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the texture that bounces back from everything except your honest review of it
means Soft, springy, and full of little air pockets — yielding when pressed and then springing back, like a sponge or a slightly underbaked cake.
from From 'sponge' plus the adjective ending '-y.' 'Sponge' came into English through Latin 'spongia,' itself borrowed from Greek 'spongia' (or 'sphongos'), the name for the soft, porous sea creature whose dried skeleton has been used for washing and soaking since antiquity. So to call something 'spongy' is to say it behaves like that absorbent, squashable animal — a word that has soaked up its meaning from the Mediterranean seabed.
- origin
- named after sea sponges, ancient animals without brains
- brakes
- spongy pedal means dangerous air in the lines
- bone
- spongy bone inside you is lighter than solid
- cake
- the highest praise a sponge can earn
- science
- trapped air pockets create the springy give
spongy bone — trabecular tissue inside bones like femurs and vertebrae, makes up about 20% of skeletal mass
spongy moth — lymantria dispar, invasive pest in north america since 1868, defoliates millions of acres annually
spongy encephalopathy — pathological condition in mad cow disease and cjd, creates holes in brain tissue under microscopy