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muggy.

Humid, or hot and humid.

5 characters2 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

adj/ˈmʌɡi/
  1. Humid, or hot and humid.

    usually
  2. Wet or mouldy.

    obsolete
    muggy straw
  3. Drunk.

    obsolete · slang
Where this word 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.

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