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/sˈoʊpi/ Listen

adjective

Soapy adj. (compar. soapier; superl. soapiest)

Resembling soap; having the qualities of, or feeling like, soap; soft and smooth.

Smeared with soap; covered with soap.

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"Soapy" Quotes from Famous Books

... a few miles of the desert!" scoffed Linda. "Nice Indian you'd make. We take our choice today between finding deer-brush and digging for amole, because the mock oranges aren't ripe enough to be nice and soapy yet. I've got the deer-brush spotted, and we'll pass an amole before we go very far. Look for a wavy blue-green leaf like a wide blade of grass and coming ...

— Her Father's Daughter • Gene Stratton-Porter

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... the spinners it is again run off on reels to be taken to the dye house. First the yarn is boiled off in soapy water to remove the remaining gum. Now the silk takes on its luster. Before it was dull like cotton. The silk is now finer and harder and is known ...

— Textiles and Clothing • Kate Heintz Watson

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... Since she had good soapy suds and plenty of hot water left in the iron kettle, June decided to scrub the bed covers. Twenty minutes later, barefooted and barelegged, her skirts tucked up above the knees, the young washwoman was trampling blankets in the tub. She had no reason to suppose ...

— The Fighting Edge • William MacLeod Raine

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... hair-brush or clothes-brush. For large plants or large numbers of smaller plants spray pumps of various sizes are used. Sometimes chewing insects on food plants and sucking insects on all plants are treated by spraying them with soapy solutions or oily solutions which injure ...

— The First Book of Farming • Charles L. Goodrich

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... only one," he was saying. "She ain't made no exception with any of the outfit. To my knowin' there's been Lon Dexter, Soapy, Clem Miller, Lazy, Wrinkles—an' myself," he admitted, reddening, "been notified that we was mavericks an' needed our ears marked. An' now comes Leviatt a-fannin' right on to get his'n. An' I ...

— The Two-Gun Man • Charles Alden Seltzer

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