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   muggy

   /ˈmʌɡi/

   adjective

   • 1. (of the weather) unpleasantly warm and humid: "it was a hot, very muggy evening"

   Word Origin mid 17th century: from dialect mug ‘mist, drizzle’, from mug ‘to drizzle’, probably from Old Norse; compare with Icelandic mugga ‘to snow in calm weather’, Norwegian mugga ‘to drizzle’.

   Derivatives

   • 1. mugginess noun

   Scrabble Points: 12

   • M

     3

   • U

     1

   • G

     2

   • G

     2

   • Y

     4

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