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单词 soggy
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soggyadj.

Brit. /ˈsɒɡi/, U.S. /ˈsɑɡi/
Forms: Also 1800s dialect zoggy.
Etymology: < sog n.1 or sog v.
Originally dialect and U.S.
In B. Jonson Ev. Man out of Hum. iii. ii. [viii.] (‘this greene and soggie multitude’) the correct reading is probably ‘foggie’, a common word at that date.
1. Of land: Soaked with water or moisture; boggy, swampy, marshy.
ΘΚΠ
the world > the earth > land > landscape > marsh, bog, or swamp > [adjective]
fen-lichc1000
fennyc1000
mooryOE
marshya1382
marshlyc1410
moorisha1492
queachy?a1500
marish1549
plashya1552
foggy?1555
fen-like1561
undrained1573
fennish1577
boggy1587
paludious1595
wealy1601
marishy1607
snapy1607
uliginous1610
quagmiry1623
paludiate1632
boggish1633
pooly1652
swampy1661
spouty1677
gouty1686
pondy1687
morassy1699
sloppy1699
lairy17..
soggya1722
swampish1725
splashy1727
squashy1751
haggy1765
gaulty1784
slumpy1823
sumpy1824
paludine1852
paludic1854
paludinal1856
paludian1860
paludinous1866
paludal1871
paludial1875
morassic1893
muskeggy1894
swamped1899
a1722 E. Lisle Observ. Husbandry (1757) 49 If the ground falls small, then it may lie soggy and spungy.
1805 W. Marshall Provincialisms W. Devonshire in Rural Econ. W. Eng. (ed. 2) I. 398 Zoggy, wet, boggy.
1869 B. Taylor Byeways of Europe I. 247 The soil..already looked soggy and drenched.
1896 Godey's Mag. Apr. 351/2 These country roads are..frost-laden and wet, and soft and soggy.
2.
a. Saturated with wet; soppy, soaked.
ΘΚΠ
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
a1852 F. M. Whitcher Widow Bedott Papers (1856) xxix. 375 Oh yes, to be sure it needs sugar, the best o' sugar, too; not this wet, soggy, brown sugar.
1863 B. Taylor Hannah Thurston xii. 155 He looked out on..fields of soggy, soaked snow.
1886 Harper's Mag. Dec. 98 Crumbly, soggy timber.
1897 R. Kipling Captains Courageous 19 All he brought up was a soggy packet of cigarettes.
1964 Guardian 9 Sept. 5/8 Plastic-macked parents and hordes of soggy children.
b. Resulting from, caused by, moistness or wetness.
ΘΚΠ
the world > matter > liquid > condition of being or making wet > [adjective] > resulting from or caused by wetness
soggy1877
1877 L. A. Duhring Pract. Treat. Dis. Skin 126 The skin..is observed to be of a whitish or yellowish color, and to have a soggy appearance.
1881 Harper's Mag. Oct. 650 Every footstep giving out a soggy wheeze from his old wet boots.
3. Of bread: Sodden, heavy.
ΘΚΠ
the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > bread > [adjective] > soggy or imperfectly baked
dough-baken?a1450
clammy1530
doughish1556
doughy1578
dough-baked1582
slack-baked1823
sod1836
soggy1868
1868 F. Whymper Trav. Alaska v. 61 We varied a diet of soggy bread with a kind of thin paste or soup.
1903 T.P.'s Weekly 4 Sept. 436/1 Bread is burnt and soggy.
4.
a. Of persons: Dull, spiritless.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > calmness > unexcitability > [adjective] > phlegmatic
phlegmatica1400
phlegmyc1450
sprightlessa1522
spiritless1595
unspirited1621
inexcitable?1624
pituitous1658
slow-going1825
soggy1896
1896 Advance (Chicago) 16 July 88/1 The Slavs are a passive, gregarious, soggy race.
1911 J. Galsworthy Patrician ii. xxi. 277 The passers-by..looked soft, soggy, without pride or will.
b. Of things, in various transferred and figurative uses: dull, lifeless, lacking in vigour, sluggish; (of steering) unresponsive.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > inaction > disinclination to act or listlessness > [adjective] > lacking animation
deadOE
lifelessOE
unquickc1475
exanimate?c1550
flat1604
unsprighty1607
spiritless1609
dead-alive1617
fireless1647
uninformed1709
inanimate1713
unanimated1734
nerveless1735
inanimated1753
dispirited1758
dead and alive1863
unalive1905
pepless1909
zipless1922
soggy1928
undead1936
the mind > emotion > suffering > feeling of weariness or tedium > [adjective] > wearisome or tedious > of things
heavy1601
bloodless?c1622
vapid1790
weighty1828
soggy1928
society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > powered vehicle > parts and equipment of motor vehicles > [adjective] > types of steering
self-centring1909
finger-light1925
recirculating ballc1943
soggy1957
1928 Blackwood's Mag. Jan. 5/2 The correspondence came to an abrupt stop. Great soggy chunks of silence filled the incoming dâk-bag.
1932 Punch Almanack 1933 7 Nov. [18/1] ‘Your mentality is erroneous and—er—soggy. Blime! what a cod!’ he concluded.
1957 J. Braine Room at Top xxv. 205 The steering [of a car] was low-geared and more than a trifle soggy.
1965 G. McInnes Road to Gundagai v. 79 The poor fellow found the evening hanging pretty soggy on his hands.
1966 D. H. Williams & I. Fleming Spectrosc. Methods in Org. Chem. iii. 44 The soggy vibrations of the molecule as a whole give rise to a series of absorption bands at low energy, below 1500 cm.−1
1977 Gramophone Dec. 1080/1 The brass fanfares at the start of the finale are hardly of the brightest in sound—but then tuttis show the general orchestral sound to be pretty soggy.
5. Moist, close, sultry.
ΘΚΠ
the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > bad weather > [adjective] > oppressively still or close
mocha1522
faint1525
close1591
clit1610
muggy1638
pothery1696
mochy1794
mucky1804
mungy1809
sulky1817
sticky1855
languorous1887
soggy1897
1897 R. S. S. Baden-Powell Matabele Campaign xix. 490 We rattled along through the bush,..all the time in deep, soggy heat.
1901 W. Churchill Crisis ii. xiv The day had been soggy and warm.

Derivatives

ˈsogginess n.
ΘΚΠ
the world > matter > liquid > condition of being or making wet > condition of being or making very wet > [noun]
saturation1732
waterloggedness1854
soddenness1883
sogginess1884
soppiness1895
squishiness1929
1884 J. G. Bourke Snake Dance Moquis xv. 173 The sogginess of the roads made slow marching necessary.
1900 Westm. Gaz. 16 Aug. 5/3 The sogginess of the ground.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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