Sappy

Definition: Sappy

Sappy

Adjective

1. (informal terms) "gave me a cockamamie reason for not going"; "wore a goofy hat"; "a silly idea"; "some wacky plan for selling more books".

2. Abounding in sap; "sappy maple trees"; "sappy kindling wood".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "sappy" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1593. (references)

Synonyms: Sappy

Fluidity

Adjective: liquid, fluid, serous, juicy, succulent, sappy; ichorous; fluent. (flowing).

Imbecility Folly

Shallow, borne, weak, wanting, soft, sappy, spoony; dull, dull as a beetle; stupid, heavy, insulse, obtuse, blunt, stolid, doltish; asinine; inapt; prosaic; hebetudinous.

Youth

Adjective: young, youthful, juvenile, green, callow, budding, sappy, puisne, beardless, under age, in one's teens; in statu pupillari; younger, junior; hebetic, unfledged.

Crosswords: Sappy

Sappy as always (Beast Wars: Transformers; writing credit: Bob Forward; Lawrence G. DiTillio)

Some big hard-boiled egg gets a look at a pretty face and bang--he cracks up and goes sappy. (King Kong; writing credit: Merian C. Cooper; Edgar Wallace)

At sappy old movies you've seen hundreds of times (I Love The Way You Love Me; performing artist: John Michael Montgomery)

Sappy New Year (1961)

Space Ship Sappy (1957)

Income Tax Sappy (1954)

Sappy Pappy (1942)

Three Sappy People (1939)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Music

• Sad Sappy Sucker (reference)

• Sappy Songs for Summer Nights (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Beginning with "sappy": sappy-wood.

Albanian

plotë lëng, i njomë (dabby, damp, dampish, dampy, dank, delicate, dewy, fresh, humid, milch, moist, muggy, new, poachy, saturated, wet, young). (various references)

Arabic 

‏كثير النسغ, ‏أخضر (green, verdant). (various references)

Bulgarian 

сочен (juicy, lush, mellow, succulent), сантиментален (corny, mushy, namby-pamby, sentimental, soupy), глупав (anserine, asinine, blackhearted, blithering, blockish, blunt, brainless, cockscomb, crass, daft, dense, dim witted, dopey, dopy, dozy, fat, fatuous, flat-footed, fool, foolish, footless, footling, goofy, hebetate, inane, inept, irrational, lame brain, lumpish, lunatic, mindless, mutton-headed, nonsensical, off one's nut, piffling, puddingy, puerile, purblind, senseless, silly, simple, slow witted, stockish, stupid, thick, thick-skulled, thick-witted, tomfool, trumpery, unintelligent, unwise, vacant, vacuous, whacked, witless, wooden-headed), мекушав (effeminate, unmanly, womanish), жизнен (full of life, full-blooded, gut, key, live, lively, lusty, pithy, sturdy, vital, vivacious), пълен с енергия. (various references)

Farsi 

پرشهد, معتادبه مشروبات , مرطوب (Humid, Moist, Muggy, Soppy, Wet), کودن (Backward, Birdbrain, Cockeyed, Crass, Doddering, Dull, Dunce, Lug, Slight, Slow, Unapt, Unintelligent), ضعیف (Anemic, Atonic, Infirm, Languid, Lean, Light, Puny, Pusillanimous, Rickety, Shaky, Slack, Slender, Weak), خیلی احساساتی , ابدان , شنگول (Sprightly). (various references)

French

vert, truculent, plein de sève (sapping). (various references)

German

saftig (fruity, hefty, juicily, juicy, luscious, lush, lushly, mellow, potent, sappily, succulent, succulently, walloping). (various references)

Greek 

χυμώδησ (chymous, juicy, luscious, squashy), εύχυμοσ (lush, sapid, succulent), ανόητοσ (blithering, daft, fatuous, fool, foolish, goofy, idiot, inane, inept, insensate, insipient, knighterrantry, ninny, nitwit, nonsensical, senseless, silly, slap happy, unwise, witless), αδύνατοσ (feeble, flimsy, frail, impossible, impotent, languishing, languorous, puny, sinewless, sleazy, slender, slimsy, softy, strengthless, thin, underdog, underfed, wan, washy, weak). (various references)

Hebrew 

מלא חיות, שוט�" (barmy, brainless, daft, dolt, dupe, fool, idiot, imbecile, noodle, oaf, silly, stupid). (various references)

Hungarian

nedvdús (lush, succulent), lüke (dumbo, fumbler, nut, nutter), ütődött (balmy, crackpot, dippy, loopy, moonstruck, numb-skull, numskull, pixilated, ratty, woody), életerős (beany, ebullient, full-blood, living, lusty, rugged, vigorous). (various references)

Indonesian

kecengengan (bathetic, bathos). (various references)

Italian

succoso (juicily, juicy, lushly, mellow). (various references)

Manx

sooagh (absorbent, absorbing, aspiratory, juicy, succulent, suctorial), lane soo (juicy), glass (ashen, ashen colour, bond, callow of youth; trigger, callow; trigger, green, green of nature, grey, grey of animal, iron; lock, pale, pasty, raw, soft, stream, unfledged, verdant). (various references)

Pig Latin

appysay.(various references)

Portuguese

suculento (fleshy, juicy, luscious, lush, pappy, pulpy, succulent, tender, tops), sem experiência (unfleshed, unpractised, unseasoned, unskilled), viçoso (fresh, lush, rank, verdant, youthful), cheio de seiva, cheio de energia (sanguineous, vital, zippy). (various references)

Russian 

сочный (goluptious, juicy, lush, mellow, pulpy, succulent). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

sočan (juicy, luscious, lush, mellow, pulpy, succulent). (various references)

Spanish

suculento (juicily, juicy, luscious, lush, lushly, succulent), sensiblero (maudlin, mushy, sentimental, soppy, sugared, sugary, twee), tontuelo, lleno de savia. (various references)

Swedish

savfull, saftig (fruity, juicy, lush, racy, spicy, succulent). (various references)

Turkish

yaş (age, dank, humid, wet, winter, year), kuvvetli (Doughty, energetic, forceful, heady, healty, hearty, intense, lusty, mighty, muscular, potent, powered, powerful, retentive, robust, rugged, sinewed, sinewy, sound, stalwart, stout, strong, swinging, tenacious, vigorous, virile, virulent), canlı (active, alive, animate, animated, beany, breezy, bright, brightly, brisk, bustling, colorful, colourful, Corky, crisp, crispy, dashing, dewy, driving, exhilarated, expressive, exuberant, feeling, fresh, full of beans, full of life, gay, genially, ginger, gingery, glowing, go-go, graphic, graphical, hearty, humming, in the flesh, inspired, life, live, lively, living, living being, living creature, lusty, mercurial, mettled, mettlesome, peppy, perky, picturesque, quick, racy, rich, rousing, saturated, smart, snappy, spirited, sprightly, springy, swinging, vibrant, vital, vivacious, vivid, warm, with it, zippy), budala (barren, chucklehead, chumpish, clod, clownish, doltish, dreary, dullish, fool, jackass, juggins, noddy, noodle, prune, simple simon, soft, twit, zany), ahmak (addled, ass, blockhead, boob, bumpkin, cabbagehead, chucklehead, chumpish, clot, country bumpkin, crass, cretin, deadly dull, dimwitted, dolt, doltish, dreary, dullish, dumb bell, dunderhead, dunderheaded, fathead, fool, foolish, gander, gawk, gawky, goat, goof, goose, greenhorn, Gubbins, half wit, half-witted, hayseed, idiot, jackass, jerk, josser, kookaburra, light in the head, loon, lummox, lump, muggins, mutt, mutton head, noddy, numskull, prune, pudding-head, sap, saphead, schlepper, simp, soft, stupid, twerp), özlü (brief, capsule, compact, concise, juicy, laconic, lapidary, loamy, lush, meaty, pithy, pulpy, racy, sententious, starchy, substantial, succinct, succulent, terse). (various references)

Ukrainian

соковитий (battle, goluptious, juicy, lush, pulpy, succulent), слабохарактерний (fibreless, flabby, flaccid, pulpy), сповнений сил, дурний (anserine, asinine, balmy, bat-minded, bovine, cloddish, cracked, daft, dense, fatuous, featherbrained, fool, foolish, gawky, goofy, harebrained, idle-headed, mindless, mutton-headed, nonsensical, oafish, obtuse, opaque, owlish, pigheaded, sottish, spoony, stockish, stupid, thoughtless). (various references)

Vietnamese 

ngớ ngẩn (anserine, blunder, dotty, dumb, muddle-headed, muddy-headed, sap-headed, sillily, silly), ngốc nghếch (dunderheaded, fatuous, fat-witted, half-baked, half-witted, sap-headed, slap-happy), khù khờ (sap-headed), đầy sức sống (animated, lifeful, lusty), đầy nhựa đầy nhựa sống. (various references)

Welsh

noddlyd (juicy), gordeimladwy (overly sentimental). (various references)

Misspellings

"Sappy" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: appy, Aspey, Iapyx, ls-api, Mappy, rappy, sanpy, sapey, saph, Sapi, sapoy, sapp, Sappi, sappo, seppa, seppo, slappy, zappy. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: paps, pays, pyas, spay, yaps.

-2 letters: asp, ays, pap, pas, pay, pya, sap, say, spa, spy, yap.

-3 letters: as, ay, pa, ya.

+1 letter: snappy.

+2 letters: maypops, papayas, papyrus, prepays, sappily, scrappy, yappers.

+3 letters: apospory, misapply, pansophy, papistry, platypus, playpens, snappily.

+4 letters: apophyges, apophyses, apophysis, dyspepsia, flypapers, hypopneas, mayapples, paperboys, papyruses, pattypans, polyphase, polypneas, popinjays, scrappily, slaphappy.

+5 letters: apocalypse, apophyseal, appositely, dyspepsias, epiphyseal, epiphysial, episcopacy, gypsophila, haplotypes, hyperopias, hyperpneas, hyperspace, hypoplasia, paranymphs, paraphyses, paraphysis, photoplays, platypuses, polydipsia, polygraphs, polyparies, polyphasic, poppyheads, porphyrias, presbyopia, psychopath, sandpapery, saprophyte, snappishly, supposably, typographs.