LekhoriLekhoriExcessively sweet, emotional, nostalgic; cheesy; mushy. (British equivalent: soppy
He was a good deal of a character, and much better company than the sappy literature he was selling.
Having (a particularly large amount of) sap.
‘Torches are made to light, jewels to wear, Dainties to taste, fresh beauty for the use, Herbs for their smell, and sappy plants to bear: Things growing to themselves are growth’s abuse: Seeds spring from seeds and beauty breedeth beauty; Thou wast begot; to get it is thy duty.
Musty; tainted; rancid.
sappie or unsavourie flesh
From Middle English sappy, sapy, from Old English sæpiġ (“full of sap, succulent”), equivalent to sap + -y. Cognate with West Frisian sappig (“juicy”), Dutch sappig (“juicy, succulent”), Middle High G...
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