See Also: sappy(medicine)
sappy(dictionary)
sappy(dictionary)

sappy (iou)



sappy adjective. ['sapi] LOE.
[from SAP noun1 + -Y1.]
Of a plant, tree, wood, etc.: full of sap. LOE.
b. Consisting of or containing sapwood. obsolete exc. dial. LME.
Full of moisture; wet. Also (obsolete exc. dial.), (of meat, fruit, etc.) juicy, succulent. LME.
Full of vitality, young and vigorous. Also, full of goodness, substantial. M16.
F. R. Leavis The Portrait of a Lady belongs to the sappiest phase of James's art.
Fat, plump. Now Austral. (esp. of livestock) & dial. L17.
Foolish, silly, soppy. colloq. L17.
J. Irving The passage about the 'gleams of sunshine'okay, it's sappy.
sappily adverb L17.
sappiness noun M16.