Hypertext Webster Gateway: "sappy"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Sappy \Sap"py\, a. [Compar. {Sappier}; superl. {Sappiest}.]
[From 1st {Sap}.]
1. Abounding with sap; full of sap; juicy; succulent.
2. Hence, young, not firm; weak, feeble.
When he had passed this weak and sappy age.
--Hayward.
3. Weak in intellect. [Low]
4. (Bot.) Abounding in sap; resembling, or consisting largely
of, sapwood.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Sappy \Sap"py\, a. [Written also {sapy}.] [Cf. L. sapere to
taste.]
Musty; tainted. [Obs.]
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
sappy
adj 1: (informal terms) "gave me a cockamamie reason for not
going"; "wore a goofy hat"; "a silly idea"; "some
wacky plan for selling more books" [syn: {cockamamie},
{cockamamy}, {fool(a)}, {goofy}, {silly}, {wacky}, {zany},
{unreasonable}]
2: abounding in sap; "sappy maple trees"; "sappy kindling wood"
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