soily
English
Etymology
Adjective
soily (comparative soilier, superlative soiliest)
- Covered in soil; earthy.
- 1995, Alan Warner, Morvern Callar, Vintage, published 2015, page 9:
- A woman with a well-to-do south voice told me to wash my soily hands before touching her messages.
- Resembling or characteristic of soil.
- Dirty; soiled.
- 1748, [Samuel Richardson], “Letter CCCXXXIII”, in Clarissa. Or, The History of a Young Lady: […], volume VI, London: […] S[amuel] Richardson; […], →OCLC, page 151:
- Methinks, Miſs, ſaid Sally, you are a little ſoily, to what we have ſeen you.
- (obsolete) Apt to stain.