sappy
[sap-ee]
- abounding in sap, as a plant.
- full of vitality and energy.
- Slang. silly or foolish.
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Origin of sappy
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Related Words
mushy, stupid, silly, maudlin, absurd, balmy, crazy, idiotic, illogical, insane, loony, preposterous, sticky, bathetic, drippy, slushy, soppyExamples from the Web for sappy
Contemporary Examples
Natalia comes around after a bit of ruminating to sappy music.
The trailer was too sappy to go with my friends and the poster was too steamy to go with my parents.
A Love Letter to ‘The Notebook,’ a Melodrama That Commits to Its SentimentalityTeo Bugbee
June 26, 2014
The lyrics range from sappy to explicit, but the level of lunacy is nothing if not consistent.
Not in a sappy, ‘Oh my God I totally love you way,’ but in a way that reinforces other aspects of my personality.
Dropping off Haley at school could have been really dewy and sappy.
Historical Examples
The wind had got into the sou' west, too—a delicious air, sappy!
Five TalesJohn Galsworthy
Fat and green and fruitful may ye be, in the true and sappy root.
Letters of Samuel RutherfordSamuel Rutherford
The sappy one set the leg and withdrew, programming a call for the next day.
The Sunset TrailAlfred Henry Lewis
This was in Western Ontario amongst a range of sappy pine hills.
Hunting DogsOliver Hartley
It is not especially valuable for timber, because it is too sappy.
On Canada's FrontierJulian Ralph
sappy
- (of plants) full of sap
- full of energy or vitality
- slang silly or fatuous
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Word Origin and History for sappy
adj.
"full of sap," Late Old English sæpig, from sæp (see sap (n.1)). Figurative sense of "foolishly sentimental" (1660s) may have developed from an intermediate sense of "wet, sodden" (late 15c.). Earlier, now obsolete, figurative senses were "full of vitality" (1550s) and "immature" (1620s).
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