Sunday, August 12, 2007

I AM MUGGY, YOU ARE MUGGY, IT IS MUGGY

MUGGY:
Warm and extremely humid.

Origins:

1731, from mugen "to drizzle" (c.1390), from O.N. mugga "drizzle, mist," related to mjukr "soft," or O.N. mygla "mold," which is cognate with L. mucus "snot."

EXAMPLE: It feels muggy in here.

BETTER EXAMPLE: The air feels like soft, moldy, snot.


4 comments:

Anonymous said...

"Got Estrogen?"

Anonymous said...

Now if you were just an Ogre it would be perfect! HA!

Anonymous said...

MUGGY.  MUGGIER.  MUGGIEST.  It's UGLY, UGLIER, UGLIEST.  Couldnt' agree more Mrs. L.

Cathy
www.lessonsfromlou.blogspot.com

Anonymous said...

It looks like muggy left us and went to you.  Today felt like good-old furnace hot, the way it usually does.

So it's baked snot vs. soft moldy snot.  (You just can't win.)
Anna