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SapÂ·phic. adj. 1. Of or relating to the Greek poet Sappho. 2. a. Of, relating to, or being a verse characteristic of Sappho, containing 11 syllables and consisting of a trochee, a spondee or trochee, a dactyl, a trochee, and a spondee or trochee. b. Relating to or being a stanza of three such verses followed by a verse consisting of a dactyl followed by a spondee or trochee.
As a verb meaning To drain the sap from, 1725. n.2 simpleton, 1815, originally especially in Scottish and English schoolboy slang, probably from earlier sapskull (1735), saphead (1798), from sap as a shortened form of sapwood soft wood between the inner bark and the heartwood (late 14c.), from sap (n.1) + wood (n.); so called because it conducts the sap; cf. sappy.