sodden

Meanings

Adjective

• Soaked or drenched with liquid; soggy, saturated.
• Boiled.
• Drunk; stupid as a result of drunkenness.
• Dull, expressionless (of a person’s appearance)

Verb

• To drench, soak or saturate.
• To become soaked.

Related

Similar words

• blank, stonefaced

Origin

• From Middle English sodden, soden, from Old English soden, ġesoden, from Proto-Germanic *sudanaz, past participle of Proto-Germanic *seuþaną. Cognate with West Frisian sean, Dutch gezoden, German Low German saden, söddt,
• German gesotten, Swedish sjuden, Icelandic soðinn. More at seethe.