muggy
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muggy
- /ˈmʌɡi/
Rhymes with -ʌɡi
Where it comes from
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.
adjective muggier · muggiest
- Humid, or hot and humid. The next was a very unpropitious morning for a journey—muggy, damp, and drizzly.
- Wet or mouldy. muggy straw
- Drunk.
Similar: close, heavy, muggy, oppressive, steamy, sticky, sultry, sweltering, tropic, tropical
