soapy
15
1.0
- adjective
- /ˈsoʊpi/
:
jabonoso
- After washing the car, I rinsed it off with clean water to remove the soapy residue.
- soapy water
It has a bit of a kind of sweet soapy smell to it.
- It has a bit of a kind of sweet soapy smell to it.
- Oh, OK, it's definitely looking very soapy.
- All those like clean soapy bubbly scents and like the sensation of like warm bubbly, soapy water on my skin.
- That's the thing I love about a balm instead of like a soapy cleanser is like your skin still feels so nice.
- By the way, the little soapy thing is empty, but we will fill it.
- So and then they just dump like hot soapy water.
- Oh got lots of soaps in here Soapy soap.
- You could have think of if I dipped this whole helical winding in a a bath of soapy water and I'd get some kind of surface that's spiraling up.
Examples
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I have to walk down and replace my soapy water three times.
Fiction book (1993) -
Everything's soapy, so we might as well scrub the floor.
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And then I can put these in some soapy water along with the this as well.
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Can you get me some soapy water?
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"Put dishes in soapy water."
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It has a bit of a kind of sweet soapy smell to it.
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It's better if you fill the sink with soapy water and dip each plate in it.
Fiction book (1996) -
I'd finished preparing the bucket of soapy water and stepped out into the hall.
Fiction book (1994) -
With a bucket of dull, soapy water, Flora begins the task of washing the tree trunks.
Fiction book (1993) -
Right now she was washing dishes, up to her elbows in soapy water with Alice's Fiesta Ware.
Fiction book (2000)
Synonyms
6
2.2
Covered with many small bubbles, like the top of a cappuccino
3
1.9
Covered with soap bubbles
Feels soapy and slippery when you touch it
Covered in soft white soap bubbles
Antonyms
How Soapy
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Soapy comes from soap + -y, where -y means 'full of' or 'like'. So soapy means 'like soap', used for something slippery, foamy, or covered in suds.