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Sappy

adjective

(compar. sappier; superl. sappiest)

Ludicrous, foolish. Synonyms: cockamamie, cockamamy, goofy, silly, wacky, whacky, zany. "Wore a goofy hat" , "A silly idea" , "Some wacky plan for selling more books"

Abounding in sap. "Sappy kindling wood"

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"Sappy" Quotes from Famous Books

... 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

... like huge withered leaves, hung bats, and from some of the trees the beard-moss hung yards long, and of a spectral gray; the very weeds trodden underfoot were sappy, and the smell of their squirting juice mixed itself with the ...

— The Pools of Silence • H. de Vere Stacpoole

... like the honest nappy; Whare'll ye e'er see men sae happy, Or women sonsie, saft an' sappy, 'Tween morn and morn, As them wha like to taste the drappie, ...

— Poems And Songs Of Robert Burns • Robert Burns

... is as necessary to man as to vegetation. You cannot have a rank, sappy race, like the English or the German, without plenty of moisture in the air and in the soil. Good viscera and an abundance of blood are closely related to meteorological conditions, unction of character, and a flow ...

— Locusts and Wild Honey • John Burroughs

... propitious heard; "Her final prayer at least success obtain'd: "For as she spoke rose round her legs the earth; "The lofty tree's foundation, crooked roots "Shot from her spreading toes; hard wood her bones "Became; the marrow in the midst remain'd "As pith; as sappy juice still flow'd her blood: "Her arms large boughs were spread; her fingers chang'd "To slender twigs; rough bark her skin became. "The growing tree press'd hard the gravid womb; "Invested next her breast, ...

— The Metamorphoses of Publius Ovidus Naso in English blank verse Vols. I & II • Ovid

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