Think of a bowl of water with soap stirred into it: cloudy, slippery, covered in bubbles. Everything soapy can be traced back to that bowl. Sometimes the soap is really there, in the water or on your hands. Sometimes it is only a resemblance — a stone that feels like that, a taste that reminds you of that. And one use has left the bathroom altogether and gone to the television.
可以想成一盆攪進肥皂的水：霧霧的、滑滑的、上面都是泡泡。soapy 的各種用法，大致都能回到這盆水。有時候肥皂是真的在那裡，在水裡，或在你手上。有時候只是「像」——石頭摸起來像、味道嚐起來像。還有一支已經離開浴室，跑到電視上去了。
From the word’s history
The word is soap plus the ending -y, the same ending that turns dirt into dirty and salt into salty: it marks something as carrying the thing named.
這個字是 soap 加上字尾 -y，跟 dirt→dirty、salt→salty 是同一種造法：名詞加 -y，表示「帶有那個東西」。所以 soapy 最基本的意思就是「帶著肥皂的」。
packet Wiktionary etymology for soapy (kaikki:3f6f69a190036ae4:1234303432): "From soap + -y."
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