Soapy

Definition: Soapy

Soapy

Adjective

1. Having the qualities of soap (and liable to slip away).

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "soapy" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1872. (references)

Note: Soapy \Soap"y\, adjective. [Comparative Soapier; superlative Soapiest.]. (references)

Food & Agriculture

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonym: Soapy

Flattery

Adjective: flattering;Verb: adulatory; mealy-mouthed, honey-mouthed; honeyed; smooth, smooth-tongued; soapy, oily, unctuous,

Servility

Adjective: servile, obsequious; supple,supple as a glove; soapy, oily, pliant, cringing, abased, dough-faced, fawning, slavish, groveling, sniveling, mealy-mouthed; beggarly, sycophantic, parasitical; abject, prostrate, down on ones marrowbones; base, mean, sneaking; crouching; Verb:

Unctuousness

Adjective: unctuous, oily, oleaginous, adipose, sebaceous; unguinous; fat, fatty, greasy; waxy, butyraceous, soapy, saponaceous, pinguid, lardaceous; slippery.

Crosswords: Soapy

A Soapy Opera (1952)

Soapy the Germ Fighter (1951)

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Books

• Ashley and the Soapy Suds Flying Club (reference)

• Soapy (reference)

• Soapy Smith (reference)

• Soapy Smith : uncrowned king of Skagway (reference)

• Soapy water and cabinda : a 1985 rollercoaster through myth & fact in South African political violence (reference)

  (more book examples)

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Dock where "Soapy Smith" was shot. Credit: Library of Congress.

Town Hall and "Soapy Smith's" saloon. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Health

Wash your hands with hot, soapy water before preparing food and after using the bathroom or changing diapers. (references)

Wash hands, counters, and utensils with hot soapy water after they touch raw meat. Never place cooked hamburgers or ground beef on the unwashed plate that held raw patties. (references)

Travel

Indonesia

At home, wash and soak all local fruit and vegetables in Clorox-treated, soapy water. (references)

Turkey

Neither do the accepted practices of frequent soapy handwashing or covering of the mouth when coughing or sneezing and then washing hands. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expression using "soapy": soapy water. Additional references.

Beginning with "soapy": soapy-looking.

Albanian

me shkumë sapuni, i sapunisur, i rrëshqitshëm (greasy, slippery, slippy). (various references)

Arabic 

‏مكسو بالصابون, ‏متملق (blandly, coaxing, courtly, fawning, ingratiating, insinuating, oily, oleaginous, slimy, smooth, unctuous, wheedling), ‏زالق (slidering, slippery), ‏صابوني, ‏أملس (downy, lubricious, sleek, slick, smooth, unctuous, unruffled). (various references)

Bulgarian 

угоднически (obsequious, servile, slavish), сапунен (saponaceous), сапунисан, мазен (fat, fatty, greasy, mellow, oily, oleaginous, pinguid, rich, sleek, slimy, treacly, unctuous, yolky), пенест (barmy, foamy, frothy, nappy, scummy, sudsy). (various references)

Chinese 

肥皂 (SOAP). (various references)

Czech

mýdlový (saponaceous). (various references)

Danish

sæbeagtig. (various references)

Dutch

zeepsmaak (soapy taste, taste of lye). (various references)

Farsi 

صابونی , صابون دار. (various references)

Finnish

saippuainen (soapy taste, taste of lye). (various references)

French

savonneux. (various references)

German

seifig (soapily, soppy). (various references)

Greek 

σαπωνώδης, σαπουνώδησ (lathery), σαπουνισμένοσ, γεμάτοσ με σαπουνάδα. (various references)

Hebrew 

מסובן (soaped), סבו� י. (various references)

Hungarian

szappanos (clammy). (various references)

Italian

saponoso. (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

石鹸水 (soapy water). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

せっけ�"すい (soapy water). (various references)

Korean 

비누 (SOAP, Soapier, Soapiest). (various references)

Manx

shliawin (insidious, lubricated, skiddy, sleek, slippery, smooth, smooth-faced), sheeabinagh (lathery). (various references)

Pig Latin

oapysay.(various references)

Portuguese

semelhante a sabão, saponoso, saponáceo (saponaceous), untuoso (buttery, greasy, oleaginous, tallowy, unctuous), mole (boneless, flaccid, floppy, limp, loppy, molluscous, mushy, pappy, pithless, pulpy, sleepy, sluggish, soft, spineless, spiritless, squashy, supine, tender, weak), ensaboado (lathery), cheio de sabão. (various references)

Romanian

sentimental (lackadaisical, maudlin, namby-pamby, sentimental, sentimentalist, sentimentally, slip-slop, soft, soulful, soulfully, tender-hearted), mieros (cajoling, greasy, honeyed, ingratiating, oilily, oily, silky, sleek, smooth, smooth-faced, sugary, unctuous), cu sãpun. (various references)

Russian 

мыльный (saponaceous, sudsy). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

sapunjav, sapunast (saponaceous). (various references)

Spanish

jabonoso. (various references)

Swedish

sliskig (insipid, mushy, saccharine, sickly sweet), såpig, tvålig. (various references)

Thai

ซึ่งมีฟองสบู่. (various references)

Turkish

sabunlu (saponaceous, sudsy), yağcı (apple polisher, buttery, crawler, deadhead, flatterer, greaser, greasy, gushing, gushy, lickspittle, loader, obsequious, oily, oleaginous, reptilian, silky, sleek, slime, suck, sucker, toady), dalkavuk (adulator, adulatory, apple polisher, bootlicker, brown-nose, bumsucker, creeper, cringing, deadhead, flatterer, flunkey, flunky, groveler, groveller, lackey, minion, reptile, silky, sycophant, toadeating, toady, tufthunter, yes man). (various references)

Ukrainian

�"лейний (churchy, oily, saponaceous, sleek, unctuous), намилений, мильний (saponaceous). (various references)

Vietnamese 

người (ball, thee, trunk). (various references)

Misspellings

"Soapy" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: ls-api, sapey, sapoy, shoap, Siepi, slappy, slapy, soapa, soape, soay, soey, sopa, sopay, sophy, sopi, suavy, zoap. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: pays, posy, pyas, soap, soya, spay, yaps.

-2 letters: asp, ays, ops, pas, pay, pya, sap, say, sop, soy, spa, spy, yap.

-3 letters: as, ay, op, os, oy, pa, so, ya, yo.

+1 letter: payors, yapoks, yapons.

+2 letters: autopsy, calypso, maypops, myopias, payoffs, payolas, payouts, pyrolas, soapily, teapoys, yapocks, yaupons.

+3 letters: apospory, apostacy, apostasy, calypsos, charpoys, copycats, dyspnoea, dystopia, hyponeas, hypoxias, maypoles, nonplays, outplays, outprays, overpays, paduasoy, pageboys, pansophy, paronyms, paroxysm, payloads, payrolls, playboys, playoffs, polynyas, polyomas, portrays, postally, psalmody, pyranose, pyrostat, rhapsody, ropeways, saponify, sympodia, symposia, syncopal.