sodden

/ˈsɒ.dən/

Etymology

From Middle English sodden, soden, from Old English soden, ġesoden, from Proto-Germanic *sudanaz, past participle of Proto-Germanic *seuþaną (“to seethe; boil”). Cognate with West Frisian sean, Dutch gezoden (“seethed, boiled”) (related to Dutch zode (“swampy land”)), Low German saden, söddt, German gesotten, Swedish sjuden, Icelandic soðinn. More at seethe.

sodden means soaked or drenched with liquid; soggy, saturated. Lexicurio rates it Distinctive — a strength score of 68 out of 100.

sodden is pronounced /ˈsɒ.dən/.

adj

Soaked or drenched with liquid; soggy, saturated.“It is found, indeed, that meat, roaſted by a fire of peat or turf, is more ſodden than when coal is employed for that purpoſe.”
Boiled.“The thirde [drynke] is of that kinde of hony named Pechmes, whiche is made of newe wine sodden, vntill the third parte be boyled awaye […]”
Drunk; stupid as a result of drunkenness.“1595, George Peele, The Old Wives’ Tale, The Malone Society Reprints, 1908, line 560, You whoreson sodden headed sheepes-face […]”
Dull, expressionless (of a person’s appearance).“Remoue and march, soft and faire Gentlemen, soft and faire: double your files, as you were, faces about. Now you with the sodden face, keepe in there […]”

verb

To drench, soak or saturate.“She had cooked for him a mutton-chop, which was soddening itself between two plates upon the little table near the fire.”
To become soaked.