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Sappy vs Slappy - What's the difference?

sappy | slappy |

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)
  • (US) Excessively sweet, emotional, nostalgic; cheesy; mushy. (British equivalent: soppy)
    • It was a sappy love song, but it reminded them of their first dance.
  • Having sap or having to do with sap.

    • Etymology 2

    Compare (etyl) sapere to taste.

    Alternative forms

    * sapy

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (obsolete) musty; tainted
    • (Webster 1913)

    slappy

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • 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
    • 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.
  • * 2009 , Elisabeth Hyde, In the Heart of the Canyon - Page 55
    • Jill had Mark apply sunscreen to her back.
  • *:"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.

    • Noun

    (slappies)
  • (skateboarding) A grind on a curb without doing an ollie.