Define the word sappy"Sappy" gcide "The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48"
Sappy \Sap"py\, a. [Written also sapy.] [Cf. L. sapere to
taste.]
Musty; tainted. [Obs.]
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"Sappy" gcide "The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48"
Sappy \Sap"py\, a. [Compar. Sappier; superl. Sappiest.]
[From 1st Sap.]
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1. Abounding with sap; full of sap; juicy; succulent.
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2. Hence, young, not firm; weak, feeble.
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When he had passed this weak and sappy age.
--Hayward.
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3. Weak in intellect. [Low]
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4. (Bot.) Abounding in sap; resembling, or consisting largely
of, sapwood.
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"sappy" wn "WordNet (r) 2.0"
sappy
adj 1: pungent adjectives of disesteem; "gave me a cockamamie
reason for not going"; "wore a goofy hat"; "a silly
idea"; "some wacky plan for selling more books" [syn:
cockamamie, cockamamy, goofy, silly, wacky,
whacky, zany, unreasonable]
2: abounding in sap; "sappy maple trees"; "sappy kindling wood"
[also: sappiest, sappier]
"sappy" moby-thes "Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0"
121 Moby Thesaurus words for "sappy":
absurd, apish, asinine, balmy, bathetic, batty, beery, befooled,
beguiled, besotted, brainless, budding, buffoonish, callow,
cloying, cockeyed, crazy, credulous, daffy, daft, dazed, dewy,
dizzy, doting, drippy, dumb, fantastic, fatuitous, fatuous, flaky,
flowing, fluent, fluid, fluidal, fluidic, fluxible, fluxile,
fluxional, fluxionary, fond, fool, foolheaded, foolish, fuddled,
futile, gaga, gooey, goofy, green, growing, gulled, gushing,
harebrained, idiotic, imbecile, immature, impubic, inane, inept,
inexperienced, infatuated, ingenuous, innocent, insane, intact,
juicy, kooky, liquid, liquidy, loony, mad, maudlin, mawkish, minor,
moronic, mushy, naive, namby-pamby, new-fledged, nostalgic,
nostomanic, nutty, oversentimental, oversentimentalized,
preposterous, raw, ripening, romantic, runny, screwy, senseless,
sentimental, sentimentalized, silly, sloppy, slushy, soft, soppy,
soupy, sticky, stupid, succulent, tear-jerking, teary, tender,
thoughtless, unadult, underage, undeveloped, unfledged, unformed,
unlicked, unmellowed, unripe, unseasoned, vernal, virginal, wacky,
watery, wet, witless
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