soapy

adj
/ˈsəʊpi/UK/ˈsoʊpi/US

Etymology

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

  1. derived from *seyb-
  2. inherited from *saipǭ
  3. inherited from *saipā
  4. inherited from sāpe — “soap, salve
  5. inherited from sope
  6. suffixed as soapy — “soap + y

Definitions

  1. Literal senses

    Literal senses:

    • Bases dissolve skin oils and have a soapy feel to them.
  2. 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[.]
  3. Committing or involving flattery.

  4. + 1 more definition
    1. An erotic massage that involves lots of soap and body contact.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at soapy. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at soapy. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

5 hops · closes at soapy

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA