soapieとは 意味・読み方・使い方

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名詞

soapie (複数形 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 または married または have slept together, かつ 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^[1]:

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

同意語

• soap (米国用法)

アナグラム

• apiose, apoise