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Soppy

Definition: Soppy

Soppy

Adjective

1. 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: Soppy

Synonyms: drenched (adj), saturated (adj), soaked (adj), soaking (adj), sodden (adj), sopping (adj). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Soppy

English words defined with "soppy": Soaky. (references)

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Usage Frequency: Soppy

"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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)100%4948,677

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: Soppy

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.

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Modern Translation: Soppy

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.

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Misspellings: Soppy

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).

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Rhyming with "Soppy"

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)

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Anagrams: Soppy

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.

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

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage Frequency
5. Expressions
6. Translations: Modern
7. Derivations
8. Rhymes
9. Anagrams
10. Bibliography


  

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