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muggy

adj.
US //ˈməɡi// UK //mˈʌɡi// mug·gy Archaic Slang
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Origin

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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