foggy
Betekenis (Engels)
- Obscured by mist or fog; unclear; hazy
- Confused, befuddled, etc.
- Being, covered with, or pertaining to fog (“tall grass etc that grows after, or is left after, cutting; moss”)
Synoniemen
hard to see
very dark
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Uitgesproken als (IPA)
/ˈfɒɡi/
Etymologie (Engels)
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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