soggy
/ˈsɒɡi
/adjective (soggier, soggiest)
Very wet and soft: we squelched through the soggy ground...
- Both of them make great soup; and you must be here on a soggy afternoon to know how valuable a good bowl of steaming soup is.
- The soggy firewood was gathered, tents put up, and a line strung between trees to hang the wet gear to dry.
- The sodden rocket would not ignite and his soggy parachute failed to open.
Synonyms
soft and wet, mushy, squashy, pulpy, pappy, slushy, sloppy, squelchy, squishy, oozy, doughy, semi-liquid, over-moist;
swampy, marshy, boggy, miry, fenny;
soaking, soaked, soaked through, wet through, saturated, drenched, sopping (wet), dripping (wet), wringing (wet)
informal gooey, gloopy
British informal squidgy
rare quaggy, pulpous
Derivatives
soggily
- The waffle-ice cream nexus has a sublime moment of perfection before the ice cream melts and before the waffle cools and the crust soggily succumbs to the pooling glacé.
- Erin deflated to his normal self and fell soggily to the floor.
- Gilly glowered soggily at him from behind the overflowing basin, wielding a large sponge and a rather nasty-looking scrub brush.
sogginess
- Pastry appears again beneath the milk chocolate tart, and it is flawless, flaky and fresh, without a hint of the sogginess of almost every other restaurant tart shell.
- The simple bun does its duty, holding up well and resisting sogginess.
- Steaming or boiling takes around the same time, and boiled broccoli should be carefully drained to avoid sogginess.
Origin
Early 18th century (in the sense 'boggy'): from dialect sog 'a swamp' + -y1.