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sop⋅py

   [sop-ee]
–adjective, -pi⋅er, -pi⋅est.
1. soaked, drenched, or very wet, as ground.
2. rainy, as weather.
3. British Slang. excessively sentimental; mawkish.
Origin:
1605–15; sop + -y 1
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sop·py     (sŏp'ē)  Pronunciation Key 
adj.   sop·pi·er, sop·pi·est
  1. Soaked; sopping.
  2. Rainy.
  3. Sentimental; maudlin.

The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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soppy 
"very wet," 1823, from sop; meaning "sentimental" first recorded 1918.

Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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soppy

adjective
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] 
2. effusively or insincerely emotional; "a bathetic novel"; "maudlin expressions of sympathy"; "mushy effusiveness"; "a schmaltzy song"; "sentimental soap operas"; "slushy poetry" 

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Soppy

Sop"py\, a. Soaked or saturated with liquid or moisture; very wet or sloppy.

It [Yarmouth] looked rather spongy and soppy. --Dickens.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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