Etymology
Origin of sudsy
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Somewhere along the way, the biggest producer in television caught wind of Lasser’s chops and wanted her for his pet project, a parody of sudsy daytime dramas called “Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 2026
Actor Raymond Cruz was held in custody for five hours on Monday after a sudsy spat with three women in his Los Angeles neighborhood.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2025
The odd urgency of the age condenses in a 2022 picture by Jessica Wilson, “Perfectly Clear” — a nearly photorealistic 3-D rendering of a hand drawing a squeegee down a sudsy windowpane.
From New York Times ● Jul. 13, 2022
In an unfortunate turn of events for sponge users, a recent study has revealed that those sudsy rectangular squares may be more optimal for bacteria growth than even a petri dish in a lab.
From Salon ● Mar. 18, 2022
Her hands were sudsy from the dishwater but she didn’t rinse or dry them before plonking herself down at the kitchen table.
From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns
But in high-efficiency washers, in which laundry rotates in a drum and is sprayed with water and not continually submerged, more detergent means sudsier clothes.
From BusinessWeek ● Oct. 23, 2014
“I opened my eyes for a second, not believing that what I’d dreamed of was happening,” she writes, and it only gets sudsier from there.
From New York Times ● Mar. 23, 2011
Instead, I've been glued to a true-life Web spin-off that's even sudsier than the real thing.
From Time Magazine Archive
In perhaps the sudsiest scene, Lady Marjorie gives up her young man, the Roddy Llewellyn of 1906.
From Time Magazine Archive
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