Sappy vs Slappy - What's the difference?
sappy | slappy |
(US) Excessively sweet, emotional, nostalgic; cheesy; mushy. (British equivalent: soppy)
Having sap or having to do with sap.
Resembling a slap, especially of sound.
* 1855 , Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass
*:Where the laughing-gull scoots by the slappy shore and laughs her near-human laugh
* 1963 , Delphin Rose Adsett, A magpie sings
*:Katy thought about the damp yellow bodies which often landed, with a slappy sound in a burst of moisture and steam rose off them because they were parted from the warmth of their mothers.
* 1998 , Dan Gelo, Fiddle Tunes & Irish Music for Mandolin - Page 11
* 2009 , Elisabeth Hyde, In the Heart of the Canyon - Page 55
*:"Bet these river guides get a lot of skin cancer", he said. He had a slappy , unpleasant way of doing it, and she struggled to keep her balance.
(skateboarding) A grind on a curb without doing an ollie.
As adjectives the difference between sappy and slappy
is that sappy is (us) excessively sweet, emotional, nostalgic; cheesy; mushy (british equivalent: soppy) or sappy can be (obsolete) musty; tainted while slappy is resembling a slap, especially of sound.As a noun slappy is
(skateboarding) a grind on a curb without doing an ollie.sappy
English
Etymology 1
Adjective
(er)- It was a sappy love song, but it reminded them of their first dance.
Etymology 2
Compare (etyl) sapere to taste.Alternative forms
* sapyslappy
English
Adjective
(er)- Thin picks flex too much and make your wrist work overtime, plus they tend to produce a slappy tone. Those heavy picks popular with today's bluegrass mandolinists are really too stiff for playing the rapid triplets in some Irish tunes.
- Jill had Mark apply sunscreen to her back.