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Webster 1913 Edition


Soily

Soil′y

,
Adj.
Dirty; soiled.
[Obs.]
Fuller.

Definition 2024


soily

soily

English

Adjective

soily (comparative more soily, superlative most soily)

  1. (obsolete) Apt to stain.
  2. Dirty (now chiefly with soil).
    • 1995, Alan Warner, Morvern Callar, Vintage 2015, p. 9:
      A woman with a well-to-do south voice told me to wash my soily hands before touching her messages.