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spongy (iou)



spongy adjective. Also spongey, spungy. LME.
[from SPONGE noun1 + -Y1.]
Resembling a sponge in being soft and porous, compressible, or elastic. LME.
H. Stephens Flour that rises..with yeast into a spongy dough. I. Colegate Her wrinkled spongy face fell into an expression of brooding discontent.
b. Of a motor vehicle's suspension or braking system: lacking firmness. M20.
Of a hard substance: having an open porous structure like that of a sponge. L16.
Sodden with or yielding up moisture; absorbent like a sponge. L16.
b. Of moisture: resembling that pressed from a sponge. E17.
fig. Lacking definition or substance; vague, inexact. E17.
spongily adverb L19.
sponginess noun E17.