sappy
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sappy¹
- /ˈsæpi/
Rhymes with -æpi
Where it comes from
From Middle English sappy, sapy, from Old English sæpiġ (“full of sap, succulent”), equivalent to sap + -y. Cognate with West Frisian sappig (“juicy”), Dutch sappig (“juicy, succulent”), Middle High German saffic, seffec ("juicy, succulent"; > German saftig), Danish saftig (“juicy”), Swedish saftig (“juicy”). Doublet of zaftig.
adjective sappier · sappiest
- Excessively sweet, emotional, nostalgic; cheesy; mushy. (British equivalent: soppy) He was a good deal of a character, and much better company than the sappy literature he was selling.
- Having (a particularly large amount of) sap. ‘Torches are made to light, jewels to wear, Dainties to taste, fresh beauty for the use, Herbs for their smell, and sappy plants to bear: Things growing to themselves are growth’s abuse: Seeds spring from seeds and beauty breedeth beauty; Thou wast begot; to get it is thy duty.
- Juicy. 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, Book Two, Canto XII, Stanza 56, edited by Erik Gray, Hackett, 2006, p. 214, In her left hand a Cup of gold she held, And with her right the riper fruit did reach, Whose sappy liquor, that with fulnesse sweld, Into her cup she scruzd, with daintie breach Of he
- Spongy; Having spaces in which large quantities of sap can flow. In flush-framing if is observable, that the failure of all timber in old buildings has commenced much sooner than they otherwise would have done, owing to the sappy wood being at the corners of the principal beams, which soon decays, as its spongy quality attracts the moisture; whereas the heart, es
sappy²
Where it comes from
Compare Latin sapere (“to taste”).
adjective more sappy · most sappy · sapy
- Musty; tainted; rancid. sappie or unsavourie flesh
