"sobby" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From sob + -y.",
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      "form": "sobbier",
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      "form": "sobbiest",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
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          "ref": "1903, George Horace Lorimer, Old Gorgon Graham",
          "text": "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.",
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          "ref": "1917, Sewell Ford, Wilt Thou Torchy",
          "text": "Every piece of furniture, from the threadbare sofa to the rickety center table, seems kind of sad and sobby.",
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        "Very sad; inclined to sob (weep with convulsive gasps)."
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        {
          "ref": "1882, Carlton McCarthy, Detailed Minutiae of Soldier life in the Army of Northern Virginia, 1861-1865",
          "text": "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.",
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        {
          "ref": "1887, Thomas Nelson Page, “No Haid Pawn”, in In Ole Virginia; Or, Marse Chan and Other Stories, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner's Sons, pages 180–181",
          "text": "The original building of the house, and its blood-stained foundation stones; the dead who had died of the pestilence that had raged afterward; the bodies carted by scores and buried in the sobby earth of the graveyard, whose trees loomed up through the broken window; […]",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1902, Ellen Glasgow, The Battle Ground",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "That has been sobbed (soaked); dripping wet."
      ],
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          "wet",
          "wet#Adjective"
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  "word": "sobby"
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          "ref": "1903, George Horace Lorimer, Old Gorgon Graham",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1917, Sewell Ford, Wilt Thou Torchy",
          "text": "Every piece of furniture, from the threadbare sofa to the rickety center table, seems kind of sad and sobby.",
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        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Very sad; inclined to sob (weep with convulsive gasps)."
      ],
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          "sad",
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          "sob",
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          "ref": "1882, Carlton McCarthy, Detailed Minutiae of Soldier life in the Army of Northern Virginia, 1861-1865",
          "text": "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.",
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          "ref": "1887, Thomas Nelson Page, “No Haid Pawn”, in In Ole Virginia; Or, Marse Chan and Other Stories, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner's Sons, pages 180–181",
          "text": "The original building of the house, and its blood-stained foundation stones; the dead who had died of the pestilence that had raged afterward; the bodies carted by scores and buried in the sobby earth of the graveyard, whose trees loomed up through the broken window; […]",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1902, Ellen Glasgow, The Battle Ground",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
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        "That has been sobbed (soaked); dripping wet."
      ],
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          "wet",
          "wet#Adjective"
        ]
      ]
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  "word": "sobby"
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