soppy

Etymology

sop + y

adj

1. Very wet; sodden, soaked.
   'Goodness me!' said I to myself, 'whatever will become of sister's white satin shoes, if she has to walk about on soppy grass after such rain as this?' 1865, Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, Wives and Daughters, Chapter I
2. (figurative) Overly sentimental, maudlin, schmaltzy.
   "[…] It's unfortunate, if I happen to look like what pleased some soppy old Greek sculptor, but I assure you that if it weren't for my face I'd be a quiet nun in the convent without"—then she broke into a run and her raised voice floated back to him as he followed—"my precious babies, which I must go back and see." 1920, F. Scott Fitzgerald, chapter //dummy.host/index.php?title=s%3Aen%3AThis+Side+of+Paradise%2FBook+One%2FChapter+4 4, in This Side of Paradise, volume 1