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soapy

adjective

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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /ˈsəʊpi/ / /ˈsoʊpi/

adj

Etymology: From soap + -y. Compare German Low German sepig (“soapy”), German seifig (“soapy”), Swedish såpig (“soapy”).

  1. Literal senses:

    “Bases dissolve skin oils and have a soapy feel to them.”

  2. Literal senses:

    “Near-synonym: soaped up”

    “The dishwasher uses hot soapy water to clean the dishes and silverware.”

  3. Literal senses:

    “His skin was still soapy after the shower.”

  4. Resembling a soap opera.

    “The heightened worlds of darkly comedic satire and soapy high-school romance make it easy enough to roll with unrealistic casting choices—and that goes for stage musicals, too, where some level of artifice is built into the format.”

    “This Diana-obsessed series is the very definition of bad writing. Despite the brilliant cast, it’s a crass, soapy dive into the abyss – not least in the atrocious scenes featuring Ghost Diana[.]”

  5. Committing or involving flattery.

noun

Etymology: From soap + -y. Compare German Low German sepig (“soapy”), German seifig (“soapy”), Swedish såpig (“soapy”).

  1. An erotic massage that involves lots of soap and body contact.