a. Now dial. and U.S. [f. SOB v.2] Soaked; saturated with moisture; soppy.
1611. Cotgr., s.v. Evieux, Sobbie earth, soyle full of springs.
1615. Crooke, Body of Man, 66. The sobby and waterish places of the body.
1720. Welton, Suffer. Son of God, II. xv. 398. Lying upon the cold and Sobby Ground.
1847. in N. Amer. Rev., Jan., 191. Sent in their wet and sobby condition to New York.
1854. Miss Baker, Northampt. Gloss., s.v. Sob, The land is very sobby.
1887. T. N. Page, in Scribner’s Mag., I. 416/2. The bodies carted by scores and buried in the sobby earth of the graveyard.
