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muggy en · ADJ

Pronunciation

  • /ˈmʌɡi/
  • (Southern-England) audio

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.

Meanings

  1. (of the weather, qualifier:air, usually) Humid, or hot and humid.
    • 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. 1887, H[enry] Rider Haggard, chapter X, in Allan Quatermain […], London: Longmans, Green, and Co., →OCLC:
    • 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. 1964 June 16, “All Eyes On Lema At U.S. Open This Week”, in The Indianapolis Star, volume 62, number 11, Indianapolis, Ind., page 22:
    • The next was a very unpropitious morning for a journey—muggy, damp, and drizzly. 1836 March – 1837 October, Charles Dickens, chapter XXXV, in The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1837, →OCLC:
    • 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. 1891, Thomas Hardy, chapter XXIX, in Tess of the d’Urbervilles: A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: James R[ipley] Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., […], →OCLC:
  2. (obsolete) Wet or mouldy.
    • muggy straw
  3. (obsolete, slang) Drunk.

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
muggier Degree=Cmp lexicographic
muggiest Degree=Sup lexicographic

Antonyms

arid · raw · torrid · dank · clammy

Deriveds

mugginess · muggily · unmuggy

Hypernyms

windless · wet · hot

Hyponyms

stuffy · stifling · airless · frowsty · overclose

Synonyms

steamy · sticky · sweltering · tropical · sweltering · close · sultry · sultry · oppressive · sticky · heavy · muggy · tropic · oppressive · close

Translations (29)

fi kuumankostea (humid or hot and humid) · mi korire (humid or hot and humid) · mi haitutu (humid or hot and humid) · cy trymaidd (humid or hot and humid) · ga meirbh (humid or hot and humid) · pdt schwool (humid or hot and humid) · ota حریر (humid or hot and humid) · ru ду́шный (humid or hot and humid) · ota ایصی (humid or hot and humid) · ja 蒸し暑い (humid or hot and humid) · de schwül (humid or hot and humid) · cy mwll (humid or hot and humid) · fr humide (humid or hot and humid) · mn ᠪᠦᠭᠴᠢᠮ (humid or hot and humid) · cmn 悶熱 /闷热 (humid or hot and humid) · la aestifer (humid or hot and humid) · ca xafogós (humid or hot and humid) · bg задушен (humid or hot and humid) · be ду́шны (humid or hot and humid) · it afoso (humid or hot and humid) · ota حرارتلو (humid or hot and humid) · mn бүгчим (humid or hot and humid) · et lämbe (humid or hot and humid) · fr étouffant (humid or hot and humid) · ru спёртый (humid or hot and humid) · pl parny (humid or hot and humid) · ru уду́шливый (humid or hot and humid) · pl duszny (humid or hot and humid) · cy clòs (humid or hot and humid)