spongy

adj

1. Having the characteristics of a sponge, namely being absorbent, squishy or porous.

   “spongy earth; spongy cake; spongy bones”

   “Though no man lesser fears the Greeks than I As far as toucheth my particular, Yet, dread Priam, There is no lady of more softer bowels, More spongy to suck in the sense of fear, More ready to cry out 'Who knows what follows?' Than Hector is:”

   “[…] there were times when she would lie looking at her, with such a still, watchful, almost dangerous expression, that Helen would sigh, and change her place, as persons do whose breath some cunning orator had been sucking out of them with his spongy eloquence, so that, when he stops, they must get some air and stir about, or they feel as if they should be half-smothered and palsied.”

   “It was easy to realise, too, the need for the overall 40 m.p.h. speed limit; apart from the spongy nature of much of the track bed, the [West Highland] line suffered considerably in the Arctic conditions of last winter, from which it has not yet fully recovered.”

2. Wet; drenched; soaked and soft, like sponge; rainy.

   “Thy banks with pioned and twilled brims, Which spongy April at thy hest betrims,”

   “Her who still weepes with spungie eyes, And her who is dry corke, and never cries; I can love her, and her, and you and you, I can love any, so she be not true.”

   “[…] I was quite tired, and very glad, when we saw Yarmouth. It looked rather spongy and soppy, I thought, as I carried my eye over the great dull waste that lay across the river […]”

   “It rains […] most of the fall and winter and much of the spring. It’s a spongy sky you’ll be wearing on your head.”

3. (slang)Drunk.