soily

comparative soilier · superlative soiliest

1. Covered in soil; earthy.

   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, published 2015, page 9

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   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.

   1914, Ernest Bramah [pseudonym; Ernest Brammah Smith], Max Carrados

2. Resembling or characteristic of soil.
3. Dirty; soiled.

   Methinks, Miſs, ſaid Sally, you are a little ſoily, to what we have ſeen you.

   1748, [Samuel Richardson], “Letter CCCXXXIII”, in Clarissa. Or, The History of a Young Lady: […], volume VI, London: […] S[amuel] Richardson; [a]nd sold by John Osborn, […], →OCLC, page 151

4. obsoleteApt to stain.