soapie

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English

Etymology

From soap +‎ -ie (“diminutive suffix”).

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Noun

soapie (plural soapies)

  1. (Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, informal) A soap opera.
    • 1988, Gunther Kress, Communication and Culture, New South Wales University Press, page 177,
      The conventions include impossibly complicated interrelationships (most characters in soapies are either related or married or have slept together, and in celebrated instances, all three).
    • 1994, Gaile McGregor, EcCentric Visions: Re Constructing Australia, page 187:
      In terms of its general mood, the average Australian soapie, in comparison with the American soap, is less intense, less subjective, and certainly a good deal less angst-ridden.
    • 2009 March 28, Amanda Meade, “Seven censors lesbian kiss”, in Herald Sun‎, archived from the original on 31 March 2009:
      CHANNEL 7 has censored a lesbian kissing scene in its popular family soapie Home and Away after a viewer backlash.

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