Synonyms for sap
Most common
Definitions
- n. 1
A naive person; a simpleton.
Look at the sap mowing our lawn while we pretend our own lawnmower is broken.
- n. 2
The juice of plants of any kind, especially the ascending and descending juices or circulating fluid essential to nutrition.
- n. 3
The sapwood, or alburnum, of a tree.
Forms
- Plural
- saps → suckers, ding-a-lings, fools, gudgeons…
Example sentences
- juice They say that beet juice can lower blood pressure.
Popularity over time
| Word | 1850 → 2019 | Trend |
|---|---|---|
| sap | steady | |
| muggins | steady | |
| tomfool | steady | |
| juice | rising |
Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.
By length
- 3 letters
- mug1
- 4 letters
- fool1, jerk1, cull1, mutt1, dupe1, cosh
- 5 letters
- juice1, chump1
- 6 letters
- sucker2, pigeon2, stooge1
- 7 letters
- gudgeon2, muggins, milksop, tomfool, saphead
- 9 letters
- schlemiel
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (sucker2 = 2 syllables).