Adjective

(en adjective)

Very sad; inclined to sob

*{{quote-book, year=1903, author=George Horace Lorimer, title=Old Gorgon Graham, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=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. }}

*{{quote-book, year=1917, author=Sewell Ford, title=Wilt Thou Torchy, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=Every piece of furniture, from the threadbare sofa to the rickety center table, seems kind of sad and sobby . }}

(by extension) Dripping wet

*{{quote-book, year=1882, author=Carlton McCarthy, title=Detailed Minutiae of Soldier life in the Army of Northern Virginia, 1861-1865, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=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. }}

*{{quote-book, year=1902, author=Ellen Glasgow, title=The Battle Ground, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=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. }}

Adjective

(er)

Slobbish.

* 1972 , Anonymous, Go Ask Alice

I've put on seven ugly, fat, sloppy, slobby pounds and I don't have anything I can wear. I'm beginning to look as slobby as I feel.

* 1981 , Robert Westall, The Scarecrows?

He'd thought Joe Moreton a great slobby lump; and Joe had not been a great slobby lump. Joe Moreton at least was a man.

Slobbery.

* 1998 , Francisco Goldman, The Ordinary Seaman

A huge, slobby dog was in love with another huge, slobby dog wearing a pink bow in her collar

* 2001 , Gillian Cross, The Dark Behind the Curtain?

All chewed and slobby with spit. He must have taken huge bites. Like someone starving.

(Canada) Slushy, like slob ice.

* 2003 , Michael Crummey, Flesh and Blood (page 38)

They had to run for his father and then launch a skiff into the slobby ice, half poling, half hauling toward the spot where he'd last been seen