sposhy

Then after one ineffectual jab at the brake, I left the machine hurriedly, and as I sat down on the sposhy lawn I heard a tremendous but not unmusical sound of falling glass ----

The Wit and Humor of America, Volume X (of X) Various 1887

When the bear had passed, the snow had been soft and sposhy, and she had "slumped," he said, several inches.

Birds and Bees, Sharp Eyes and Other Papers John Burroughs 1879

There's a sight o 'difference between good upland fruit and the sposhy apples that grows in wet ground.

A Country Doctor and Selected Stories and Sketches Sarah Orne Jewett 1879