different between soapier vs soapie

English

soapier

From soap +? -ie (“diminutive suffix”).

soapie (plural soapies)

(Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, informal) A soap opera.
- 1988, Gunther Kress, Communication and Culture, New South Wales University Press, page 177,
  The conventions include […] impossibly complicated interrelationships (most characters in soapies are either related or married or have slept together, and in celebrated instances, all three).
- 1994, Gaile McGregor, EcCentric Visions: Re Constructing Australia, page 187,
  In terms of its general mood, the average Australian soapie, in comparison with the American soap, is less intense, less subjective, and certainly a good deal less angst-ridden.

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