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Definition: Soppy |
SoppyAdjective1. Wet through and through; thoroughly wet; "stood at the door drenched (or soaked) by the rain"; "a shirt saturated with perspiration"; "his shoes were sopping (or soaking)"; "the speaker's sodden collar"; "soppy clothes". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "soppy" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1900. (references) |
Synonyms: SoppySynonyms: drenched (adj), saturated (adj), soaked (adj), soaking (adj), sodden (adj), sopping (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Soppy |
| English words defined with "soppy": Soaky. (references) |
| "Soppy" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Soppy" is used about 49 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 49 | 48,677 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "soppy": soppy on. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "soppy": soppy-dog, soppy-sounding. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "soppy"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | qull (dabby, drench, get wet, gruel, mash, porridge, saturate, soak, wet), i lagur (awash, dabby, damp, soggy, sopping, wet). (various references) | |
Arabic | ماطر (rainy), غبي (asinine, dense, dick, dim witted, drip, dull, dullard, empty headed, fathead, jerk, lacking, lunatic, moronic, opaque, patsy, plonker, sap, slow witted, stupid, thick, thick-headed, thickish, thick-witted, tomfool, twerp, uncivil, unintelligent, wooden), عاطفي إلى حد صبياني, أبله (asinine, ass, brainless, coot, cuckoo, daw, dense, dim witted, dullard, fatuous, feeble minded, gaga, gawky, goofy, half-witted, idiotic, imbecile, lemon, mad, patsy, screwed, sheepish, silly, sod, sodden, softy, stick in the mud, stupid, vacant, vacuous, wood-headed). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | вир-вода, отпуснат (enervate, flabby, flaccid, flagging, floppy, indolent, lackadaisical, languid, lax, limp, loose, lymphatic, nerveless, sinewless, slack, soft, spiritless, untight), подгизнал (drenched, oozy, soaked, soaking wet, sopping, waterlogged, water-sick), дъждовен (juicy, moist, pluvial, rain, rainy, soft, wet). (various references) | |
Czech | sentimentální (gushing, maudlin, mushy, sentimental, sloppy), rozmìklý (soft, squashy), nasáklý (spongy). (various references) | |
Farsi | مرطوب (Humid, Moist, Muggy, Sappy, Wet), خیلی خیس ولغزنده , خیس (Drunk, Rainy, Sodden, Soggy, Sop, Wet). (various references) | |
French | sentimental (soulful), pluvieux, mouillé, idiot (soft-headed, softy), bébête. (various references) | |
German | durchweicht (sodded, sodden, soddenly, soddy, soggy). (various references) | |
Greek | κάθυγροσ, σαχλόσ (mawkish, namby-pamby, prosy, punk, silly, vapid), μουσκεμένοσ (sodden, soggy, sopping), διάβροχοσ. (various references) | |
Hebrew | ר'ש י וטפשי, רטוב מא". (various references) | |
Hungarian | pipogya (gutless, invertebrate, pusillanimous), átázott (soak, soaked, sodden, soggy, sopping, spongy). (various references) | |
Italian | sciocco (addled, booby, daffy, daft, doltish, featherbrain, fool, foolish, goofy, Gotham, inane, Looby, loon, ludicrous, nincompoop, nitwit, noodle, sap, silly, simper, spoony, stupid). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | ぐうぐう寝ちゃう (accomplice, approximately, cohort, completely exhausted, dead tired, enervated, fast, fast asleep, firmly, flabby, flexible, hanging around, hesitatingly, indecisiveness, limp, lolling, more, much, noticeably, Okinawan fortress, pulpy, remarkably, senseless, sloppy, slowly, soft, sound asleep, sound of rinsing one's mouth, splat!, steadily, tardily, tired, to be unsteady, to fall sound asleep, to reel, to shake, to stray from the right path, turning round and round). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ぐちゃぐちゃ (pulpy, sloppy). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | oppysay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | encharcado (dripping, madid, saturated, soaked, sodden, soggy, sopping, weathered, wet), demasiado sentimental, cheio de água, alagado (waterlogged). (various references) | |
Romanian | prea sentimental, ploios (juicy, rainy, showery, soft, wet), murdar (base, basely, bawdy, dingy, dirty, dungy, filthy, foul, foully, frowzy, greasy, grimy, grubby, impure, mangy, messy, nasty, piggish, piggy, poky, scurrilous, seedy, shabby, slimy, slovenly, smeary, smutty, sordid, sordidly, squalid, Tarry, thick, unclean, untidy), dulceag (fulsome, mellow, sweetish). (various references) | |
Russian | мокрый (madid, sloppy, soggy, sopping, sopping wet, watery, wet). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | mokar (dabby, dank, dripping, wet). (various references) | |
Spanish | sensiblero (maudlin, mushy, sappy, sentimental, sugared, sugary, twee), tonto (ass, cabbagehead, calvish, clod-poll, crass, crazed, cretin, dimwit, dink, dispensary, dummy, dunderhead, fool, foolish, greaseproof paper, harebrained, idiot, idiotic, idleheaded, jenny ass, lemon, loose, nonsensical, numbhead, pinhead, silly, simple minded, soft, soft-headed, spoony, stupid, unwise, wall eyed, witless), bobo (asinine, boob, booby, crazy, daft, dolt, dumbbell, dunce, fool, foolish, gawk, goof, half wit, half-witted, idiot, idiotic, imbecile, juggins, lemon, loony, loose, lummox, mug, mutt, nincompoop, ninny, ninny-hammer, noddy, noodle, numbhead, oafish, sap, saphead, silly, simple simon, soft-headed, stupid, stupide, sucker, wet, yo-yo). (various references) | |
Swedish | hjärtnupen, blöt (soggy, watery, watwry, wet). (various references) | |
Thai | โชก. (various references) | |
Turkish | sulugöz (lachrymose), su gibi (fast, like water, soaking wet, sweaty, watery), sentimental, sırılsıklam (dripping, head over heels, like a drowned rat, soaking wet, sodden, sopping, sopping wet, wet through, wringing, wringing wet), zayıf kişilikli, yağmurlu (pluvial, pluvious, rainy, showery, wet), aşırı duygusal (gooey, histrionic, impressible, impressionable, mushy, over-sensitive, schmaltzy, slobbery, slushy, supersensitive, syrupy, treacly), ıslak (damp, dank, liquid, moist, slobbery, sloppy, splashy, sticky, tacky, watery, wet). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | неохайний (chatty, dowdy, frowzy, frumpish, grubby, negligent, scruffy, slapdash, slattern, slatternly, slobbery, sloven, slovenly, squalid, unclean, uncleanly, unkempt, untidy), мокрий (sloppy, watery, weepy, wet), дощовий (moist, pluvial, pluvious, rainy, watery, wet). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | ẩm ướt; đẫm nước, ướt át (dank, sloppy, splashy, wet). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"Soppy" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: oppy, opy, Ospf, Sappi, sappo, seppo, shoppie, sopay, sophy, sopi, sopp, toppy. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "soppy" (pronounced 'Sop"py'): Chappy, Choppy, Cuppy, Floppy, Happy, harpy, Loppy, Mishappy, Overhappy, Pappy, Paspy, scrappy, Shoppy, slippy, sloppy, snappy, Spattling-poppy, unhappy. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: popsy. | |
| Words within the letters "o-p-p-s-y" | |
-1 letter: pops, posy. | |
-2 letters: ops, pop, sop, soy, spy. | |
-3 letters: op, os, oy, so, yo. | |
| Words containing the letters "o-p-p-s-y" | |
+1 letter: polyps, sloppy. | |
+2 letters: joypops, maypops, polypus, propyls, pyropes, stroppy. | |
+3 letters: apospory, pansophy, polypods, polypous, popishly, prophesy, sloppily. | |
+4 letters: apophyges, apophyses, apophysis, foppishly, hyperopes, hypopneas, hypopyons, isopropyl, lollypops, paperboys, polyphase, polypides, polypneas, polypores, polypuses, polytypes, pomposity, pompously, popinjays, presbyope, puppydoms, purposely, tippytoes, topotypes. | |
+5 letters: apocalypse, apophyseal, appositely, episcopacy, eyepoppers, gypsophila, haplotypes, hyperopias, hypomorphs, hypophyses, hypophysis, hypoplasia, hypoploids, isopropyls, joypoppers, oppositely, oversupply, pelecypods, phenotypes, philosophy, phosphoryl, photoplays, polydipsia, polydipsic, polygraphs, polymorphs, polyparies, polyphasic, polyphones, polyploids, polypodies, polyptychs, poppycocks, poppyheads, populously, porphyrias, porphyries, porphyrins, presbyopes, presbyopia, presbyopic, propensity, propylenes, prosperity, prototypes, psephology, psilophyte, psychopath, puppyhoods, saprophyte, sporophyll, sporophyte, suppletory, supposably, supposedly, typographs. | |
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