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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
soggy
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ A soggy pile of old leaves lay in the corner of the yard.
▪ Breakfast was terrible - the eggs were burnt and the toast was soggy.
▪ Rick couldn't face another picnic lunch on a soggy paper plate.
▪ These cornflakes get soggy really fast in milk.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A second entry and exit gate was available, but the soggy conditions would have rendered it useless within minutes.
▪ At the time our soggy mission was a singleminded search for a classic Vienna coffeehouse.
▪ I forgot my wetness, my dripping jeans, the soggy waterlogged ground.
▪ It is not a thought soggy with the milk of human kindness.
▪ Rainy days could mean exposed roots, soggy fields, or plows that drowned in the mud and muck.
▪ She furiously grasped hold of a clump of soggy weed and after more slipping and sliding finally managed to heave herself out.
▪ Showers spray everywhere, creating soggy toilet paper and slippery floors.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Soggy

Soggy \Sog"gy\, a. [Compar. Soggier; superl. Soggiest.] [Cf. Icel. s["o]ggr damp, wet, or E. soak.] Filled with water; soft with moisture; sodden; soaked; wet; as, soggy land or timber.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
soggy

1722, perhaps from dialectal sog "bog, swamp," or the verb sog "become soaked," both of unknown origin, + -y (2). Related: Soggily; sogginess.

Wiktionary
soggy

a. soaked with moisture or other liquid

WordNet
soggy
  1. adj. soaked with moisture; "a soggy lawn"; "the flood left waterlogged fields" [syn: waterlogged]

  2. having the consistency of dough because of insufficient leavening or improper cooking; "the cake fell; it's a doughy mess" [syn: doughy]

  3. [also: soggiest, soggier]

Usage examples of "soggy".

Then, blundering about and bellowing like a wounded rhino, he staggered out front and shoveled a big sluiceway in the recently patched ditch bank, allowing almost the entire acequia flow to cascade into his already soggy front vega.

Water dripped from the trees in the alameda and the crepe hung in soggy strings.

The buildings were constructed for the most part of squared-off logs, since stone was rare here on the vast, soggy delta of the Arjun River, and the logs appeared to have been attacked by damp rot almost before they were in place.

A soggy football went sailing past the window and a clatter of bogmen chasing after it.

In some places a drenched and irate citizenry raised the alarm immediately, while others were left to awaken to peculiar smells and woefully soggy carpeting.

But she could make out three more dromes now, their big round soggy faces peering at her around tree trunks.

Vess walks through the soggy grass to the old log house and climbs a set of fieldstone steps to the front porch.

Then he opened the Parrish and held it out, and the gunsel dropped his soggy cigar inside it.

Soggy paperbacks, drenched calfskin and pulpy wet hardbacks dripped in every nook and cranny.

He stood up, picked up three soggy hoecakes, dropped them into a ragged pocket, and nodded his head.

It is a contained, soggy madness, which does little more than humidify the dry, unspoken grief we all feel.

Melyssan said, staring unhappily down at her manchet, grown soggy with her uneaten dinner.

Mister Cat along a row of soggy cabbages, nibbling here, noshing there.

The runoff from the melted accumulation turned the saturated soil that fronted the cave into a soggy, slippery sink of oozing mud.

He picked up his fork and poked at his four runny eggs, a side of pancakes, three strips of soggy bacon, and a stack of toast.