[
US
/ˈsɑɡi/
]
[ UK /sˈɒɡi/ ]
[ UK /sˈɒɡi/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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having the consistency of dough because of insufficient leavening or improper cooking
the cake fell; it's a doughy mess -
(of soil) soft and watery
swampy bayous
a marshy coastline
quaggy terrain
muddy barnyard
the ground was boggy under foot
miry roads
the sloughy edge of the pond
wet mucky lowland -
slow and apathetic
a sluggish worker
a mind grown torpid in old age
she was fat and inert
How To Use soggy In A Sentence
- Plastic bags, crisp packets, plastic bottles and soggy newspapers lie abundantly in the verges, or caught in trees and hedges.
- With Spartan fortitude he had to squeeze his chilblained feet into wet socks and soggy boots frozen solid.
- There is a piece of soggy tissue stuck to the bottom of my shoe. Times, Sunday Times
- Start the jug swinging and try to insert spoonfuls of soggy cereal into the mouth of the jug while pretending to be a plane.
- I pulled on the soggy roach and took my first lungful of spliff.
- It's where I am reminded that I no longer have to sit next to a goggle-eyed 4th grader with a milk mustache while opening my Gilligan's Island lunchbox and staring with disbelief at yet another soggy braunschweiger sandwich.
- A musty aroma of hunter's stew filled her nostrils, and the sour smell of soggy, rotten straw was almost unbearable all of a sudden.
- I came expecting a smorgasbord of seafood and found only soggy haddock and chips. Times, Sunday Times
- On this night the sky was overcast, the ground soggy from a day's rain and the place mostly deserted.
- More than six inches of rain has drenched an already soggy Los Angeles this holiday weekend.