Sappy

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Sappy \Sap"py\, a. [Written also {sapy}.] [Cf. L. sapere to
     taste.]
     Musty; tainted. [Obs.]
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:



  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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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  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}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  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