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spongy
/ˈspʌnd͡ʒi/
adj 3
Collocations
4ADJ.
all, softer
VERB + SPONGY
cake, ground, stuff
SPONGY + NOUN
earth
PREP.
in
Definitions
adj
1
Having the characteristics of a sponge, namely being absorbent, squishy or porous.
spongy earth; spongy cake; spongy bones
Though no man lesser fears the Greeks than I As far as toucheth my particular, Yet, dread Priam, There is no lady of more softer bowels, More spongy to suck in the sense of fear, More ready to cry out 'Who knows what follows?' Than Hector is:
2
Wet; drenched; soaked and soft, like sponge; rainy.
Thy banks with pioned and twilled brims, Which spongy April at thy hest betrims,
Her who still weepes with spungie eyes, And her who is dry corke, and never cries; I can love her, and her, and you and you, I can love any, so she be not true.
3
Drunk.
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spongy earth; spongy cake; spongy bones
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Though no man lesser fears the Greeks than I As far as toucheth my particular, Yet, dread Priam, There is no lady of more softer bowels, More spongy to suck in the sense of fear, More ready to cry out
Wiktionary03
[…] there were times when she would lie looking at her, with such a still, watchful, almost dangerous expression, that Helen would sigh, and change her place, as persons do whose breath some cunning o
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Oooh, sick! What is that stuff? It's all spongy.
Tatoeba · #3621605
The ground is spongy.
Tatoeba · #449908306
Seitan is spongy.
Tatoeba · #12192688Usage Notes
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