a. [f. SOUP sb.] Like soup; having the appearance or consistency of soup.
1842. Brooklyn Daily Eagle, 25 June, 2/5. Snap may, possibly, have committed some trifling peccadillo, and selected, pro tem., a soupy asylum.
1872. Jean Ingelow, Off Skelligs, xiv. We had a very thick fog … directly after the thunderstorm—a soupy fog.
1888. Jacobi, Printers’ Vocab., 128. Soupy.—A term of disparagement applied to thin or poor ink.
1890. Miss Broughton, in Temple Bar, Aug., 449–50. Sybilla is eating or drinking something of a soupy nature.
1895. G. Meredith, Amazing Marriage, xxxviii. Stir us to the depths, it will be found that we are poor soupy stuff.
