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tappy
English
Etymology 1
tap +? -y
Adjective
tappy (comparative more tappy, superlative most tappy)
- Resembling a tapping sound.
- a tappy noise
Etymology 2
See tappish.
Verb
tappy (third-person singular simple present tappies, present participle tappying, simple past and past participle tappied)
- (obsolete) to lie close to the ground; to lie low or skulk
References
- OED 2nd edition 1989.
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sappy
English
Etymology 1
From Middle English sappy, sapy, from Old English sæpi? (“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.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?sæpi/
- Rhymes: -æpi
Adjective
sappy (comparative sappier, superlative sappiest)
- (US) Excessively sweet, emotional, nostalgic; cheesy; mushy. (British equivalent: soppy)
- 1883, Mark Twain, Life on the Mississippi, Part 5, Chapter 23,[1]
- He was a good deal of a character, and much better company than the sappy literature he was selling.
- 1943, Sinclair Lewis, Gideon Planish, Chapter 23,[2]
- To himself, already beginning to resent the new employer as all that morning he had been resenting the old one, Dr. Planish groaned, “He’s getting saintly on me! A careerist in holiness! I'll never be happy till I've got an organization where I’m sole boss—unless it’s one run by a fellow like Colonel Marduc, who has real brains and power—and cash!—and not a lot of sappy sentimentality like Vesper or psychopathic malice like Sneaky Sandy—Oh dear!”
- It was a sappy love song, but it reminded them of their first dance.
- 1883, Mark Twain, Life on the Mississippi, Part 5, Chapter 23,[1]
- Having (a particularly large amount of) sap.
- 1593, William Shakespeare, Venus and Adonis,[3]
- ‘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.
- 1842, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, “Amphion,”[4]
- But these, tho’ fed with careful dirt,
Are neither green nor sappy;
Half-conscious of the garden-squirt,
The spindlings look unhappy,
- But these, tho’ fed with careful dirt,
- 1887, Thomas Hardy, The Woodlanders, Chapter 24,[5]
- The sappy green twig-tips of the season’s growth would not, she thought, be appreciably woodier on the day she became a wife, so near was the time; the tints of the foliage would hardly have changed.
- 1976, Kurt Vonnegut, Slapstick, Delacorte Press, Chapter 8, p. 61,
- As always, there was a fizzing, popping blaze of pine and sappy apple logs in the fireplace.
- 1593, William Shakespeare, Venus and Adonis,[3]
- (obsolete) 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 her fine fingers, without fowle empeach,
- That so faire winepresse made the wine more sweet:
- 1693, François Rabelais, Gargantua and Pantagruel, Book III, (1546), translated by Thomas Urquhart, Chapter 18,[6]
- The words of the third article are: She will suck me at my best end. Why not? That pleaseth me right well. You know the thing; I need not tell you that it is my intercrural pudding with one end. I swear and promise that, in what I can, I will preserve it sappy, full of juice, and as well victualled for her use as may be.
- 1717, Ovid, Metamorphoses, translated by John Dryden, London: J. and R. Tonson, 4th edition, 1736, Book I, pp. 21-22,[7]
- The Stones (a Miracle to Mortal View,
- But long Tradition makes it pass for true)
- Did first the Rigour of their Kind expell,
- And suppled into softness as they fell;
- Then swell’d, and swelling, by degrees grew warm;
- And took the Rudiments of human Form.
- Imperfect Shapes: in Marble such are seen,
- When the rude Chizzel does the Man begin;
- While yet the roughness of the Stone remains,
- Without the rising Muscles, and the Veins.
- The sappy parts, and next resembling juice,
- Were turn’d to moisture, for the Body’s use:
- Supplying humours, blood and nourishment;
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, Book Two, Canto XII, Stanza 56, edited by Erik Gray, Hackett, 2006, p. 214,
- (obsolete, of wood) Spongy; Having spaces in which large quantities of sap can flow.
Derived terms
- sappily
- sappiness
Translations
Etymology 2
Compare Latin sapere (“to taste”).
Alternative forms
- sapy
Adjective
sappy (comparative more sappy, superlative most sappy)
- (obsolete) Musty; tainted; rancid.
- 1580, Barret in V. Restie, Alv. 1580
- sappie or unsavourie flesh
- 1783, Lemon's Etymological Dictionary
- Sapy [denotes] a moisture contracted on the outward surface of meats, which is the first stage of dissolution.
- 1580, Barret in V. Restie, Alv. 1580
Anagrams
- appys, paspy, yapps
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