soapie

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:
      CHANNEL 7 has censored a lesbian kissing scene in its popular family soapie Home and Away after a viewer backlash.

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