Soaken

[Benjamin Barrett]

Wiktionary gives "soaken" (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/soaken) as an obsolete adjective, yet it's very much alive here in Seattle. I heard it today. Until now, I had parsed it as "soaked" but realized today it is different. I think it's most common as a collocation: "soaken wet."

The last citation for "soaken" in the OED is 1898. It strikes me as colloquial or dialectical, though it's not labelled.

Benjamin Barrett
Formerly of Seattle, WA

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