Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗adj
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryVery wet; sodden, soaked. · Overly sentimental, maudlin, schmaltzy.
From sop + -y. In sense 2, unrelated etymologically to sappy (“excessively emotional”).
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