muggy
adj/ˈmʌɡi/
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.
- derived from mugga
Definitions
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.
Wet or mouldy.
- muggy straw
Drunk.
The neighborhood
- synonymclose
- synonymheavy
- synonymmuggy
- synonymoppressive
- synonymsteamy
- synonymsticky
- synonymsultry
- synonymsweltering
- synonymtropic
- synonymtropical
- antonymarid
- antonymtorrid
- antonymclammy
- antonymdank
- antonymraw
- neighborhot
- neighborwet
- neighborwindless
- neighborairless
- neighborfrowsty
- neighboroverclose
- neighborstifling
- neighborstuffy
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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA