weepie colloq.
(ˈwiːpɪ)
Also weepy.
[f. weep v. + -ie; cf. talkie, etc.]
A sentimental film, story, play, etc.; a ‘tear-jerker’.
| 1928 Sunday Dispatch 23 Dec. 12/2 There are undoubtedly times when a film calculated to raise buckets of tears has its appeal. Someone recently christened this type of picture..a ‘weepie’. 1948 Sunday Pictorial 18 July 11/4 ‘If Winter Comes’ (Empire) is a re-make of the famous weepie novel. 1958 Spectator 18 July 85/3 Chicken Soup with Barley..is an East End Jewish weepie. 1962 Times 14 May 14/1 An all-out weepy is the only possible description for Girl in a Birdcage. 1977 D. Francis Risk xvi. 207 How much easier if the miscreant would confess..a sentimental solution..which happened only in weepie films. 1984 Listener 5 July 35/1 ‘Weepies’ come in all shapes and sizes. Ostensibly they are women's pictures, because only women cry at them, right? |