Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗adj
Inclined to weep; tearful or lachrymose. · Of a film or book etc.: full of tragic melodrama.
noun
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryAlternative form of weepie.
Etymology tree English weep Proto-Indo-European *-kos Proto-Germanic *-gaz Proto-West Germanic *-g Old English -iġ Middle English -y English -y English weepy From weep + -y.
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