weepie

American  

[wee-pee] / ˈwi pi /

noun

British Informal.

1. a tearjerker; weeper.

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Etymology

Origin of weepie

First recorded in 1925–30; weep ¹ + -ie

Example Sentences

Chloé Zhao’s ye olde dysfunctional marriage weepie deserved a supporting actor nomination for 12-year-old Jacobi Jupe, who is so heartbreaking as William Shakespeare’s brave son that he casts a spell over the movie.

From Los Angeles Times

If you can picture a teen boy in the 2020s with a copy of that weepie lying around his bedroom in the 2020s, then you have the requisite level of gullibility to enjoy this massively contrived picture.

From The Wall Street Journal

Perhaps for having acted before in Kogonada’s 2021 AI weepie “After Yang,” Farrell fares better.

From Los Angeles Times

He noted how there were "giant laughs for Hugh Grant" but that the "weepie sequel is strangely dazed".

From BBC

But nobody really knew to ask for her by name until her turn as the main character’s grifty mother in the 2004 Clint Eastwood boxing weepie “Million Dollar Baby.”

From New York Times