soppy

Adjective

soppy (comparative soppier, superlative soppiest)

1. Very wet; sodden, soaked.
   • Yarmouth […] looked rather spongy and soppy, I thought, as I carried my eye over the great dull waste that lay across the river; and I could not help wondering, if the world were really as round as my geography book said, how any part of it came to be so flat.1849 May – 1850 November, Charles Dickens, The Personal History of David Copperfield, London: Bradbury & Evans, […], published 1850, →OCLC
   • 'Goodness me!' said I to myself, 'whatever will become of sister's white satin shoes, if she has to walk about on soppy grass after such rain as this?'1865, Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, Wives and Daughters, Chapter I

   Synonyms:

   drenched, soggy, waterlogged, bewatered, damp, dripping, drunk, humid, irriguous, madid

2. (figuratively, informal) Overly sentimental, maudlin, schmaltzy.
   • Listen, those men will only turn soppy and puppy-dog eyed as soon as your turn to leave.
   • "[…] It's unfortunate, if I happen to look like what pleased some soppy old Greek sculptor, but I assure you that if it weren't for my face I'd be a quiet nun in the convent without"—then she broke into a run and her raised voice floated back to him as he followed—"my precious babies, which I must...1920, F. Scott Fitzgerald, chapter 4, in This Side of Paradise, volume 1

   Synonyms:

   mushy, sappy, treacly, bathetic, cheesy, squishy, corny, drippy, gooey, hokey