Definitions

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  • noun The quality or state of being soggy; soddenness; wetness.

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  • noun The property of being soggy.

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  • noun a heavy wetness

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Examples

  • The top was bubbling hot, and the base was super crispy, with no sogginess whatsoever, in spite of the use of very fresh tomatoes.

    In which I barbecue a pizza « We Don't Count Your Own Visits To Your Blog 2009

  • I left the five littlest ones in various stages of sogginess and mess to help the older ones sort through the pile of mittens, hats, scarves and parkas to find the matching sets I knew they had arrived with yesterday.

    Chicken Soup for the Soul: Grandmothers Jack Canfield 2011

  • Sun Belt sogginess bogged down the excitement in Sunday's TV sports.

    Networks' efforts get sunk by Sunday showers 2009

  • Whether people got bored with PC, or decided its work was done, or subsided into that passive sogginess that so troubles the prime minister, it is unusual these days to find a loony council accused of rewriting our treasured nursery rhymes or of exchanging Christmas for Winterval.

    If you really want to hurt someone, call them a Gervais | Catherine Bennett 2011

  • Our taste for the tarte au citron, which can now be found in varying degrees of sogginess on every supermarket cake shelf in the country, is apparently largely thanks to the Roux brothers, who, in the 1980s, served up what Lindsey Bareham describes as a "lemon tart like no other" at the Waterside Inn and Le Gavroche.

    How to cook perfect tarte au citron 2011

  • Containers are likely to “sweat” a little when they thaw, too, so wrap them up well to avoid any sogginess soaking through.

    Packs Trading | SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles 2009

  • I left the five littlest ones in various stages of sogginess and mess to help the older ones sort through the pile of mittens, hats, scarves and parkas to find the matching sets I knew they had arrived with yesterday.

    Chicken Soup for the Soul: Grandmothers Jack Canfield 2011

  • I could guess that the scene on deck was a spectacle, and at six o'clock, as gray light showed through my ports in the intervals when they were not submerged, I essayed the side-board of my bunk like a gymnast, captured my careering slippers, and shuddered as I thrust my bare feet into their chill sogginess.

    CHAPTER XXX 2010

  • The clouds are long gone, and so is the sogginess.

    Forecast: Sun, low humidity deliver two great days 2010

  • It's not just the sogginess: the astral projections and the infinities of the third eye, the violets and the oranges, the levitating the Pentagon and the "I saw God and she's black".

    Posh; The Empire; Hair 2010

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