Meaning of sobby | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Very sad; inclined to sob (weep with convulsive gasps).
2. That has been sobbed (soaked); saturated with moisture.
   archaic
3. Resembling or characteristic of a sob.

Examples

“It began, 'Where is my wandering boy to-night?' and by the time she was through I was feeling so mushy and sobby that I put a five instead of a one into the plate by mistake.”

“Every piece of furniture, from the threadbare sofa to the rickety center table, seems kind of sad and sobby.”

“a sobby sound”

“Nobody knows who he was; but no matter how wet the leaves, how sobby the twigs, no matter if there was no fire in a mile of the camp, that fellow could start one.”

“The original building of the house, and its blood-stained foundation stones; the dead who had died of the pestilence that had raged afterward; the bodies carted by scores and buried in the sobby earth of the graveyard, whose trees loomed up through the broken window; […]”

“The woman served him sullenly, placing some sobby biscuits and a piece of cold bacon on his plate, and pouring out a glass of buttermilk with a vicious thrust of the pitcher.”

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