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spongy

adj
/ˈspʌnd͡ʒi/

Etymology

From spong(e) + -y.

  1. derived from σπογγιά
  2. derived from spongia
  3. inherited from spunge
  4. inherited from sponge
  5. suffixed as spongy — “sponge + y”

Definitions

  1. Having the characteristics of a sponge, namely being absorbent, squishy or porous.

    • spongy earth; spongy cake; spongy bones

  2. Wet

    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.
    • […] I was quite tired, and very glad, when we saw Yarmouth. It looked rather spongy and soppy, I thought, as I carried my eye over the great dull waste that lay across the river […]

  3. Drunk.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at spongy. 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.

01spongy02soft03easily04anxiety05distressing06distressful07strain08organism09fungus

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

9 hops · closes at spongy

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