Definitions for muggy

muggy mug·gy

Spelling: [muhg-ee]
IPA: /ˈmʌg i/

Muggy is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 21 anagrams from letters in muggy (ggmuy).

Definitions for muggy

adjective

  1. (of the atmosphere, weather, etc.) oppressively humid; damp and close.

Origin of muggy

1725-35; mug to drizzle (noun and v.) (Scandinavian; compare Old Norse mugga mist, drizzle) + -y1

Examples for muggy

Sunlight will never get through that muggy thick atmosphere!

Sunday was a cloudy, warm day, "muggy," so Captain Zeb described it.

I have heard it complained of as being rather wet and muggy.

It was a hot, muggy, August afternoon—Wednesday in Pittsburgh.

It had been sultry, the first of a long series of sticky, muggy days.

It was a damp, muggy January evening when I journeyed to this suburban retreat.

Noodles & Co. staged its IPO on a sleepy, muggy, low-volume trading day.

"It's getting too muggy to ride—or I'm getting too fat," he said, and patted his paunch.

It was an intensely hot, muggy night, and the mosquitoes were thick.

Then they squeezed the water all out of it so it was kind of damp and muggy like.

Word Value for muggy
Scrable

12

Words with friends

15

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