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sappest | sapfest |

As a verb sappest

is (archaic) (sap).

As a noun sapfest is

(informal|pejorative) something sentimental or sappy, especially a movie.

sappest

English

Verb

(head)
  • (archaic) (sap)

    • sap

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) sap, from (etyl) ), from *''sap 'to taste'. More at sage.

    Noun

    (wikipedia sap)
  • (uncountable) The juice of plants of any kind, especially the ascending and descending juices or circulating fluid essential to nutrition.
  • (uncountable) The sap-wood, or alburnum, of a tree.
  • (slang, countable) A simpleton; a saphead; a milksop; a naive person.
    • Derived terms
    (terms derived from sap) * crude sap * elaborated sap * sap ball * sap green * saphead * sapling * sap poison * sap rot * sapsucker * sap tube

    Etymology 2

    Probably from sapling.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (countable, US, slang) A short wooden club; a leather-covered hand weapon; a blackjack.
    • (rfimage)

    Verb

    (sapp)
  • (slang) To strike with a sap (with a blackjack).

    • Etymology 3

    From (etyl) saper (compare Spanish zapar and Italian zappare) from .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (military) A narrow ditch or trench made from the foremost parallel toward the glacis or covert way of a besieged place by digging under cover of gabions, etc.
    • Derived terms
    * sap fagot * sap roller * sapper

    Verb

    (sapp)
  • To subvert by digging or wearing away; to mine; to undermine; to destroy the foundation of.
  • * (rfdate)
    • Nor safe their dwellings were, for sapped by floods, / Their houses fell upon their household gods.
  • (military) To pierce with saps.
  • To make unstable or infirm; to unsettle; to weaken.
  • * 1850 ,
    • Ring out the grief that saps the mind
  • To gradually weaken.
  • * to sap one’s conscience
  • To proceed by mining, or by secretly undermining; to execute saps — 12
  • * (rfdate)
    • Both assaults carried on by sapping .

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    sapfest

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (informal, pejorative) Something sentimental or sappy, especially a movie.
  • * 2003 , David Handler, The Bright Silver Star: A Berger and Mitry Mystery , St. Martin's Paperbacks (2004), ISBN 0312985789, page 100:
    • It sounded like a feel-good sapfest , the kind where exhibitors ought to post a sign at the box office reading Diabetics Enter at Own Risk.
  • * 2008 , Jim Norton, I Hate Your Guts , Simon Spotlight Entertainment (2008), ISBN 9781416587859, page 70:
    • Best Picture absolutely should have been Born on the Fourth of July'', not that sapfest ''Driving Miss Daisy .
  • * 2011 , Ernest Cline, Ready Player One , Crown Publishers (2011), ISBN 9780307887450, page 40:
    • “How many times have you seen that sapfest ? I know you've made me sit through it at least twice."
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