ploppy

English

Etymology

plop +‎ -y

Adjective

ploppy (comparative ploppier, superlative ploppiest)

1. (informal) Making a plopping sound.
   • 1965, Stephen Murray-Smith, An Overland Muster: Selection from Overland ; 1954-1964, page 210:

     She made angry ploppy sounds in the glasses because her hand was shaking with temper.

   • 1997, Leslie Edgerton, Monday's Meal: Stories, page 190:

     Fine with me, she said, sliding off the stool with a little ploppy sound in her shoes.

   • 2005, Terese Pampellonne, The Unwelcome Child:

     She snapped her fingers, but they were too plump to made anything but a ploppy noise.

2. (informal) Suitable for plopping into; soft and comfortable.
   • 1982, Luis Rafael Sánchez, Macho Camacho's Beat, page 5:

     Sweaty too, you'll see her waiting sweaty, sweaty and plopped onto a sweaty ploppy sofa, a sweaty ploppy sofa that changes into a bed that changes into a sofa, an elegant member of a transvestite domestic cast that can do everything.

   • 1999, Denise Jones, Circle of Friends:

     When Heather and I gather for prayer, she often sits cross-legged on the ploppy (her word) couch, puppy Darla resting snugly against her, and I sit across from them in the large overstuffed chair by the window with the very cool plantation blinds.

3. (informal) Tending to plop; limp and heavy.
   • 1976, Ted Curtis Williams, The reservation, page 150:

     I'm wearing Turkey's boots and they're so ploppy I got me a pukey blister on my heel.

   • 1987, Susan Trott, Sightings, page 154:

     The snow was falling in thick ploppy moist flakes

   • 1992, Jeff Stutchbury, Veronica Stutchbury, Spirit of the Zambezi, page 68:

     One day the small cottonwool clouds begin to form and soon they become ominous black clouds from which the first big, ploppy drops fall.

   • 2012, Nell Wise Wechter, Taffy of Torpedo Junction, page 37:

     Maybe you can grab it that way. But be careful. The waves are real ploppy today.

Noun

ploppy (plural ploppies)

1. (slang, derogatory) An unskilled gambler.
   • 2010, Frank Scoblete, Casino Craps: Shoot to Win!:

     Craps is a simple game, made even simpler because most of the bets are worthless to the smart player, although ploppies—the unschooled, unthinking masses of casino craps players—will fall all over themselves to wager on them.