soapie
nounEtymology From soap + -ie (“diminutive suffix”).
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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).
- 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.1994, Gaile McGregor, EcCentric Visions: Re Constructing Australia, page 187:
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- CHANNEL 7 has censored a lesbian kissing scene in its popular family soapie Home and Away after a viewer backlash.2009 March 28, Amanda Meade, “Seven censors lesbian kiss”, in Herald Sun, archived from the original on 31 Mar 2009:
- Synonyms
- soap