What's the difference between mushy and sappy?

Mushy


Definition:

  • (a.) Soft like mush; figuratively, good-naturedly weak and effusive; weakly sentimental.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) "Jellied eels were always considered a regional dish, much like haggis is to Scotland, mushy peas are to northern England and laver bread is to Wales."
  • (2) Fatbergs build up on sewer roofs like mushy stalactites.
  • (3) Thirty-three patients (97%) had diarrhea, and properties of the stools were watery in twenty-four and mushy in nine.
  • (4) Terrified by the potential for offence, terrified also of giving the impression that any one line of thought was preferable to any other, the default position on every subject became a mushy relativism where every conceivable matter of opinion was deemed to be as valuable as any other.
  • (5) The remaining Covent Garden branch will continue to offer a range of "proud British flavours", including fish and chips with mushy peas at £14.95; pork belly, banger and mash for £14.50, and sticky toffee pudding with clotted cream at £6.
  • (6) The world leaders invited to dine by Queen Margrethe supped on turkey and mushy peas, and were serenaded by the Danish Royal Life Guards bands playing George Harrison's Here Comes the Sun.
  • (7) Last week he unveiled a house in Southwark made of 10 tonnes of wax bricks, which will be heated each morning over the coming month, until is is no more than a mushy puddle on the pavement.
  • (8) It is proposed that egg counts from 1- to 3-year-olds be multiplied by 0.3, those from 4- to 6-year-olds by 0.5, those from 7- to 9-year-olds by 0.6, and those from 10 to 12-year-olds by 0.7; differences in mean egg density among various fecal consistencies produced factors of 1, 1.5, 2, 3, and 3.5 by which the egg counts in formed, mushy-formed, mushy, mushy-diarrheic, and diarrheic feces should be increased.
  • (9) This report reviews the authors' experience with these injuries, focusing on the recognition and management of what the authors call "complex" DRUJ dislocations: dislocations characterized by obvious irreducibility, recurrent subluxation, or "mushy" reduction caused by soft tissue or bone interposition.
  • (10) Most of them kept records of three consecutive defecations, including stool form on a validated six point scale ranging from hard, round lumps to mushy.
  • (11) Mistaking the northern staple of mushy peas for a more metropolitan avocado dip, the urbane Mr Mandelson asked for "some of that guacamole" to accompany his haddock and chips.
  • (12) 'Share a meal of fish and chips with your family every day for around 10 weeks, with a couple of portions of mushy peas thrown in' "If the government just communicated with people in dry multi-page documents people would be saying they should do things in a fresh and modern way."
  • (13) He recently emerged from a serious heart attack and, deciding that he was by nature resilient, indulged exactly the same appetites, sinking quantities of the bourbon supplied by a son who worked in the US; eating deep fried cod, chips and mushy peas on Brighton seafront, washed down with dry white wine rather than mugs of tea; resuming a full and fascinating love life that had included two marriages along the way, with two much-loved sons from each.
  • (14) The nuts bring clagginess and the fruit is too wet, so the result is soggy and mushy with a mouth-coating trace of clay, a sort of repulsive pabulum whose problem is not its flavour but its mouthfeel.
  • (15) The stage was thus set for Andy Burnham and Yvette Cooper to emerge as Labour’s moderate healers – Cooper with a defiant defence of the spending record, and Burnham with a mushy appeal to the “heart of Labour”.
  • (16) Careful attention to these injuries during initial reduction attempts will reveal "mushy" or unobtainable reductions, an important indication for exploration for entrapped tendon, bone, or soft tissue.
  • (17) "It looks like there's going to be another mushy minestrone of a coalition.
  • (18) Trypanosome prevalence in cattle where G.tabaniformis appeared to be the main vector was 9.5% and 5.4% at the Mushie and OGAPROV ranches, respectively.
  • (19) Experiments performed on dogs to determine their stomach contents after death indicated that, in high-temperature conditions, for example, the ingested chunks of meat are reduced to a mushy-sloppy consistency after three days, suggesting that digestion will proceed to some extent after death as putrefaction continues.
  • (20) Maria Ellis's stuffed tofu Ginger beer-battered stuffed tofu with Asian mushy peas.

Sappy


Definition:

  • (superl.) Abounding with sap; full of sap; juicy; succulent.
  • (superl.) Hence, young, not firm; weak, feeble.
  • (superl.) Weak in intellect.
  • (superl.) Abounding in sap; resembling, or consisting largely of, sapwood.
  • (a.) Musty; tainted.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The genius of The Muppet Show was that it was ironic without being cynical, sharp without being cruel, sweet without being sappy , anarchic without being too chaotic, timely without being dated.
  • (2) The smell should have been sappy and muddy and of the sea.
  • (3) In any case they hit dangerously sappy scenes like this one out of the park: LG: Will you kiss me?
  • (4) A common theme in the comments expressing dismay at my shameful acceptance of fatherhood is that people go all sappy when they have a baby; ergo, every word I wrote from this point on would be shot through with gooey, complacent sentiment.
  • (5) Kobe Bryant’s last hurrah as a professional basketball player featured everything that was glorious (and maddening) about No24, plus countless sappy tribute videos.
  • (6) He created the sappy but much-loved Felicity in 1998.

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