English Dictionary

sappy

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈsæpi/

形容詞

アメリカ英語 廃用 木製

(US) Excessively sweet, emotional, nostalgic; cheesy; mushy. (British equivalent: soppy) / Having (a particularly large amount of) sap. / (obsolete) Juicy.

日本語の意味

過度に感傷的で甘ったるい、懐かしさや感情を強調しすぎている（cheesy、mushyのニュアンス） / （植物が）樹液を豊富に含む / (時代遅れ) ジューシーである

I couldn't help crying during the sappy movie, even though the plot was predictable.

その感傷的すぎる映画を観て、筋は予想通りだったのに私は泣かずにはいられなかった。

意味（1）

(US) Excessively sweet, emotional, nostalgic; cheesy; mushy. (British equivalent: soppy)

He was a good deal of a character, and much better company than the sappy literature he was selling.

意味（2）

Having (a particularly large amount of) sap.

‘Torches are made to light, jewels to wear, Dainties to taste, fresh beauty for the use, Herbs for their smell, and sappy plants to bear: Things growing to themselves are growth’s abuse: Seeds spring from seeds and beauty breedeth beauty; Thou wast begot; to get it is thy duty.

意味（3）

(obsolete) Juicy.

In her left hand a Cup of gold she held, And with her right the riper fruit did reach, Whose sappy liquor, that with fulnesse sweld, Into her cup she scruzd, with daintie breach Of her fine fingers, without fowle empeach, That so faire winepresse made the wine more sweet:

意味（4）

(obsolete, of wood) Spongy; Having spaces in which large quantities of sap can flow.

In flush-framing if is observable, that the failure of all timber in old buildings has commenced much sooner than they otherwise would have done, owing to the sappy wood being at the corners of the principal beams, which soon decays, as its spongy quality attracts the moisture; whereas the heart, espescially of oak, will be as sound as the first day it was used.

sappier （ comparative ）

sappiest （ superlative ）