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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Muggy \Mug"gy\ (m[u^]g"g[y^]), adjective [Compar. {Muggier} (m[u^]g"g[i^]*[~e]r); superl. {Muggiest}.] [Cf. Icel. mugga mist, mugginess. Cf. 4th {Mold}.]
1. Moist; damp; moldy; as, muggy straw.
2. Warm, damp, and windless; uncomfortably hot and humid; sultry; as, muggy air, weather.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
muggy
adjective: hot or warm and humid; "muggy weather"; "the steamy tropics"; "sticky weather" [syn: {steamy}, {sticky}] [also: {muggiest}, {muggier}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
28 Moby Thesaurus words for "muggy": boggy, clammy, close, damp, dampish, dank, dewy, fenny, humid, marshy, moist, mucky, oppressive, rainy, roric, roriferous, soggy, steamy, sticky, stifling, stuffy, suffocating, sultry, swampy, tacky, undried, wet, wettish
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