soggy
Americanadjective
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soggier,
comparative
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soggiest
superlative
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soaked; thoroughly wet; sodden.
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damp and heavy, as poorly baked bread.
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spiritless, heavy, dull, or stupid.
a soggy novel.
adjective
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soaked with liquid
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(of bread, pastry, etc) moist and heavy
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informal lacking in spirit or positiveness
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Etymology
Origin of soggy
1590–1600; dial. sog bog + -y 1; compare Norwegian (dial.) soggjast to get soaked
Explanation
Soggy things are extremely wet or very soft and doughy. A soggy washcloth is dripping with water, and your soggy pizza dough sticks to the counter when you try to knead it. If your dog escapes while you're attempting to give him a bath, you'll have a soggy dog running around your house, and if you hang your laundry on the clothesline before a storm, you'll have a bunch of soggy clothes. The origin of this adjective is mysterious—we know it comes either from sog, meaning "bog or swamp" in an English dialect, or the obsolete verb sog, "become soaked."
Vocabulary lists containing soggy
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Along the undercroft corridor, a series of modest but well-conceived exhibits tells the story of the Memorial’s construction—highlighted by a display of boots, shovels and other detritus recovered from the soggy floors.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026
He poked at the steps on a back stairway and the water-damaged tiles disintegrated like soggy saltines.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 25, 2026
The Bear, Jimmy’s money pit, might as well be housed within slabs of soggy, stale Saltines.
From Salon ● Jun. 28, 2026
"It was a soggy welly, with, like, Fairy Liquid and a bit of salt."
From BBC ● Apr. 17, 2026
An argument could break out at any moment—over lost car keys or bars of soggy soap or burned toast.
From "Blended" by Sharon M. Draper
It will be soggier farther north, including around Buffalo.
From New York Times ● Apr. 3, 2024
The soggier she and the newspapers become, the more difficult it is to hold it all together.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 16, 2023
The Tongan blast was much soggier: The eruption started under the ocean, so it shot up a plume with much more water than usual.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 22, 2022
As we finished — a little soggier, a little grumpier — the rain stopped.
From Washington Post ● May 27, 2021
The ground grew soggier, the grass grew taller, and soon the robot and the gosling were looking across a wide, murky pond.
From "The Wild Robot" by Peter Brown
December was one of the soggiest months in recent memory.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 5, 2022
Between Sept. 1 and Nov. 30, Seattle has received more than 19 inches of rain, according to the National Weather Service, making it one of the soggiest autumns ever.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 1, 2021
It was a night for everyone to trot out their nicest outfits and their soggiest ballads.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 8, 2015
When I moved to Cape Town from New York in April 2013, at the beginning of its soggiest season, bypassing summer altogether in my transhemispheric migration, I daydreamed about the floral spectacle.
From New York Times ● Apr. 23, 2014
Soddeneyed with lack of sleep and outraged at her taciturnity, I breakfasted alone on the soggiest wheatcakes and the muddiest coffee I have ever demeaned my stomach with.
From Greener Than You Think by Ward Moore
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