spongyadj.

/ˈspʌndʒi/

Forms: α. 1500s–1800s spungy, 1500s spungye, 1500s–1600s spungie. β. 1500s–1600s spongie, 1600s–1800s spongey, 1600s– spongy.

Etymology: < sponge n.¹ + -y suffix¹.

1. Having a soft elastic or porous texture resembling that of a sponge; deficient in solidity or firmness, so as to be readily compressible:

a. Of flesh, animal tissue, etc., sometimes with special reference to morbid conditions.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > animal body > general parts > constituent materials > [adjective] > having spongy tissue

spongy1539

the world > matter > constitution of matter > softness > types of softness > [adjective] > spongy

moorisha1398

fungous?1440

spongy1539

fungy1578

sponge-like1594

airy1598

spongeous1607

fuzzy1616

spongoid1849

the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > diseases of tissue > [adjective] > alteration of tissue > softening

spongy1539

mollescent1829

malacic1890

α.

1539 T. Elyot Castel of Helthe (new ed.) 31 b The tounge is of a spungy & sanguine substance.

1545 T. Raynald in tr. E. Roesslin Byrth of Mankynde i. sig. I.vii Leuing al the grosser part in y^e spungye body of the houpecall.

1617 J. Woodall Surgions Mate 24 If the disease be a kinde of spungie flesh.

1695 J. Edwards Disc. conc. Old & New-Test. III. v. 245 The lower part of the Ear..is spungy and flexible.

1712 S. Sewall Diary 4 Jan. (1973) II. 675 Major Walley's Left foot is opened underneath, and found to be very hollow, and spungy.

figurative.a1628 F. Greville Alaham ii. iii, in Certaine Wks. (1633) 31 The spungie hearts of men Their hollowes gladly fill with womens loue.β. 1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica iii. xxi. 158 It hath in the tongue a spongy and mucous extremity.1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth V. 250 The muscular, spongy flesh of the tongue.1809 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 21 339 The other parts..were very pulpy, soft, spongy, and broken down.1843 R. J. Graves Syst. Clin. Med. xvi. 192 His mouth became very sore,..his gums spongy.1898 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. V. 204 Islets of spongy tissue separate the individual nodules.

b. Of parts of plants, timber, etc.

ΘΚΠ

the world > plants > appearance of plant > defined by texture > [adjective] > rigid or spongy

spongy1578

cartilaginous1682

rigescent1848

the world > space > relative position > condition of being open or not closed > an opening or aperture > [adjective] > having (a) hole(s) > full of holes > porous

plummya1398

porousa1398

hollow1398

sponged1398

spongeous1398

porosea1400

spongiousc1400

pory1535

spongy1578

sponge-like1594

lax1615

porish1652

laxy1716

spongiose1755

spongiform1805

spongeoid1822

spongoid1843

polyporous1858

α.

1589 J. Lyly Pappe with Hatchet C iv Elders..being fullest of spungie pith, proue euer the driest kixes.

1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage 506 The wood is of a spungie substance.

1710 C. Whitworth Acct. Russia (1758) 135 Timber..cut in the spring after the sap is run up, which makes the wood spungy.

1769 E. Bancroft Ess. Nat. Hist. Guiana 47 Their internal substance is white, spungy, and saponaceous.

1807 G. Crabbe Birth Flattery in Poems 203 Where spungy Rushes hide the plashy Green.

β. 1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball 181 The roote is white and of a spongie substance.1672 N. Grew Anat. Veg. vii. 175 This inner Coat..is a very Spongy and Sappy Body.1785 W. Cowper Task iii. 522 Then rise the tender germs, upstarting quick, And spreading wide their spongy lobes.1842 J. C. Loudon Suburban Horticulturist 182 The shoots there are generally more luxuriant and spongy.1860 J. Ruskin Mod. Painters V. 43 A root [of a tree], properly so called, is a fibre, spongy or absorbent at the extremity.1884 F. O. Bower & D. H. Scott tr. H. A. de Bary Compar. Anat. Phanerogams & Ferns 410 Lamellar cavernous parenchyma.., which from this spongy character has also been called ‘spongy parenchyma’.

c. Of ground or soil, esp. through excess of moisture.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the earth > land > ground > [adjective] > soft or spongy

softc1175

sinking1531

spongy1652

wood-sear1670

wood-searya1722

the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > earth or soil > soil qualities > [adjective] > soft or yielding > through excess water

weta900

clammy1530

waterish1540

weeping1577

spongy1652

stagnant1850

α.

1652 Earl of Monmouth tr. G. Bentivoglio Hist. Relations Flanders 10 The scituation of all the other Provinces is low and spungie.

1677 London Gaz. No. 1224/3 The ground about the place being very spungy in wet weather.

1708 J. C. Compl. Collier 8 in T. Nourse Mistery of Husbandry Discover'd (ed. 3) It must of necessity rise through the spungy Earth.

1799 Scotland Descr. (ed. 2) 16 The morasses, of which the soil is either a spungy turf, or a black consistent peat-earth.

1858 C. Kingsley My Winter-garden in Misc. (1860) I. 151 The soft tread of..horse-hoofs upon the spungy vegetable soil.

β. 1692 J. Ray Misc. Disc. v. 155 A spungy kind of Earth.1796 W. Withering Arrangem. Brit. Plants (ed. 3) III. 793 Rotten spongy ground.1818 P. B. Shelley Marenghi xxiv The coarse bulbs of iris-flowers he found Knotted in clumps under the spongy ground.1844 H. Stephens Bk. of Farm I. 507 Where clay is..very spongy, tough, and wet.1889 F. Cowper Capt. of Wight 259 There is not a hole or a spongy place anywhere.

d. In miscellaneous applications.

ΚΠ

1616 G. Markham tr. C. Estienne et al. Maison Rustique (rev. ed.) v. xx. 577 Neither must it [sc. manchet bread] be made too light or spungie.

a1687 W. Petty Polit. Anat. Ireland (1691) 112 The Art of making the excellent, thick, spungy, warm Coverlets, seems to be lost.

1713 J. Gay Rural Sports 3 When floating Clouds their spongy Fleeces drain.

1716 J. Gay Trivia i. 4 The Frieze's spongy Nap is soaked with Rain.

1753 J. Hanway Hist. Acct. Brit. Trade Caspian Sea II. x. 50 Their cloths are spungy, but they are thin, light and soft.

1834 Brit. Husbandry (Libr. Useful Knowl.) I. 340 The ashes..produced from soft soap..will be found light and spongy.

1836–41 W. T. Brande Man. Chem. (ed. 5) 109 The rising of fluids in porous and spongy bodies.

e. Of suspension and braking systems in motor vehicles: deficient in firmness.

ΘΚΠ

society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > powered vehicle > parts and equipment of motor vehicles > [adjective] > type of suspension or braking system

regenerative1903

spongy1952

1952 Fradzee & Bedell Automotive Maintenance & Trouble Shooting x. 396 A spongy pedal on hydraulic brake systems may be due to excessive clearance between the shoes and the drum.

1954 I. Fleming Live & let Die xiii. 134 All the fun of driving had been taken out of them..with hydraulic-assisted steering and spongy suspension.

1962 Which? Car Suppl. Oct. 123/1 The Fiat 1500..had one disconcerting point [sc. in its braking system]—the long pedal travel necessary, which always felt ‘spongy’ and gave the impression that there was less power available in the brakes than in fact was the case.

1967 B. C. Macdonald Car Doctor A to Z iii. 19 (heading) Pedal has ‘spongy’ feel.

2. Of hard substances: Having an open porous structure resembling that of a sponge:

a. Of bones, spec. of certain bones of the skull.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > the body > structural parts > bone or bones > types of bones > [adjective]

rawc1425

foveable?1541

spongy1594

short-grained1694

ossicular1714

ossiculated1752

interhaemal1846

mesopodial1880

1594 T. Bowes tr. P. de la Primaudaye French Acad. II. 123 It is called by the Phisicions the siue-bone, or otherwise and that more properly, the spungy bone.

1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. i. vi. 210 Whereby the moist Braines spongie bone doth sup Sweet smelling fumes.

1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 401 A Splent is a spungy harde grissell or bone, growing fast on the inside of the shin-bone of a Horsse.

1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. at Bone Bones..which have thin solid sides, and a thick intermediate spongy part.

1854 R. Owen Struct. Skeleton & Teeth in Orr's Circle Sci.: Org. Nature I. 166 Most of the bones of fishes are solid or spongy in their interior.

1876 Quain's Elements Anat. (ed. 8) I. 53 The inferior turbinated, maxillo-turbinal, or spongy bone, is a slender lamina, attached [etc.].

b. Of stone, ice, minerals, etc.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > relative position > condition of being open or not closed > an opening or aperture > [adjective] > having (a) hole(s) > full of holes > porous > specific hard substances

spongy1615

1615 G. Sandys Relation of Journey 22 The walls..consisting of great square stone, hard, blacke, and spongie.

1694 tr. F. Martens Voy. Spitzbergen 44 in Narbrough's Acct. Several Late Voy. This Ice becometh very spungy by the dashing of the Sea.

1794 R. Kirwan Elements Mineral. (ed. 2) I. 13 When it [silex] is exceedingly comminuted,..it is light and spungy.

1800 tr. E. J. B. Bouillon-Lagrange Man. Course Chem. I. 333 Hence those tender calcareous, cellular stones, and perhaps also the spungy tufs.

1834 L. Ritchie Wanderings by Seine 74 Such stones as were most spungy and defective, and, of course, most easily cut.

1856 E. K. Kane Arctic Explor. II. xxiii. 231 The falling of some of the party through the spongy ice.

c. Of metals, esp. platinum.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > metal > metal in specific state or form > [adjective] > other states or forms

well-attempereda1460

sheet1582

unstamped1622

unplanished1683

shotten1766

calciform1782

spongy1807

cored1865

glazed1874

stamped1879

unwelded1885

solid-drawn1888

siliconized1920

inoculated1923

deep-drawn1925

stress-relieved1925

projection-welded1933

roll-formed1935

over-aged1953

scalped1958

society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > metal > precious metal > [adjective] > resembling platinum > type of platinum

spongy1807

1807 T. Thomson Syst. Chem. (ed. 3) II. 64 Spongy alumina; when exposed to a red heat, loses 0·58 parts of its weight.

1827 M. Faraday Chem. Manip. xiv. 309 Spongy platina..causes the union of oxygen and oxide of carbon at common temperatures.

1849 D. Campbell Pract. Text-bk. Inorg. Chem. 246 [This] leaves the metal, in a highly divided state, as a greyish-black powder, and known as spongy platinum.

a1884 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Suppl. 845/2 The production of spongy platinum..is a task more easy in appearance than in reality.

a. Resembling a sponge in respect of moisture or capacity for containing this.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > liquid > condition of being or making wet > [adjective]

wetc900

moisty1386

nesha1387

dank?a1400

watery?a1439

sappy?a1500

dankish1540

spongy1600

sluiced1607

madid1615

humidious1630

uvid1656

madent1727

muggy1731

sockya1825

suckeny1878

1602 J. Marston Hist. Antonio & Mellida iv. sig. G2^v Euen this brinish marsh Will squease out teares, from out his spungy cheekes.

1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. ii. i. 382 With th' other hand he gripes and wringeth forth The spungie Globe of th' execrable Earth.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Cymbeline (1623) iv. ii. 351 I saw..the Roman Eagle wing'd From the spungy South, to this part of the West.

1659 S. Titus Killing noe Murder 5 Had not his Highnes had a faculty to be fluent in his teares..: Had he not had spungie eyes [etc.].

1872 Echo 10 Aug. After plenty of rain, with leaden water and a dismal, spongy look everywhere.

figurative.1600 B. Jonson Every Man out of his Humor Induct. sig. Biii With a gripe [to] Crush out the Humor of such spongie soules.1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues at Mer When Princes doe squeeze out of their spungie Officers the moisture which they haue purloyned from them.

b. Resembling a sponge in absorptive qualities; absorbent. Chiefly figurative.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > liquid > action or process of absorbing > [adjective]

soakingc1440

drinking1583

spongy1609

bibbing1633

absorptive1664

absorbing1666

bibulous1676

absorbent1694

insorbent1756

hygroscopic1790

obsorbent1902

1609 W. Shakespeare Troilus & Cressida ii. ii. 11 There is no Lady..More spungy to suck in the sence of feare.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Macbeth (1623) i. vii. 71 What [can we] not put vpon His spungie Officers?

1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics i, in tr. Virgil Wks. 62 Oft whole sheets descend of slucy Rain, Suck'd by the spongy Clouds from off the Main.

c. Of the nature or character of a sponger or parasite; = sponging adj.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > approval or sanction > commendation or praise > flattery or flattering > servile flattery or currying favour > [adjective] > parasitical or sponging

parasiticala1566

smell-feast1566

spongy1602

sharking1608

parasitic1630

sponging1699

coshering1727

scunging1843

freeloading1941

1602 J. Marston Hist. Antonio & Mellida iv. sig. G Blowne vp with the flattering puffes Of spungy Sycophants.

4. figurative. Deficient in substance or solidity.

ΘΚΠ

the world > existence and causation > existence > substantiality or concreteness > unsubstantiality or abstractness > [adjective]

flittingc1374

aerya1398

bottomlessa1413

hollowa1529

flittering1549

wanzing1571

aerial1581

slight1585

flit1590

windy1593

filmy1594

tenuous1597

unsubstantial1597

yeasty1598

thingless1599

airy1600

spare1602

spongy1603

insubstantial1607

baselessa1616

thina1616

insolid1618

insubstantiate1621

tenuious1634

bubble1635

thin-spun1638

subventaneous1646

unsubstanceda1658

whipped1673

aericala1678

huffy1678

blatherya1693

naughty1696

substanceless1784

vapoury1818

aeriform1827

airified1837

blow-away1858

non-substantial1858

unbased1860

evasive1881

stuffless1896

fabricless1905

lighter-than-air1909

1603 J. Florio tr. M. de Montaigne Ess. iii. v. 524 The wordes: no longer windie or spungie, but of fleshe and bone.

1665 J. Webb Vindic. Stone-Heng (1725) 82 To set a petty Gloss upon a spungy Conjecture.

1680 H. More Apocalypsis Apocalypseos 273 R. H. in his answer..is plainly not so much copious as loose and spungy, and not at all solid.

1829 H. D. Best Personal & Lit. Mem. 171 The puffy, spungy,..washy, style that prevails at the present day.

1896 St. James's Gaz. 6 Jan. 4/2 Mr. Olney's English is, as usual, rather spongy.

5. Of texture or other qualities: Resembling that of a sponge.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > relative position > condition of being open or not closed > an opening or aperture > [adjective] > having (a) hole(s) > full of holes > porous > of texture or qualities

spongeousc1600

spongy1611

1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Spongiosité,..a spungie lightnesse.

1633 P. Fletcher Purple Island iv. xxvii. 44 [The lungs] Built of a lighter frame, and spungie mold.

1733 W. Ellis Chiltern & Vale Farming 84 Hollow, spungy Texture of Parts.

1762 A. Dickson Treat. Agric. i. v. 64 The soil may be of a spungy nature.

1800 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 3 199 The sore had an ugly, spungy aspect.

1827 M. Faraday Chem. Manip. xiv. 311 The platina in the spongy state.

1860 J. Tyndall Glaciers of Alps ii. xxvi. 372 The ice on which the dirt-bands rest..appears to be of a spongier character.

figurative.1865 ‘G. Eliot’ in Fortn. Rev. May 43 A spongy texture of mind, that gravitates strongly to nothing.

6. Resembling that pressed from a sponge.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > liquid > [adjective] > qualities of liquid > resembling that pressed from a sponge

spongy1605

1605 G. Ellis Lament. Lost Sheep lxxvii That spungy moysture, that in deadly thrall For thy pale lips the sonnes of men thought meete.

a1864 N. Hawthorne Amer. Note-bks. (1879) II. 191 With a spongy moisture diffused through the atmosphere.

Compounds

spongy-flowered, spongy-footed, spongy-looking, spongy-wet, spongy-wooded adjs.

ΚΠ

1824 J. C. Loudon Green-house Compan. ii. 26 A spongy-wooded green-house shrub.

1829 J. C. Loudon Encycl. Plants (1836) 600 Adlumia cirrhosa; spongy-flower'd.

1835 N. P. Willis Pencillings II. lv. 130 The small donkey..pricking back his long ears as if he were counting his spongy-footed followers.

1855 Ld. Tennyson To Rev. F. D. Maurice xi The lawn as yet Is hoar with rime, or spongy-wet.

1870 H. A. Nicholson Man. Zool. (1875) xiv. 143 It forms spongy-looking, orange-coloured crusts.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	spongy
释义	spongyadj. /ˈspʌndʒi/ Forms: α. 1500s–1800s spungy, 1500s spungye, 1500s–1600s spungie. β. 1500s–1600s spongie, 1600s–1800s spongey, 1600s– spongy. Etymology: < sponge n.¹ + -y suffix¹. 1. Having a soft elastic or porous texture resembling that of a sponge; deficient in solidity or firmness, so as to be readily compressible: a. Of flesh, animal tissue, etc., sometimes with special reference to morbid conditions. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > animal body > general parts > constituent materials > [adjective] > having spongy tissue spongy1539 the world > matter > constitution of matter > softness > types of softness > [adjective] > spongy moorisha1398 fungous?1440 spongy1539 fungy1578 sponge-like1594 airy1598 spongeous1607 fuzzy1616 spongoid1849 the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > diseases of tissue > [adjective] > alteration of tissue > softening spongy1539 mollescent1829 malacic1890 α. 1539 T. Elyot Castel of Helthe (new ed.) 31 b The tounge is of a spungy & sanguine substance. 1545 T. Raynald in tr. E. Roesslin Byrth of Mankynde i. sig. I.vii Leuing al the grosser part in y^e spungye body of the houpecall. 1617 J. Woodall Surgions Mate 24 If the disease be a kinde of spungie flesh. 1695 J. Edwards Disc. conc. Old & New-Test. III. v. 245 The lower part of the Ear..is spungy and flexible. 1712 S. Sewall Diary 4 Jan. (1973) II. 675 Major Walley's Left foot is opened underneath, and found to be very hollow, and spungy. figurative.a1628 F. Greville Alaham ii. iii, in Certaine Wks. (1633) 31 The spungie hearts of men Their hollowes gladly fill with womens loue.β. 1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica iii. xxi. 158 It hath in the tongue a spongy and mucous extremity.1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth V. 250 The muscular, spongy flesh of the tongue.1809 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 21 339 The other parts..were very pulpy, soft, spongy, and broken down.1843 R. J. Graves Syst. Clin. Med. xvi. 192 His mouth became very sore,..his gums spongy.1898 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. V. 204 Islets of spongy tissue separate the individual nodules. b. Of parts of plants, timber, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > appearance of plant > defined by texture > [adjective] > rigid or spongy spongy1578 cartilaginous1682 rigescent1848 the world > space > relative position > condition of being open or not closed > an opening or aperture > [adjective] > having (a) hole(s) > full of holes > porous plummya1398 porousa1398 hollow1398 sponged1398 spongeous1398 porosea1400 spongiousc1400 pory1535 spongy1578 sponge-like1594 lax1615 porish1652 laxy1716 spongiose1755 spongiform1805 spongeoid1822 spongoid1843 polyporous1858 α. 1589 J. Lyly Pappe with Hatchet C iv Elders..being fullest of spungie pith, proue euer the driest kixes. 1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage 506 The wood is of a spungie substance. 1710 C. Whitworth Acct. Russia (1758) 135 Timber..cut in the spring after the sap is run up, which makes the wood spungy. 1769 E. Bancroft Ess. Nat. Hist. Guiana 47 Their internal substance is white, spungy, and saponaceous. 1807 G. Crabbe Birth Flattery in Poems 203 Where spungy Rushes hide the plashy Green. β. 1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball 181 The roote is white and of a spongie substance.1672 N. Grew Anat. Veg. vii. 175 This inner Coat..is a very Spongy and Sappy Body.1785 W. Cowper Task iii. 522 Then rise the tender germs, upstarting quick, And spreading wide their spongy lobes.1842 J. C. Loudon Suburban Horticulturist 182 The shoots there are generally more luxuriant and spongy.1860 J. Ruskin Mod. Painters V. 43 A root [of a tree], properly so called, is a fibre, spongy or absorbent at the extremity.1884 F. O. Bower & D. H. Scott tr. H. A. de Bary Compar. Anat. Phanerogams & Ferns 410 Lamellar cavernous parenchyma.., which from this spongy character has also been called ‘spongy parenchyma’. c. Of ground or soil, esp. through excess of moisture. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > land > ground > [adjective] > soft or spongy softc1175 sinking1531 spongy1652 wood-sear1670 wood-searya1722 the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > earth or soil > soil qualities > [adjective] > soft or yielding > through excess water weta900 clammy1530 waterish1540 weeping1577 spongy1652 stagnant1850 α. 1652 Earl of Monmouth tr. G. Bentivoglio Hist. Relations Flanders 10 The scituation of all the other Provinces is low and spungie. 1677 London Gaz. No. 1224/3 The ground about the place being very spungy in wet weather. 1708 J. C. Compl. Collier 8 in T. Nourse Mistery of Husbandry Discover'd (ed. 3) It must of necessity rise through the spungy Earth. 1799 Scotland Descr. (ed. 2) 16 The morasses, of which the soil is either a spungy turf, or a black consistent peat-earth. 1858 C. Kingsley My Winter-garden in Misc. (1860) I. 151 The soft tread of..horse-hoofs upon the spungy vegetable soil. β. 1692 J. Ray Misc. Disc. v. 155 A spungy kind of Earth.1796 W. Withering Arrangem. Brit. Plants (ed. 3) III. 793 Rotten spongy ground.1818 P. B. Shelley Marenghi xxiv The coarse bulbs of iris-flowers he found Knotted in clumps under the spongy ground.1844 H. Stephens Bk. of Farm I. 507 Where clay is..very spongy, tough, and wet.1889 F. Cowper Capt. of Wight 259 There is not a hole or a spongy place anywhere. d. In miscellaneous applications. ΚΠ 1616 G. Markham tr. C. Estienne et al. Maison Rustique (rev. ed.) v. xx. 577 Neither must it [sc. manchet bread] be made too light or spungie. a1687 W. Petty Polit. Anat. Ireland (1691) 112 The Art of making the excellent, thick, spungy, warm Coverlets, seems to be lost. 1713 J. Gay Rural Sports 3 When floating Clouds their spongy Fleeces drain. 1716 J. Gay Trivia i. 4 The Frieze's spongy Nap is soaked with Rain. 1753 J. Hanway Hist. Acct. Brit. Trade Caspian Sea II. x. 50 Their cloths are spungy, but they are thin, light and soft. 1834 Brit. Husbandry (Libr. Useful Knowl.) I. 340 The ashes..produced from soft soap..will be found light and spongy. 1836–41 W. T. Brande Man. Chem. (ed. 5) 109 The rising of fluids in porous and spongy bodies. e. Of suspension and braking systems in motor vehicles: deficient in firmness. ΘΚΠ society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > powered vehicle > parts and equipment of motor vehicles > [adjective] > type of suspension or braking system regenerative1903 spongy1952 1952 Fradzee & Bedell Automotive Maintenance & Trouble Shooting x. 396 A spongy pedal on hydraulic brake systems may be due to excessive clearance between the shoes and the drum. 1954 I. Fleming Live & let Die xiii. 134 All the fun of driving had been taken out of them..with hydraulic-assisted steering and spongy suspension. 1962 Which? Car Suppl. Oct. 123/1 The Fiat 1500..had one disconcerting point [sc. in its braking system]—the long pedal travel necessary, which always felt ‘spongy’ and gave the impression that there was less power available in the brakes than in fact was the case. 1967 B. C. Macdonald Car Doctor A to Z iii. 19 (heading) Pedal has ‘spongy’ feel. 2. Of hard substances: Having an open porous structure resembling that of a sponge: a. Of bones, spec. of certain bones of the skull. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > structural parts > bone or bones > types of bones > [adjective] rawc1425 foveable?1541 spongy1594 short-grained1694 ossicular1714 ossiculated1752 interhaemal1846 mesopodial1880 1594 T. Bowes tr. P. de la Primaudaye French Acad. II. 123 It is called by the Phisicions the siue-bone, or otherwise and that more properly, the spungy bone. 1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. i. vi. 210 Whereby the moist Braines spongie bone doth sup Sweet smelling fumes. 1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 401 A Splent is a spungy harde grissell or bone, growing fast on the inside of the shin-bone of a Horsse. 1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. at Bone Bones..which have thin solid sides, and a thick intermediate spongy part. 1854 R. Owen Struct. Skeleton & Teeth in Orr's Circle Sci.: Org. Nature I. 166 Most of the bones of fishes are solid or spongy in their interior. 1876 Quain's Elements Anat. (ed. 8) I. 53 The inferior turbinated, maxillo-turbinal, or spongy bone, is a slender lamina, attached [etc.]. b. Of stone, ice, minerals, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > condition of being open or not closed > an opening or aperture > [adjective] > having (a) hole(s) > full of holes > porous > specific hard substances spongy1615 1615 G. Sandys Relation of Journey 22 The walls..consisting of great square stone, hard, blacke, and spongie. 1694 tr. F. Martens Voy. Spitzbergen 44 in Narbrough's Acct. Several Late Voy. This Ice becometh very spungy by the dashing of the Sea. 1794 R. Kirwan Elements Mineral. (ed. 2) I. 13 When it [silex] is exceedingly comminuted,..it is light and spungy. 1800 tr. E. J. B. Bouillon-Lagrange Man. Course Chem. I. 333 Hence those tender calcareous, cellular stones, and perhaps also the spungy tufs. 1834 L. Ritchie Wanderings by Seine 74 Such stones as were most spungy and defective, and, of course, most easily cut. 1856 E. K. Kane Arctic Explor. II. xxiii. 231 The falling of some of the party through the spongy ice. c. Of metals, esp. platinum. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > metal > metal in specific state or form > [adjective] > other states or forms well-attempereda1460 sheet1582 unstamped1622 unplanished1683 shotten1766 calciform1782 spongy1807 cored1865 glazed1874 stamped1879 unwelded1885 solid-drawn1888 siliconized1920 inoculated1923 deep-drawn1925 stress-relieved1925 projection-welded1933 roll-formed1935 over-aged1953 scalped1958 society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > metal > precious metal > [adjective] > resembling platinum > type of platinum spongy1807 1807 T. Thomson Syst. Chem. (ed. 3) II. 64 Spongy alumina; when exposed to a red heat, loses 0·58 parts of its weight. 1827 M. Faraday Chem. Manip. xiv. 309 Spongy platina..causes the union of oxygen and oxide of carbon at common temperatures. 1849 D. Campbell Pract. Text-bk. Inorg. Chem. 246 [This] leaves the metal, in a highly divided state, as a greyish-black powder, and known as spongy platinum. a1884 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Suppl. 845/2 The production of spongy platinum..is a task more easy in appearance than in reality. 3. a. Resembling a sponge in respect of moisture or capacity for containing this. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > liquid > condition of being or making wet > [adjective] wetc900 moisty1386 nesha1387 dank?a1400 watery?a1439 sappy?a1500 dankish1540 spongy1600 sluiced1607 madid1615 humidious1630 uvid1656 madent1727 muggy1731 sockya1825 suckeny1878 1602 J. Marston Hist. Antonio & Mellida iv. sig. G2^v Euen this brinish marsh Will squease out teares, from out his spungy cheekes. 1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. ii. i. 382 With th' other hand he gripes and wringeth forth The spungie Globe of th' execrable Earth. a1616 W. Shakespeare Cymbeline (1623) iv. ii. 351 I saw..the Roman Eagle wing'd From the spungy South, to this part of the West. View more context for this quotation 1659 S. Titus Killing noe Murder 5 Had not his Highnes had a faculty to be fluent in his teares..: Had he not had spungie eyes [etc.]. 1872 Echo 10 Aug. After plenty of rain, with leaden water and a dismal, spongy look everywhere. figurative.1600 B. Jonson Every Man out of his Humor Induct. sig. Biii With a gripe [to] Crush out the Humor of such spongie soules.1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues at Mer When Princes doe squeeze out of their spungie Officers the moisture which they haue purloyned from them. b. Resembling a sponge in absorptive qualities; absorbent. Chiefly figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > liquid > action or process of absorbing > [adjective] soakingc1440 drinking1583 spongy1609 bibbing1633 absorptive1664 absorbing1666 bibulous1676 absorbent1694 insorbent1756 hygroscopic1790 obsorbent1902 1609 W. Shakespeare Troilus & Cressida ii. ii. 11 There is no Lady..More spungy to suck in the sence of feare. View more context for this quotation a1616 W. Shakespeare Macbeth (1623) i. vii. 71 What [can we] not put vpon His spungie Officers? View more context for this quotation 1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics i, in tr. Virgil Wks. 62 Oft whole sheets descend of slucy Rain, Suck'd by the spongy Clouds from off the Main. c. Of the nature or character of a sponger or parasite; = sponging adj. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > approval or sanction > commendation or praise > flattery or flattering > servile flattery or currying favour > [adjective] > parasitical or sponging parasiticala1566 smell-feast1566 spongy1602 sharking1608 parasitic1630 sponging1699 coshering1727 scunging1843 freeloading1941 1602 J. Marston Hist. Antonio & Mellida iv. sig. G Blowne vp with the flattering puffes Of spungy Sycophants. 4. figurative. Deficient in substance or solidity. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > existence > substantiality or concreteness > unsubstantiality or abstractness > [adjective] flittingc1374 aerya1398 bottomlessa1413 hollowa1529 flittering1549 wanzing1571 aerial1581 slight1585 flit1590 windy1593 filmy1594 tenuous1597 unsubstantial1597 yeasty1598 thingless1599 airy1600 spare1602 spongy1603 insubstantial1607 baselessa1616 thina1616 insolid1618 insubstantiate1621 tenuious1634 bubble1635 thin-spun1638 subventaneous1646 unsubstanceda1658 whipped1673 aericala1678 huffy1678 blatherya1693 naughty1696 substanceless1784 vapoury1818 aeriform1827 airified1837 blow-away1858 non-substantial1858 unbased1860 evasive1881 stuffless1896 fabricless1905 lighter-than-air1909 1603 J. Florio tr. M. de Montaigne Ess. iii. v. 524 The wordes: no longer windie or spungie, but of fleshe and bone. 1665 J. Webb Vindic. Stone-Heng (1725) 82 To set a petty Gloss upon a spungy Conjecture. 1680 H. More Apocalypsis Apocalypseos 273 R. H. in his answer..is plainly not so much copious as loose and spungy, and not at all solid. 1829 H. D. Best Personal & Lit. Mem. 171 The puffy, spungy,..washy, style that prevails at the present day. 1896 St. James's Gaz. 6 Jan. 4/2 Mr. Olney's English is, as usual, rather spongy. 5. Of texture or other qualities: Resembling that of a sponge. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > condition of being open or not closed > an opening or aperture > [adjective] > having (a) hole(s) > full of holes > porous > of texture or qualities spongeousc1600 spongy1611 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Spongiosité,..a spungie lightnesse. 1633 P. Fletcher Purple Island iv. xxvii. 44 [The lungs] Built of a lighter frame, and spungie mold. 1733 W. Ellis Chiltern & Vale Farming 84 Hollow, spungy Texture of Parts. 1762 A. Dickson Treat. Agric. i. v. 64 The soil may be of a spungy nature. 1800 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 3 199 The sore had an ugly, spungy aspect. 1827 M. Faraday Chem. Manip. xiv. 311 The platina in the spongy state. 1860 J. Tyndall Glaciers of Alps ii. xxvi. 372 The ice on which the dirt-bands rest..appears to be of a spongier character. figurative.1865 ‘G. Eliot’ in Fortn. Rev. May 43 A spongy texture of mind, that gravitates strongly to nothing. 6. Resembling that pressed from a sponge. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > liquid > [adjective] > qualities of liquid > resembling that pressed from a sponge spongy1605 1605 G. Ellis Lament. Lost Sheep lxxvii That spungy moysture, that in deadly thrall For thy pale lips the sonnes of men thought meete. a1864 N. Hawthorne Amer. Note-bks. (1879) II. 191 With a spongy moisture diffused through the atmosphere. Compounds spongy-flowered, spongy-footed, spongy-looking, spongy-wet, spongy-wooded adjs. ΚΠ 1824 J. C. Loudon Green-house Compan. ii. 26 A spongy-wooded green-house shrub. 1829 J. C. Loudon Encycl. Plants (1836) 600 Adlumia cirrhosa; spongy-flower'd. 1835 N. P. Willis Pencillings II. lv. 130 The small donkey..pricking back his long ears as if he were counting his spongy-footed followers. 1855 Ld. Tennyson To Rev. F. D. Maurice xi The lawn as yet Is hoar with rime, or spongy-wet. 1870 H. A. Nicholson Man. Zool. (1875) xiv. 143 It forms spongy-looking, orange-coloured crusts. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < adj.1539
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