sobbyadj.
/ˈsɒbi/ Now dialect and U.S.
Soaked; saturated with moisture; soppy.
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the world > matter > liquid > condition of being or making wet > condition of being or making very wet > [adjective]
thorough wetOE
drunk1382
drunkenc1420
uliginosec1440
dung wetc1450
drookeda1522
wet through, to the skin1526
sogginga1552
washed1557
washy1566
muck-wet1567
wringing wet1570
drenched1589
dropsy1605
ydrenched1610
sobby1611
dropsieda1616
slocken1643
uliginous1650
dabbling1661
sodded1661
sobbing1664
sobbed1693
flashy1702
saturated1728
saturate1785
livereda1796
sappy1806
laving1812
sodden1820
sopped1822
soppy1823
soaked1829
dropsical1845
soddened1845
soaking wet1847
soggya1852
sogged1860
soaking1864
sopping1866
soaken1898
astream1929
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues at Evieux Sobbie earth, soyle full of springs.
1615 H. Crooke Μικροκοσμογραϕια 66 The sobby and waterish places of the body.
1720 R. Welton tr. T. Alvares de Andrade Sufferings Son of God II. xv. 398 Lying upon the cold and Sobby Ground.
1847 in N. Amer. Rev. Jan. 191 Sent in their wet and sobby condition to New York.
1854 A. E. Baker Gloss. Northants. Words II. 263 The land is very sobby.
1887 Scribner's Mag. 1 416/2 The sobby earth of the graveyard.
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