Foggy
adj ·Moderate ·High school level
Definitions
- 1 Obscured by mist or fog; unclear; hazy.
"At Esher we were getting out into bright sunshine, and apart from another foggy patch between Farnborough and Winchfield, we had a clear run from then on."
- 2 Confused, befuddled, etc. figuratively
"He was still foggy with sleep."
- 3 Being, covered with, or pertaining to fog (“tall grass etc that grows after, or is left after, cutting; moss”)
"For they will feed on foggy grass and such like. Also ye shall understand that horses and Cattel may not well be foddered in Winter all together, but […]"
- 1 obscured by fog wordnet
- 2 filled or abounding with fog or mist wordnet
- 3 indistinct or hazy in outline wordnet
- 4 stunned or confused and slow to react (as from blows or drunkenness or exhaustion) wordnet
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More examples"She slowly disappeared into the foggy forest."
Etymology
From fog + -y, originally in the sense "covered with tall grass; marshy; thick". It is not clear whether fog (“mist”) is a back-formation from foggy (“covered with tall, obscuring grass”) or has a separate Germanic origin, and hence whether foggy (“covered with tall grass”) and foggy (“obscured by mist”) represent one word or two. See fog ("mist"; "tall grass") for more.
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