soily
adj/sɔɪ.li/ · /sɔɪ.ə.li/
Etymology From soil + -y.
1
Covered in soil; earthy.
- Bellmark put the soily tin down on Elsie's best table-cover without eliciting a word of reproach, grasped it firmly with his left hand, and worked the opener round the top.1914, Ernest Bramah, Max Carrados:
- A woman with a well-to-do south voice told me to wash my soily hands before touching her messages.1995, Alan Warner, Morvern Callar, Vintage, published 2015, page 9:
2
Resembling or characteristic of soil.
3
Dirty; soiled.
- Methinks, Miſs, ſaid Sally, you are a little ſoily, to what we have ſeen you.1748, [Samuel Richardson], “Letter CCCXXXIII”, in Clarissa. Or, The History of a Young Lady: […], volume VI, London: […] S[amuel] Richardson; [a]nd sold by John Osborn, […], →OCLC, page 151:
4
Obsolete Apt to stain.
- Derived terms
- soiliness