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soggy, a. orig. dial. and U.S.|ˈsɒgɪ|
Also 9 dial. zoggy.
[f. sog n.1 or v.
In B. Jonson Ev. Man out of Hum. iii. ii. [viii.] (‘this greene and soggie multitude’) the correct reading is prob. ‘foggie’, a common word at that date.]
1. Of land: Soaked with water or moisture; boggy, swampy, marshy.
a1722Lisle Husb. (1757) 49 If the ground falls small, then it may lie soggy and spungy. 1805W. H. Marshall Rur. Econ. W. Eng. (ed. 2) I. 398 Zoggy, wet, boggy. 1869B. Taylor Byeways of Europe I. 247 The soil..already looked soggy and drenched. 1896Godey's Mag. Apr. 351/2 These country roads are..frost-laden and wet, and soft and soggy.
2. a. Saturated with wet; soppy, soaked.
a1852F. 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. 1863B. Taylor H. Thurston xii. 155 He looked out on..fields of soggy, soaked snow. 1886Harper's Mag. Dec. 98 Crumbly, soggy timber. 1897Kipling Capt. Cour. 19 All he brought up was a soggy packet of cigarettes. 1964[see plastic-macked s.v. plastic n.3 5].
b. Resulting from, caused by, moistness or wetness.
1876Duhring Dis. Skin 126 The skin is observed to be of a whitish or yellowish color, and to have a soggy appearance. 1881Harper's Mag. Oct. 650 Every footstep giving out a soggy wheeze from his old wet boots.
3. Of bread: Sodden, heavy.
1868Whymper Alaska v. 61 We varied a diet of soggy bread with a kind of thin paste or soup. 1903T.P.'s Weekly 4 Sept. 436/1 Bread is burnt and soggy.
4. a. Of persons: Dull, spiritless.
1896Advance (Chicago) 16 July 88/1 The Slavs are a passive, gregarious, soggy race. 1911Galsworthy Patrician ii. xxi. 277 The passers-by..looked soft, soggy, without pride or will.
b. Of things, in various transf. and fig. uses: dull, lifeless, lacking in vigour, sluggish; (of steering) unresponsive.
1928[see dawk n.2 b]. 1932[see blimey int.]. 1957J. Braine Room at Top xxv. 205 The steering [of a car] was low-geared and more than a trifle soggy. 1965G. McInnes Road to Gundagai v. 79 The poor fellow found the evening hanging pretty soggy on his hands. 1966Williams & 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. 1977Gramophone 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.
1896Baden-Powell Matabele Campaign xix, We rattled along through the bush,..all the time in deep, soggy heat. 1901W. Churchill The Crisis ii. xiv, The day had been soggy and warm.
Hence ˈsogginess.
1884J. G. Bourke Snake Dance of Moquis xv. 173 The sogginess of the roads made slow marching necessary. 1900Westm. Gaz. 16 Aug. 5/3 The sogginess of the ground. |