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soggy

UK/ˈsɒɡi/US/ˈsɑɡi/
adjectiveB2Occasional — familiar, but not everyday · #8,396 of 15,258leans spoken

Soggy means unpleasantly soaked and soft. Soggy chips, a soggy field, the bottom of the box went soggy.

The unpleasantness is built in — nothing is soggy in a good way — which separates it from merely wet or damp. It is used most about food that should have been crisp and about ground that should have been firm. Note soggy bottom, which entered general British use from a baking programme and means an undercooked pastry base. The word is informal and slightly comic, which makes it hard to use in serious writing and easy to use everywhere else.

Definitions of soggy

  1. 1adjectivesoggyUnpleasantly wet and soft.B2

    “The sandwiches had gone soggy by lunchtime.”

    • Said"The chips have gone soggy; you shouldn't have put the lid on."
    • WrittenThe bottom of the pie was soggy, and the top was perfect, which was the usual bargain.
    • UsedBlind-bake the base so the pastry does not turn soggy under the filling.
    • ContrastSoggy, not wet. Wet is any water; soggy is soft, heavy and spoiled by it. wet →
    • Not thisMoist cake is not soggy cake. Moist is a compliment; soggy is a complaint.
    • Exchange"How's the cereal?""Soggy. I talked too long."
    • SimplyThe bread is soggy. It is soft and cold.

    Patternsoggy + noun (chips, bottom, cereal) · go soggy · a soggy mess · sogginess

    synonyms: waterlogged, sodden

soggy is a wet state.

Also accepted in games: waterlogged

Remember it

SOGGY → a wet DOGGY in from the rain

A dog comes in from the rain, and so does your sandwich from the bottom of the bag: wet, soft, and falling apart.

Where it comes from

From sog + -y.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practised in In the Kitchen, Sharper Adjectives

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soggy in the wild

  • Soups with thinner bases are not generally served in bread bowls, as the broth would make the bread get too soggy too quickly.

    Bread bowl

  • Compared to Oreos, Hydrox cookies have a less sweet filling and a crunchier cookie shell that is less soggy when dipped in milk.

    Hydrox

  • In Australia, it is also known as soggy SAO after the SAO brand of biscuits that are popular there.

    Soggy biscuit

  • "One Night Stand" received a mixed response from critics, who praised both Hilson and Brown's vocals, but was criticized for being a "soggy duet".

    One Night Stand (Keri Hilson song)

From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.