soggy

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sog·gy

(sŏg′ē, sô′gē)

adj. sog·gi·er, sog·gi·est

1. Saturated or sodden with moisture; soaked: soggy clothes.

2. Lacking spirit; dull: a soggy bit of dialogue.

3. Humid; sultry: a soggy afternoon in August.

[From dialectal sog, to be soaked (from Middle English soggon, soaked, probably of Scandinavian origin) or from dialectal sog, swamp.]

sog′gi·ly adv.

sog′gi·ness n.

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soggy

(ˈsɒɡɪ)

adj, -gier or -giest

1. soaked with liquid

2. (Cookery) (of bread, pastry, etc) moist and heavy

3. informal lacking in spirit or positiveness

[C18: probably from dialect sog marsh, of obscure origin]

ˈsoggily adv

ˈsogginess n

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sog•gy

(ˈsɒg i)

adj. -gi•er, -gi•est.

1. thoroughly wet; soaked; sodden.

2. damp and heavy, as poorly baked bread.

3. ponderously dull; boring: a soggy, sentimental play.

[1590–1600; dial. sog bog + -y¹]

sog′gi•ly, adv.

sog′gi•ness, n.

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Adj.	1.	soggy - (of soil) soft and watery; "the ground was boggy under foot"; "a marshy coastline"; "miry roads"; "wet mucky lowland"; "muddy barnyard"; "quaggy terrain"; "the sloughy edge of the pond"; "swampy bayous" boggy, marshy, miry, mucky, muddy, quaggy, sloughy, swampy, waterlogged, squashy, sloppy wet - covered or soaked with a liquid such as water; "a wet bathing suit"; "wet sidewalks"; "wet weather"
	2.	soggy - having the consistency of dough because of insufficient leavening or improper cooking; "the cake fell; it's a doughy mess" doughy heavy - of comparatively great physical weight or density; "a heavy load"; "lead is a heavy metal"; "heavy mahogany furniture"
	3.	soggy - slow and apathetic; "she was fat and inert"; "a sluggish worker"; "a mind grown torpid in old age" torpid, inert, sluggish inactive - not active physically or mentally; "illness forced him to live an inactive life"; "dreamy and inactive by nature"

soggy

adjective sodden, saturated, moist, heavy, soaked, dripping, waterlogged, sopping, mushy, spongy, pulpy soggy cheese and tomato sandwiches

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soggy

adjective

1. Covered with or full of liquid:

sodden, sopping, soppy, wet.

2. Damp and warm:

humid, muggy, sticky, sultry.

Translations

مُبَلَلمُشْبَع بالماء، مُبَلَّل

promáčenýrozmoklý

gennemvåd

durchnässt durchweicht

μουσκεμένος

empapado

märkä

détrempé

mokar

vatnsósa

umido zuppo

ずぶぬれの

함빡 젖은

ištižimas

piemircis

doorweekt

søkkvåt vasstrukken vasstrukket

rozmokły

encharcado

влажный

razmočen

blöt

เปียกโชก

ıslak sırılsıklamsu içinde

sũng nước

浸水的湿透的

soggy

[ˈsɒgɪ] ADJ (soggier (compar) (soggiest (superl))) [paper] → mojado; [clothes, ground] → empapado; [bread, biscuits] → revenido; [salad, vegetables] → pasado

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soggy

[ˈsɒgi] adj [ground] → détrempé(e); [clothes] → trempé(e); [sandwich, bread, cornflakes] → mou(molle)
a soggy tissue → un kleenex détrempé
soggy chips → des frites molles

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

soggy

adj (+er) → durchnässt, triefnass; soil, compost → durchweicht; food, vegetables → matschig (inf); cake, bread → klitschig; a soggy mess → eine Matsche

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soggy

[ˈsɒgɪ] adj (-ier (comp) (-iest (superl))) → fradicio/a, inzuppato/a; (bread, cake) → molle, pesante

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

soggy

(ˈsogi) adjective

very wet and soft. In the centre of the puddle was a piece of soggy cardboard.

ˈsogginess noun

soggy

→ مُبَلَل rozmoklý gennemvåd durchnässt μουσκεμένος empapado märkä détrempé mokar zuppo ずぶぬれの 함빡 젖은 doorweekt vasstrukken rozmokły encharcado влажный blöt เปียกโชก ıslak sũng nước 浸水的

soggy

a. saturado-a, empapado-a.

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The bottom of the valley was soggy with water, which the thick moss held, spongelike, close to the surface.

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For untold ages, oppressed by protean fear, I am aware of wandering, endlessly wandering, through a dank and soggy wilderness, where poisonous snakes struck at us, and animals roared around us, and the mud quaked under us and sucked at our heels.

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The storm, indeed, seemed to be over, but it was no easy matter to get back over the soggy, rain-soaked ground to the trail they had left to take shelter in the forest.

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"But my feet are all wet and soggy," said the girl.

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Damp and soggy where it was not sharp and rocky, buffeted by storm winds and lashed by the sea, with the air continually a-tremble with the bellowing of two hundred thousand amphibians, it was a melancholy and miserable sojourning-place.

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It would make a great difference in the drainage, but a new plowman might think this finickiness and just go ahead and plow all of it north and south, or all of it east and west and this would result in a lower yield--some parts of the field would get soggy and the wheat might get a rust, and other parts drain too readily, letting the ground become parched and break into cakes, all of which might be prevented.

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I removed her life-belt and my soggy coat and made a pillow for her head.

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"Too much fog might make us soggy. What we're after is betwixt an' between, an' we'll have to get back from the coast a ways to find it."

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All he brought up was a soggy packet of cigarettes.

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Cold and uncomfortable--it was a savage Tarzan who threaded the mazes of the soggy jungle.

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A boggy, soggy, squitchy picture truly, enough to drive a nervous man distracted.

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And on hands and knees, slowly and cautiously, he crawled on, till his knees were wet on the soggy mold, When he listened he heard naught but the moaning wind and the drip-drip of the fog from the branches.