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Soapier vs Soapie - What's the difference?

soapier | soapie |

As an adjective soapier

is comparative of soapy.

As a noun soapie is

a soap opera.

soapier

English

Adjective

(head)
  • (soapy)

    • soapy

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • resembling soap
    • ''A soapy taste.
  • resembling a soap opera
  • full of soap
    • ''soapy water
  • covered in soap
    • ''His skin was still soapy after the shower.

    soapie

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, informal) A soap opera.
  • * 1988 , Gunther Kress, Communication and Culture , New South Wales University Press, page 177,
    • The conventions includeimpossibly complicated interrelationships (most characters in soapies are either related or married or have slept together, and in celebrated instances, all three).
  • * 1994 , Gaile McGregor, EcCentric Visions: Re Constructing Australia , page 187,
    • In terms of its general mood, the average Australian soapie , in comparison with the American soap, is less intense, less subjective, and certainly a good deal less angst-ridden.
  • * {{quote-news, year=2009, date=March 28, author=Amanda Meade, title=Seven censors lesbian kiss, work=Herald Sun citation
    • , passage=CHANNEL 7 has censored a lesbian kissing scene in its popular family soapie Home and Away after a viewer backlash. }}

    Synonyms

    * soap (US)

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