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Definition of sappy:

  • (adjective) ludicrous, foolish;
  • (adjective) abounding in sap; "sappy maple trees"; "sappy kindling wood"

Sentence Examples:

That long one is for the Great Woodpecker, the middle size is for Little Beaver, and the short thick one with the bump on the end and a crack on top is Sappy.

In applying the polish, which should be done immediately after oiling, the rubber should be made rather sappy with thin polish, and worked without oil.

Sappy read a paper, proving the impossibility of being able to see into the middle of next week, from known facts with regard to the equation of time.

Talking sappy to an endless stream of silly women, palming off on them such useless junk as this!

As she explained her lot in life Patsy was peeling and eating a sappy root of rush which she had plucked.

When a tree goes into the winter with sappy wood, it is injured, and we say it is not hardy.

Tree growth was thus pushed on into late fall; the trees were too sappy to stand the winter freezes and suffered from winter killing.

To cut or break the sappy stems and foliage would be only to court prompt disaster without the use of adequate poison masks.

The marks of the knife were still fresh upon it, the bark so soft and sappy that it must have been cut from the living plant within the hour.

You are in love and are mighty sappy just at present, but you'll come round all right; yes, sir, all right after a while.

In a few minutes out he came to join his brothers or sisters who were already feasting on young sappy trees.

Green and thick and sappy to the touch, they felt like summer, soft and elastic, as if full of life, mere rushes though they were.

It has been observed to be most marked in its effects upon those sorts of trees that make the most vigorous and sappy growth, and those which continue to grow late in the season.

There will be too many of them, they will not get light enough, their growth will be weak and sappy, and they will not form fruit buds.

She has proved herself to have been honestly put together of seasoned timber, and not of sappy rubbish.

Failing these measures, the sappy one gave it as his professional opinion that the leg would look like an interrogation point.

There was also enough of stones to keep the ground warm, according to the creed of some farmers, and great abundance of springs to render it cool and sappy, according to the theory of others.

If food is obtained in abundance, as is the case when the host is a tree of a soft and sappy nature, the growth is rather rapid; but otherwise the development is comparatively slow.

We have met with some of these false sappy part of trees which are thicker on one side than the other, and which surprisingly agrees with the most general state of the sap.

In the April of each year, cut out all weak sappy growths, and, in the case of hybrid perpetuals, cut back to about eight inches from the surface of the ground the strong shoots which remain.

The rough bark caressed her hot cheek and the sweet sappy aroma entered her soul and soothed it.

The more pleasure it gives me, Sir, to find James Burbage's sappy virtues flourishing in the young wood, and by the branch be reminded of the noble stock.

Although the parts of machines such as agricultural implements are usually made of selected and well-seasoned timber, it sometimes happens that portions of the work are found to be more or less sappy.

The air was still and soft, but heavy with the sappy scent from the damp grass land down the creek.

Their fingers were stained and sticky from touching buds and crushing young sappy leaves and grass stalks.

Obtain a clear plank twelve inches wide, well seasoned, and free from knots or sappy places.

And if we don't hurry we may never get back to boast about things here to our sappy friends at home.

He was a good deal of a character, and much better company than the sappy literature he was selling.