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Definition of sappy:

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

Sentence Examples:

This skunk of a John Gaspar gets Sally all tied up with his sappy talk.

Sappy was not an athlete nor an intellectual giant, but his little piggy eyes were wonderfully sharp and clear.

Asked Sappy one day, confidently expecting to have his keen eyesight praised.

The grotesque, which was one expression of this sappy vigor, was abhorrent to Addison.

A handsome old boy he was, ruddy, hale, with the zest of a juicy old apple, slightly withered but still sappy.

In the walnut and other sappy trees, however, the splice graft out on the small limbs did better.

The new gate was of solid oak, no "sappy" stuff, real heart of oak, well-seasoned, without a split, fine, close-grained timber, cut on the farm, and kept till it was thoroughly fit, genuine English oak.

Why the little girl wanted her I could never understand, because she had no expression at all, and my young friend had a brother who had declared that if any more "sappy wax dummies" were brought into the house, he would put them to bed in the oven.

I call them trees for the bigness, but in truth they were just big weeds, and sappy to cut through like carrot.

There is so much water in green wood that a sappy pole will soon sink when set afloat.

The air was growing hotter and hotter, the insects became very troublesome, and as time went on and the incisions they had made in the sappy wood were still very shallow, both felt very much discouraged.

She had been with her beloved Rattlesnake while the lawful sappy one was busy about his repairs.

Upon his arrival next day, the sappy one was much confounded to find his patient propped up in bed, smoking a bad cigar.

The wood is sappy and heavy, and for most of the species it is valueless.

On deep snow the fire may rest on a platform of green sappy logs such as balsam.

On three sides of him rose the steep banks, covered with pines and shrubs and sappy grass.

What seems an odor blended of resin, sappy wood, damp leaves, and brown tinder, hangs in the air.

The sappy stems of the young oats had saved his face and head from serious injury; but there was blood on his cheek.

These lice the ants keep as cows to nourish their young with green, sappy milk.