soggy
adjective/ˈsɒɡi/
/ˈsɔːɡi/
(comparative soggier, superlative soggiest)
- wet and soft, usually in a way that is unpleasant
- We squelched over the soggy ground.
- soggy bread
- The ground was a bit soggy.
- I hate it when cornflakes go all soggy.
Oxford Collocations DictionarySoggy is used with these nouns:- bread
- fry
- mess
- …
Word Originearly 18th cent. (in the sense ‘boggy’): from dialect sog ‘a swamp’ + -y.Definitions on the go
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