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muggy

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12
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15
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5
Pronunciation
/ˈmʌɡi/

Definition of muggy

3 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. (usually)Humid, or hot and humid.
    “The next was a very unpropitious morning for a journey—muggy, damp, and drizzly.”
    “What struck me as the most curious thing about this wonderful river was: how did the air keep fresh? It was muggy and thick, no doubt, but still not sufficiently so to render it bad or even remarkably unpleasant.”
    “The evening, though sunless, had been warm and muggy for the season, and Tess had come out with her milking-hood only, naked-armed and jacketless; certainly not dressed for a drive.”
    “Muggy heat—temperature in the 90s and high humidity—greeted early arrivals for the 72-hole, three-day test, rated the hardest and most important in the sport.”
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adj

  1. (usually)Humid, or hot and humid.
    “The next was a very unpropitious morning for a journey—muggy, damp, and drizzly.”
    “What struck me as the most curious thing about this wonderful river was: how did the air keep fresh? It was muggy and thick, no doubt, but still not sufficiently so to render it bad or even remarkably unpleasant.”
    “The evening, though sunless, had been warm and muggy for the season, and Tess had come out with her milking-hood only, naked-armed and jacketless; certainly not dressed for a drive.”
    “Muggy heat—temperature in the 90s and high humidity—greeted early arrivals for the 72-hole, three-day test, rated the hardest and most important in the sport.”
  2. (obsolete)Wet or mouldy.
    “muggy straw”
  3. (obsolete, slang)Drunk.

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Etymology

From dialectal English mug (“fog, mist; Scotch mist”) + -y, ultimately from Old Norse mugga (“drizzle, mist”); borrowed some time before 1390, when a derived verb, Middle English mugen (“of a fog: to drizzle”), is attested.

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