How do you pronounce soily?

The recorded pronunciation is /sɔɪ.li/.

soily

/sɔɪ.li/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

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adj

adj

adj

Obsolete

"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."
"A woman with a well-to-do south voice told me to wash my soily hands before touching her messages."
"Methinks, Miſs, ſaid Sally, you are a little ſoily, to what we have ſeen you."

From soil + -y.

soilier (comparative) soiliest (superlative)

soiliness

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