a. [f. SOP sb.1 or v. + -Y.]
† 1. Full of or containing sops. Obs.–0
1611. Cotgr., Offeux,… Soppie; or full of lumpes, or gobbets.
2. Soaked or saturated with water or rain; soft or thoroughly wet with moisture; drenched, sodden.
a. Of land, grass, etc.
1823. E. Moor, Suffolk Words, Sop. Soppy. Wet, boggy, swampy; applied to land.
1850. Dickens, Dav. Copp., iii. It [Yarmouth] looked rather spongey and soppy, I thought, as I carried my eye over the great dull waste.
1889. Jessopp, Coming of Friars, v. 211. The level of the street … is in some cases five or six feet below the soppy sod … within the old enclosures.
b. Of things.
1859. R. F. Burton, Centr. Afr., in Jrnl. Geogr. Soc., XXIX. 78. Clothes feel limp and damp, paper—soft and soppy by the loss of glazing—acts as a blotter.
1892. ‘H. S. Merriman,’ Slave of Lamp, xix. His … dress-clothes were clinging to him with a soppy hindrance.
3. Of the season or weather: Very wet or rainy.
1872. R. Heath, in Golden Hours, 22. May be…; as it ’s been so soppy, there ’ll be some [trout] catched to-day.
1891. Cent. Dict., s.v., A soppy day.
4. Sloppy, slovenly.
1899. Daily News, 12 Jan., 2/1. They may learn the fact, not in any of your foolish, soppy, theoretical ways, but in a hard, practical manner.
Soppy, obs. form of SOP v.
