From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Soggy \Sog"gy\, a. [Compar. {Soggier}; superl. {Soggiest}.] [Cf.
Icel. s["o]ggr damp, wet, or E. soak.]
Filled with water; soft with moisture; sodden; soaked; wet;
as, soggy land or timber.
[1913 Webster]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
soggy
adj 1: (of soil) soft and watery; "the ground was boggy under
foot"; "a marshy coastline"; "miry roads"; "wet mucky
lowland"; "muddy barnyard"; "quaggy terrain"; "the
sloughy edge of the pond"; "swampy bayous" [syn: {boggy},
{marshy}, {miry}, {mucky}, {muddy}, {quaggy}, {sloppy},
{sloughy}, {soggy}, {squashy}, {swampy}, {waterlogged}]
2: having the consistency of dough because of insufficient
leavening or improper cooking; "the cake fell; it's a doughy
mess" [syn: {doughy}, {soggy}]
3: slow and apathetic; "she was fat and inert"; "a sluggish
worker"; "a mind grown torpid in old age" [syn: {inert},
{sluggish}, {soggy}, {torpid}]
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