muggy
adjective/ˈmʌɡi/
/ˈmʌɡi/
- (of weather) warm and slightly wet in an unpleasant way synonym close2
- a muggy August day
Oxford Collocations DictionaryMuggy is used with these nouns:- night
- weather
Word Originmid 18th cent.: from dialect mug ‘mist, drizzle’, from Old Norse mugga.Want to learn more?
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