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sodden

adj
/ˈsɒ.dən/UK/ˈsɑ.dən/US

Etymology

From Middle English sodden, soden, from Old English soden, ġesoden, from Proto-Germanic *sudanaz, past participle of Proto-Germanic *seuþaną (“to seethe; boil”). Cognate with West Frisian sean, Dutch gezoden (“seethed, boiled”) (related to Dutch zode (“swampy land”)), Low German saden, söddt, German gesotten, Swedish sjuden, Icelandic soðinn. More at seethe.

  1. derived from *seuþaną✻ — “to seethe; boil”
  2. inherited from *sudanaz✻
  3. inherited from soden
  4. inherited from sodden

Definitions

  1. Soaked or drenched with liquid

    Soaked or drenched with liquid; soggy, saturated.

    • It is found, indeed, that meat, roaſted by a fire of peat or turf, is more ſodden than when coal is employed for that purpoſe.
    • The outfalls are choked, the dams are perforated by crabs or broken down by floods, and soon the ground becomes more and more sodden.

  2. Boiled.

    • The thirde [drynke] is of that kinde of hony named Pechmes, whiche is made of newe wine sodden, vntill the third parte be boyled awaye […]
    • […] howe Almidor the blacke King of Moroco was sodden to death in a cauldrone of boyling leade and brimstone.

  3. Drunk

    Drunk; stupid as a result of drunkenness.

    • 1595, George Peele, The Old Wives’ Tale, The Malone Society Reprints, 1908, line 560, You whoreson sodden headed sheepes-face […]
    • […] thou sodden-witted lord! thou hast no more brain than I have in mine elbows […]
  4. ›+ 3 more definitions

    1. Dull, expressionless (of a person’s appearance).

      • Remoue and march, soft and faire Gentlemen, soft and faire: double your files, as you were, faces about. Now you with the sodden face, keepe in there […]

    2. To drench, soak or saturate.

      • 1862, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Lady Audley's Secret She had cooked for him a mutton-chop, which was soddening itself between two plates upon the little table near the fire.

    3. To become soaked.

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Derived

soddenly, soddenness, unsodden

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at sodden. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

01sodden02saturated03moisture04moist05humid06watery07soaked08drenched

A definitional loop anchored at sodden. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

8 hops · closes at sodden

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA