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muggy

English

Etymology

From Old Norse mugga (drizzle, mist).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /?m??i/
  • Rhymes: -??i

Adjective

muggy (comparative muggier, superlative muggiest)

  1. (Of the weather, air, etc) humid, or hot and humid.
  2. (obsolete) wet or mouldy
    muggy straw

Synonyms

  • (of the weather): close, oppressive, sticky, sultry

Translations

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stifling

English

Adjective

stifling (comparative more stifling, superlative most stifling)

  1. That stifles.
    The heat was stifling; it seemed hard to breathe and the exertion of rolling over on the bed seemed too much.

Translations

Verb

stifling

  1. present participle of stifle

Noun

stifling (plural stiflings)

  1. The act by which something is stifled.
    • 1857, Henry Clay Fish, Pulpit eloquence of the nineteenth century (page 507)
      Every man who is destroyed must destroy himself. When a man stifles an admonition of conscience, he may fairly be said to sow the stiflings of conscience.

Anagrams

  • filsting, fistling, flitings, liftings

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