Reverse Dictionary: SOAP

SOAP, SOAPINESS, SOAPY 

ADJECTIVES
1661 SAPONARY soapy → obs.
1710 SAPONACEOUS of the nature of or resembling soap; containing soap; soapy
1897 SALVY greasy, oily, soapy → Eng. dial.


NOUNS
1582 — TABLET a flat cake of soap
1624 — BUMBLE BROTH soapsuds; bubbly or frothy water resembling soapsuds → obs.
1669 — SAPONARINESS a soapy quality → obs.
1720 — SAIP-BELLS soap bubbles → Sc.
1820 — SAPPLES soap-suds, lather for washing → Sc.
1839 — WADGE a bar of soap → Sc.
1845 — SAPONACITY soapiness
1888 — SAIPIE-SAPPLES soap suds, lather → Sc.
1896 — SAIPY-SUDS soap suds, lather → Sc.
..20C — BOB HOPE soap → Aust. rhyming sl.
..20C — LAND OF HOPE soap → rhyming sl.
..20C — QUARTERMASTER’S ERASMIC soap for scrubbing floors → army sl.
1911 — BLOTS water for washing clothes; soapsuds, dirty water → Sc. (Bk.)
1944 — BEAR GREASE G.I. soap (pronounced B’ar) → service sl. (Bk.)


NOUNS, PERSON
1857 GAMMY VENDOR one who makes a very inferior soap and sells it as ‘Windsor Soap’ and who, while at a house, purloins spoons or anything else within easy reach; one who sells bad goods → UK criminals’ sl. obs.