🍞 Wet and heavy 🌧️ Very wet

soggy

18 1.1

A wet, heavy, doughy texture in cooked food

adjective
/ˈsɔɡi/

: empapado

Today they shared a lunch of soggy fish sticks and canned English peas and watched an episode of Guiding Light.
soggy bread
soggy cereal
soggy sandwich

Just get like a soggy croissant that isn't flaky at all.

Examples

'Cause not everybody likes it on the cake 'cause it makes it very soggy.

When Harry Met Sally... (1989)
It's like real soggy and then kind of a burnt taste on the outside.
And it's a little soggy, to be honest.

The Blind Side (2009)
Yeah, this thing just a little, it gets kind of soggy and weird when it's wet.
It's like a big hunk of soggy bread.

Mobsters (1991)
Cereal looks a little soggy.

Roadkill (1989)
That is a good, solid recreation of the original experience, even without sauce and with some soggy lettuce.
When she realized she'd put too much mayonnaise on it so that it was soggy, she felt like crying.

Fiction book (1999)
Soggy pancakes.

Nick of Time (1995)
The pancakes were soggy, lacking the light texture that makes them fluffy.

Synonyms

doughy

vssoggy

6 4.6

Soft and slightly sticky inside like undercooked bread

is denser and heavier rather than soft and sticky

stodgy

vssoggy

1 7.5

Heavy, filling food that is hard to digest

is a heavy undercooked texture rather than mainly hard to digest

Antonyms

fluffy

77 1.0

Soft and light, like fur or feathers

crispy

67 1.0

Food that is firm and makes a sharp sound when you bite it

Compounds

soggy knees

6.2

Knees made wet and uncomfortable by rain, mud, or wet clothes

How Dense

dense

9 3.2

soggy

18 1.1

airy

13 2.3

Surface Forms

soggy positive

soggier comparative

soggiest superlative

Morphology

soggy = sog (opaque) = sog + y

'Sog' is not a standalone or familiar English word, so the derivation is opaque to learners.

Etymology

The word soggy is easy to remember if you think of soak, which means 'to make very wet'; food left too wet becomes heavy and doughy, so we call it soggy.