spongy

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spongy englannista suomeksi

  1. sienimäinen

spongy englanniksi

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

  2. (ux)

  3. (RQ:Shakespeare Troilus and Cressida)

  4. {{quote-book|en|year=1861|author=Oliver Wendell Holmes|title=Elsie Venner|location=Boston|publisher=Ticknor & Fields|volume=2|chapter=28|page=246|url=https://archive.org/details/elsievennerroman02holmrich

  5. (quote-journal)

  6. Wet; drenched; soaked and soft, like sponge; rainy.

  7. (RQ:Shakespeare Tempest)

  8. {{quote-book|en|year=1633|author=John Donne|chapter=The Indifferent|title=Poems|location=London|publisher=John Marriot|page=200|url=http://name.umdl.umich.edu/A69225.0001.001

  9. (RQ:Dickens David Copperfield) I was quite tired, and very glad, when we saw (w). It looked rather spongy and soppy, I thought, as I carried my eye over the great dull waste that lay across the river (..)

  10. (quote-text)|url=https://archive.org/details/newlifemala00mala|page=21|publisher=Penguin|year_published=1968

  11. Drunk.