Usually means: Excessively sentimental or emotional expression.
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We found 29 dictionaries that define the word sappy:

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  1. sappy: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. sappy: Merriam-Webster
  3. sappy: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. sappy: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. sappy: Collins English Dictionary
  6. sappy: Vocabulary.com
  7. Sappy, sappy: Wordnik
  8. sappy: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. sappy: Wiktionary
  10. sappy: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. sappy: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. sappy: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. sappy: Dictionary.com
  14. sappy: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. Sappy (EP), Sappy (song), Sappy: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Sappy: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. sappy: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. sappy: Rhymezone
  19. Sappy: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. sappy: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. SAPPY: Dictionary of Americanisms (1848)
  22. sappy: FreeDictionary.org
  23. sappy: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. sappy: TheFreeDictionary.com
  25. sappy: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

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  1. sappy: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
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Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. sappy: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

(Note: See sappier as well.)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
sappy
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American English Definition British English Definition
▸ adjective:  (US) Excessively sweet, emotional, nostalgic; cheesy; mushy. (British equivalent: soppy)
▸ adjective:  Having (a particularly large amount of) sap.
▸ adjective:  (obsolete) Juicy.
▸ adjective:  (obsolete, of wood) Spongy; Having spaces in which large quantities of sap can flow.
▸ adjective:  (obsolete) Musty; tainted; rancid.

Similar:
wacky, goofy, zany, foolish, cockamamy, silly, fool, juicy, cockamamie, unreasonable, more...

Opposite:
unsentimental, pragmatic, realistic, practical, level-headed

Types:
sap, resin, gum, latex, pitch, more...

Phrases:
Sad Sappy Sucker, more...

Colors:
    pale pink,     baby blue,     lavender,     mint green,     peach, more...

↻From "Waring" by Robert Browning:

Of March he wanders as, too happy,
Years ago when he was young,
Some mild eve when woods grew sappy
And the early moths had sprung
1 of 15 verses

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Similar:
wacky, goofy, zany, foolish, cockamamy, silly, fool, juicy, cockamamie, unreasonable, more...

Opposite:
unsentimental, pragmatic, realistic, practical, level-headed

Types:
sap, resin, gum, latex, pitch, more...

Phrases:
Sad Sappy Sucker, more...

Colors:
    pale pink,     baby blue,     lavender,     mint green,     peach, more...



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