; "stood at the door drenched (or soaked) by the rain"; "the speaker's sodden collar"; "soppy clothes" [syn: sodden, soppy]
2: effusively or insincerely emotional; "a bathetic novel"; "maudlin expressions of sympathy"; "mushy effusiveness"; "a schmaltzy song"; "sentimental soap operas"; "slushy poetry" [syn: bathetic, drippy, hokey, maudlin, mawkish, kitschy, mushy, schmaltzy, schmalzy, sentimental, soppy, soupy, slushy]

Merriam Webster's

adjective (soppier; -est) Date: 1631 1. sentimental, mawkish 2. a. soaked through ; saturated b. very wet • soppiness noun

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. (soppier, soppiest) 1 Brit. colloq. a silly or foolish in a feeble or self-indulgent way. b mawkishly sentimental. 2 Brit. colloq. (foll. by on) foolishly infatuated with. 3 soaked with water. Derivatives: soppily adv. soppiness n. Etymology: SOP + -Y(1)

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Soppy Sop"py, a. Soaked or saturated with liquid or moisture; very wet or sloppy. It [Yarmouth] looked rather spongy and soppy. --Dickens.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(soppier, soppiest) If you describe someone or something as soppy, you mean that they are foolishly sentimental. (BRIT INFORMAL) He's constantly on the phone to his girlfriend being soppy... = slushy ADJ

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

a. Sopped, soaked, saturated, drenched.