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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