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Muggy   Listen
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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



... coated, met us at the front door. She has a trick of doing things by lightning. We started; Barbara and Jaffery at the back, I sideways to them on one of the little chair seats. We had the car open, as it was a muggy day. . . . It is astonishing how such trivial matters stick in one's mind. . . . We went, as I ...
— Jaffery • William J. Locke

... in her hand, Honora went thoughtfully up the stairs to her sitting-room. The month was February, the day overcast and muggy, and she stood for a while apparently watching the holes made in the snow by the steady drip from the cap of the garden wall. What she really saw was the face of Mrs. Israel Simpson, a face that had haunted her these many ...
— The Crossing • Winston Churchill

... day, a few weeks after I went to work for the Evening Press, when for once anyway the major didn't seem to have anything to say. It was in the middle of a blistering, smothering hot forenoon in early June, muggy and still and close, when a fellow breathing felt as though he had his nose buried in layers of damp cotton waste. The city room was a place fit to addle eggs, and from the composing room at the back the stenches ...
— The Escape of Mr. Trimm - His Plight and other Plights • Irvin S. Cobb

... for five days, during which period we had much variety of weather—sometimes blowing hard from East-South-East to East-North-East with squalls and thick gloomy weather—at other times nearly a calm, the air disagreeably close and muggy, the temperature varying from 75 to 85 ...
— Narrative Of The Voyage Of H.M.S. Rattlesnake, Commanded By The Late Captain Owen Stanley, R.N., F.R.S. Etc. During The Years 1846-1850. Including Discoveries And Surveys In New Guinea, The Louisiade • John MacGillivray

... close, muggy, and suffocatingly hot day when I at length emerged from this condition of extreme mental and physical suffering. My cabin port stood wide open close to my head, but not even the faintest breath of air came through it. Presently I became aware of a sound which I quickly identified ...
— The First Mate - The Story of a Strange Cruise • Harry Collingwood

... me, and my morbidness vanished. The Director was delighted with my improved condition. Poor man! he was positive that my cheeks had puffed out perceptibly after the first two months. So the winter came—a mild, wet, muggy winter, wholly unlike my favorite sharp season ...
— Stories by American Authors, Volume 6 • Various

... story of the ghost which is said to haunt the house, just before going to bed. As far as I remember, it was only mentioned at luncheon, and then sceptically. Instead of there being snow falling outside and an eerie wind wailing through the skeleton trees, the night was still and muggy. Lastly, I did not know, until the journal reached my hands, that he was put into the room known as the Haunted Chamber, nor that in that room the fire is noted for casting weird shadows upon the walls. This, however, may be so. The legend of the manor-house ghost he tells precisely as it is known ...
— My Lady Nicotine - A Study in Smoke • J. M. Barrie

... a muggy heat, more suggestive of July than of the rare June weather of poets, there has begun the exodus of summer camp folk, those men and women who add to the slender salary of the teaching profession the additional income made by running camps for boys and girls during the long vacation. ...
— How To Write Special Feature Articles • Willard Grosvenor Bleyer



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



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