# muggy

> English word · Adjective · IPA /ˈmʌɡi/ · frequency rank #51,266

## Definitions
1. Humid, or hot and humid.
2. Wet or mouldy.
3. Drunk.

## Etymology
From dialectal English mug (“fog, mist; Scotch mist”) + -y, ultimately from Old Norse mugga (“drizzle, mist”); borrowed some time before 1390, when a derived verb, Middle English mugen (“of a fog: to drizzle”), is attested.

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/muggy