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soaked, ppl. a.|ˈsəʊkt|
[f. soak v. + -ed1.]
1. transf. Dull, lacking in animation.
1600Hosp. Incurable Fooles 19 Melancholike persons of this kinde, haue pale faces, soaked and hollow eies.
2. Steeped, macerated; saturated, drenched.
Also as second element in rain-, water-soaked, etc.
1829Chapters Phys. Sci. 197 If there be brought into contact two wetted or soaked bodies. 1841Dickens Barn. Rudge viii, Is it soaked gunpowder, or blazing oil? 1879Proctor Pleas. Ways Sc. xvii. 368 The soaked slopes of great hills give way.
3. Intoxicated. Freq. as second element of a Comb.
Some of these quotations may be regarded as examples of soak v. 7 b.
1737Pennsylvania Gaz. 6–13 Jan. 2/2 He carries too much Sail, Stew'd, Stubb'd, Soak'd, Soft. 1899,1908[see gin-soaked adj. s.v. gin n.2 2 b]. 1939Joyce Finnegans Wake i. 85 The prisoner, soaked in methylated, appeared in dry dock. a1953E. O'Neill Touch of Poet (1957) iv. 158 Like a rum-soaked trooper, brawling before a brothel on a Saturday night. |