sobby

Very sad; inclined to sob (weep with convulsive gasps).

It began, 'Where is my wandering boy to-night?' and by the time she was through I was feeling so mushy and sobby that I put a five instead of a one into the plate by mistake.

Every piece of furniture, from the threadbare sofa to the rickety center table, seems kind of sad and sobby.

Resembling or characteristic of a sob.

a sobby sound

That has been sobbed (soaked); saturated with moisture.

Nobody knows who he was; but no matter how wet the leaves, how sobby the twigs, no matter if there was no fire in a mile of the camp, that fellow could start one.

The original building of the house, and its blood-stained foundation stones; the dead who had died of the pestilence that had raged afterward; the bodies carted by scores and buried in the sobby earth of the graveyard, whose trees loomed up through the broken window; […]