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Soppy date
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This was a term my Mum (born 1927) used to use if you'd done something silly... "You are a soppy date!". Was this unique to her or a buzz phrase at some time?
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.I'm not familiar with the 'date' version, but what you refer to as 'apeth', Hellion, was more usually written 'a'p'orth, as it's an abbreviation of 'halfpennyworth'. In the days when the coin existed, it was usually pronounced as hape-nee. Clearly, it was of very little value, so when used to address people - usually children - it just meant something along the lines of "you silly little thing".