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sudsy

sudsy

3 1.9
Covered with soap bubbles
  • adjective
  • /ˈsʌd.zi/
translation icon : espumoso
  • After the ambulance had taken his body away, she had gotten down on her knees with a pail of warm, sudsy water and her favorite stiff brush and scrubbed at the bathroom floor.
  • sudsy water
  • bucket of sudsy water
  • sudsy sink

Examples

  • Got some good sudsy water here for somebody who wants to get clean.

    Fiction book (1993)
  • In one, I'm studiously scrubbing doll clothes in a sudsy washpan on a miniature scrub board.

    Fiction book (1990)
  • As she lay soaking in the warm, sudsy water, she never wanted to come out of it.

    Fiction book (1997)
  • By adding some Epsom salt to your sudsy water, you will get a cleaning boost.

    Blog text (1)
  • Of course, I run my closed jars through a pan of sudsy water before sterilizing.

    Blog text (8)
  • Of note though; don't use too much sudsy foam or it'll get the mattress too wet.

    Blog text (32)
  • The chlorine smell reminds me of summer mornings outside our kitchen, the maids on their knees scouring the floor with the sudsy water, ranks of purple impatiens spilling over the walk.

    Fiction book (1992)
  • As she lay soaking in the warm, sudsy water, she never wanted to come out of it.

  • Now, dip a cloth into warm, sudsy water and clean the interior and exterior.

  • I grab the rag and the bucket of sudsy water.

Synonyms

soapy
vssudsy
15 1.0

A slippery, foamy feeling like soap on your skin

focuses on being covered with foam not on slippery texture
lathery
vssudsy
6.4

Covered in soft white soap bubbles

is about being filled or covered with foam rather than just surface froth
high-sudsing
vssudsy
5.9

Making a lot of foam when mixed with water

describes being covered in foam rather than producing it
saponaceous
vssudsy
  • Specialized
9.9

Feels soapy and slippery when you touch it

focuses on visible foam rather than slippery chemical feel

Antonyms

dry
791 1.0

Not wet or without any liquid

How Frothy

sudsy
3 1.9
foamy
6 2.2
bubbly
24 3.2

Surface Forms

sudsy positive

Morphology

sudsy = suds (transparent) = suds + suds + y

A straightforward adjectival formation from 'suds' + '-y' meaning 'full of or covered with suds', easily inferable by learners.

Etymology

Sudsy comes from suds, the bubbly foam you get when you wash or the foamy top of a beer. So something sudsy is 'full of or covered with suds or bubbles'.