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Sappy  adj.  (compar. sappier; superl. sappiest)  
1.
Abounding with sap; full of sap; juicy; succulent.
2.
Hence, young, not firm; weak, feeble. "When he had passed this weak and sappy age."
3.
Weak in intellect. (Low)
4.
(Bot.) Abounding in sap; resembling, or consisting largely of, sapwood.





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"Sappy" Quotes from Famous Books



... night. The katydids and an occasional cricket were the only sounds Rob could hear as he stood beside his team and strained his ear to listen. At long intervals a little breeze ran through the corn like a swift serpent, bringing to the nostrils the sappy smell of the growing corn. The horses stamped uneasily as the mosquitoes settled on their shining limbs. The sky was full of stars, but there ...
— Main-Travelled Roads • Hamlin Garland
... spectators through all the strange events of the morning, were now in comfortable seclusion, resting till it should be counted a safe time to go about their affairs. Some were sleeping, or gnawing on sappy willow sticks, in the spacious chamber of their house, while others were in the deeper and more secret retreats of their two burrows high up in the bank, connecting with the main house by roomy tunnels partly filled with water. The two families were quite independent of each other, except ...
— The House in the Water - A Book of Animal Stories • Charles G. D. Roberts
... spirit, and very fond of his horses, which were the most beautiful creatures of their kind that had been seen in all the country side. Coming, as I was noting, to see his new lands, he was obliged to pass through the clachan one day, when all the middens were gathered out, reeking and sappy, in the middle of the causey. Just as his lordship was driving in with his prancing steeds, like a Jehu, at one end of the vennel, a long string of loaded coal-carts came in at the other, and there ...
— The Annals of the Parish • John Galt
... girl below remained disdainfully indifferent. She dug, she clipped, she explored, inhaling, with little thrills, the faint mounting odour of forest loam and sappy stems. ...
— Ailsa Paige • Robert W. Chambers
... I ask myself! Why was I such a sappy as not to hurry here the first day I set foot on shore! Well, who'd have thought it—you ...
— A Changed Man and Other Tales • Thomas Hardy


Words linked to "Sappy" :   silly, wacky, foolish, whacky, juicy, zany, colloquialism, cockamamy, goofy


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