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Muggy   Listen
adjective
Muggy  adj.  (compar. muggier; superl. muggiest)  
1.
Moist; damp; moldy; as, muggy straw.
2.
Warm, damp, and windless; uncomfortably hot and humid; sultry; as, muggy air, weather.





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"Muggy" Quotes from Famous Books



... and with like effect. The invariable condition of unhealthy seasons and days is a state of rarefaction and stagnation of the atmosphere, when the poison-freighted vapor cannot be lifted and dispersed, and every one complains of the sultry, close, "muggy" (meaning murky) feeling of the air. Few reflect, when fretted by the boisterous winds of March, upon the vital office they perform in dispersing and sanitating the bacteria-laden exhalations let loose by the first ...
— Scientific American Supplement, Vol. XV., No. 388, June 9, 1883 • Various
... hilly, dwarf forest-covered country: as we advanced, trees increased in size, but no people inhabited it; we spent a miserable night at Katette, wetted by a heavy thunder-shower, which lasted a good while. Morning (5th December) muggy, clouded all over, and rolling thunder in distance. Went three hours with, for a wonder, no water, but made westing chiefly, and got on to the Lokuzhwa again: all the ...
— The Last Journals of David Livingstone, in Central Africa, from 1865 to His Death, Volume I (of 2), 1866-1868 • David Livingstone
... muggy the day we crossed into the northern hemisphere, and the light breeze died away again, leaving the ship with her courses clewed up, rolling and wallowing uneasily ...
— Mr. Trunnell • T. Jenkins Hains


Words linked to "Muggy" :   wet, sticky, mugginess, steamy


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