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sappier

sappier is the comparative form of sappy.

Meaning of sappy

Adjective (1)

sappy (comparative sappier, superlative sappiest)

  1. (US) 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.1883, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], chapter 23, in Life on the Mississippi, Boston, Mass.: James R[ipley] Osgood and Company, →OCLC
  2. 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.1593, [William Shakespeare], Venus and Adonis, London: […] Richard Field, […], →OCLC
    Synonyms:
    sapful
  3. (obsolete) Juicy.
    • 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:1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, Book Two, Canto XII, Stanza 56, edited by Erik Gray, Hackett, 2006, p. 214
  4. (obsolete) 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...1816, George Gregory, A Dictionary of Arts and Sciences - Volume 3, page 5
    Synonyms:
    spongelike

Adjective (2)

sappy (comparative more sappy, superlative most sappy)

  1. (obsolete) Musty; tainted; rancid.
    • sappie or unsavourie flesh1580, Barret in V. Restie, Alv. 1580

Questions about sappier

What is sappier the comparative form of?
Sappier is the comparative form of sappy.

Words near sappier in the dictionary

  1. sapphites
  2. Sappho
  3. sapphyrin
  4. sapphyrins
  5. sappie
  6. sappier
  7. sappies
  8. sappiest
  9. sappily
  10. sappiness
  11. sapping

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