soapy
part of speech
adjective (soapy, soapier, soapiest)
meaning for a pupil
1) Full of soap or covered with soap (soapy water, soapy hands). tree →
2) Like soap in taste, smell or feel (a soapy taste). tree →
3) (informal) Like a soap opera: too dramatic and emotional. tree →
sense in the lessons
In health and hygiene lessons, wash hands with soapy water for about 20 seconds, scrubbing all parts, then rinse. In science, soapy water makes bubbles and breaks up grease and germs. In safety: soapy floors and bathtubs are slippery; don't get soapy water in your eyes. Phrases: soapy water, soapy bubbles, warm soapy water.
examples
- Wash the dishes in warm soapy water. tree →
- Rub your soapy hands together for twenty seconds. tree →
- The bathroom floor is soapy and slippery — careful! tree →
- We blew soapy bubbles in the garden. tree →
- Soapy water helps get grease off the pans. tree →
- The cheap shampoo left my hair soapy. tree →
- Some people think coriander has a soapy taste. tree →
- "You have to work hard," said Holberg one day, when she was dipping clothes in the strong soapy water, and was obliged herself to split the logs for the fire. tree →
note
Comparative: soapier, soapiest. From «soap» + «-y». Not the same as «sudsy» but close (suds = soap foam).
In the corpora
- Lick a lemon and it is sour; taste a tiny pinch of baking soda and it is bitter and soapy.
- Baking soda (bicarbonate of soda) is a mild alkali; it tastes bitter and soapy, not sour.
- Soapy water also makes a stretchy film that you can blow into bubbles, and a free bubble always pulls itself into a ball.
- Never leave or reach for a knife hidden under soapy water, because nobody can see the blade.
- Never leave a knife in soapy water or reach into water where a knife may be hidden.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «soapy» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.