soily
English
Etymology
Adjective
soily (comparative soilier, superlative soiliest)
- Covered in soil; earthy.
- 1995, Alan Warner, Morvern Callar, Vintage 2015, p. 9:
- 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 2015, p. 9:
- Resembling or characteristic of soil.
- Dirty; soiled. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Fuller to this entry?)
- (obsolete) Apt to stain.