[
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
- One has to be a certain age to remember the soggy, steamy awfulness that was the drudgery of washdays when it involved galvanised tubs, poss-sticks and mangles.
- Giorgio Locatelli explains in Made in Italy that pizza has to have "the perfect balance between a thin crisp base and a softer garnish, which is why you have to eat it within 5–6 minutes of it coming out of the oven, or it will be soggy and spoilt". How to cook the perfect pizza
- 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
