soily

English

Etymology

From soil +‎ -y.

Adjective

soily (comparative soilier, superlative soiliest)

1. 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.

2. Resembling or characteristic of soil.
3. Dirty; soiled. (Can we add an example for this sense?)

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Fuller to this entry?)

4. (obsolete) Apt to stain.