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foggy, a.|ˈfɒgɪ|
Also (in sense 1 feggy) Sc. fuggie.
[f. fog n.1 + -y1.
The identity of the word in its various senses is somewhat doubtful, but the development of meaning suggested below seems plausible.]
1. a. Resembling, consisting of, or covered with ‘fog’ or coarse grass. b. Sc. Covered with moss, mossy.
1635Tom a Lincolne ii. in Thoms Prose Rom. (1858) II. 332 Toads croaking in foggy grasse. 1747R. Maxwell Sel. Trans. Soc. Improv. Agric. Scot. 18 It may be laid down with Grass seeds..so to ly, unless it turn sour or foggy. 1790A. Wilson Disconsolate Wren Poet. Wks. (1846) 96, I spied a bonny wee bit Wren, Lone on a fuggy stane. 1806A. Douglas Poems 87 Yonder foggy mountain. a1810Tannahill Poems (1846) 75 He liked to stray, By fuggie rocks, or castle gray. 1875‘Stonehenge’ Brit. Sports i. i. v. §5. 92 A field of good feggy grass.
†2. Boggy, marshy. Obs.
a1568Coverdale Bk. Death i. xl. 160 He that is fallen into a depe foggy wel and sticketh fast in it. 1577B. Googe Heresbach's Husb. (1586) 78 In the loamie and leane ground, as in the fatte and foggie. [Cf. sense 3.] 1651R. Child in Hartlib's Legacy (1655) 11 Low, moist, foggy ground. a1661Fuller Worthies, Bedfordsh. i. (1662) 114 The foggy fens in the next County.
†3.
a. Of flesh, etc.: Flabby or spongy in consistency; not solid; = boggy a.
b. Hence of persons or animals: Unwholesomely bloated, swollen with flabby and unhealthy corpulence, puffy. Also quasi-adv. in foggy fat. Obs.
a1529Skelton Elynour Rummyng 483 All foggy fat she was. 1530Palsgr. 313/1 Foggy to full of waste flesshe. 1562W. Bullein Dial. Soarnes & Chir. 29 b, In case the fleshe appere foggie and fattishe. 1565Golding Ovid's Met. xv. (1567) 189 b, Then greene, and voyd of strength, and lush, and foggye, is the blade. 1603Knolles Hist. Turks (1621) 530 Which [horses] being foggie fat, and delicately brought up. 1618Chapman Hesiod ii. 24 And with a leane hand, stroke a foggie foot. 1657S. Purchas Pol. Flying-Ins. 40 They return to feed, and that alwayes of the purest honey, whereby they may become so foggy, that [etc.]. a1704T. Brown Praise Poverty Wks. 1730 I. 100 Drowned in foggy quagmires of fat and dropsy. 1741Compl. Fam. Piece ii. i. 300 Being very fat and foggy by means of their gross Food. 1817Sporting Mag. L. 26 How foggy, unwieldly..and helpless are such crazy mortals. 1828Carr Craven Gloss., Foggy, fat, gross.
†c. Of food: Apt to puff up the body. Obs.
1657S. Purchas Pol. Flying-Ins. i. xv. 93 Woad, which affords a foggy food that over-lades the Bees. 1761Earl Pembroke Milit. Equit. (1778) 123 All sorts of grains are foggy feeding, and though they plump up the body, they do not give a wholesome and sound fat.
†d. Of ale, etc.: Full of floating particles, thick. Obs. Cf. fat a. 7 a.
1619Pasquil's Palin. (1877) 155 The Draymans Beere is not so cleere, and foggy Ale is thicker. 1764Low Life 67 In search of..thick foggy Beer and Ale.
4. a. Of air, mist, cloud, etc.: Thick, murky. Hence (through fog n.2, which appears to be a back-formation from this sense): Of the nature of, or resembling, fog or thick mist; full of, or abounding in, fog.[For the development of this sense from 3, cf. fat a. 7 c, and Lat. pinguis aer, pingue cælum. But some of the quotations suggest allusion to sense 2.] 1544Late Exped. Scotl. C ij b, That mornynge being very mystie and foggie. 1548Udall, etc. Erasm. Par. Luke xviii. 34 With muche foggie derkenesse. 1570Turberv. Penitent Louer Epitaphes, etc. 112 With errors foggie mist at first, that Reason gaue no light. 1600Shakes. A.Y.L. iii. v. 50 Like foggy South, puffing with winde and raine. 1624Wotton Archit. 3 That it [the Aire] be not..subiect to any foggy noysomenesse from Fenns or Marshes neere adioyning. 1627May Lucan v. (1635) Iij b, The thicke aire was..clogg'd with foggy stormes. 1733–4Berkeley Let. to Prior 22 Jan. Wks. 1871 IV. 212, I myself have gotten a cold this sharp foggy weather. 1797Nelson in A. Duncan Life (1806) 44 The action happening on a foggy day. 1812P. Hawker Diary (1893) I. 63 The..foggy asthmatic town of Glasgow. 1859Mrs. Carlyle Lett. III. 15 On a foggy October morning. 1877M. M. Grant Sun-Maid i, He pointed across the foggy valley. 1885L'pool. Daily Post 1 May 4/9 Days of foggy drizzle.
b. fig. Obscure, dull, bemuddled, confused.
In some of the earlier quots. the sense may be 3, which in fig. use coincides nearly with this sense.
1603Hayward Answ. to Doleman ii. 35 Your course, foggie, drowsie conceite, that there are few or none simple monarchies in the world. 1637J. Pocklington Altare Chr. xxiv. 172 A dull device of a foggie braine and willing blunderer. 1737Ozell Rabelais I. 365 His Understanding must be very foggy. 1771Foote Maid of B. i. Wks. 1799 II. 214 Your rival is a fusty, foggy, lumbering log! 1888Burgon Lives 12 Gd. Men I. iii. 358 Making merry over some extremely foggy production.
5. a. Of the eye: Beclouded, dim.b. Not clear to one's mind, etc., dim, indistinct. Used negatively in superl., with ellipsis of idea, notion.
1840Dickens Barn. Rudge (1849) 90/2 A dull and foggy sort of idea that Mrs. Varden wasn't fond of him. 1847Alb. Smith Chr. Tadpole xix. (1879) 177 The cold foggy grey eyes of the old lady looked after him. 1883F. M. Crawford Dr. Claudius i. 7 All this uncertain saturation of foggy visions and contradictory speculations. 1917Punch 22 Aug. 145 Uncle. ‘..Wonder who she is.’ Niece. ‘Haven't the foggiest. Must be pre-war.’ 1933D. L. Sayers Murder must Advertise viii. 147 ‘Who was the benefactor?’ ‘I don't know. Do you, Mr. Bredon?’ ‘Haven't the foggiest.’ 1951J. B. Priestley Festival at Farbridge ii. iii. 375 ‘Is that a good idea?’ asked Laura. ‘My dear, I haven't the foggiest.’ 1966I. Jefferies House Surgeon iii. 27 ‘D'you know where he's to be found at this time?’ ‘Haven't the foggiest.’ 1967P. McGerr Murder is Absurd i. 14 ‘Then you've no idea what his play's about?’ ‘Not the foggiest,’ she said cheerfully.
6. Photogr. Fogged, indistinct. Cf. fog n.2 4.
1859Photogr. News 9 Sept. 7 A greater tendency to give foggy pictures. 1873Spon Workshop Rec. i. 292/2 Many weak thin foggy negatives.
7. slang. Not quite sober.
1823Moor Suffolk Words, Foggy, a quaint term for one ‘somewhat bemused in beer’; not very clear-headed. 1867in Smyth Sailor's Word-bk.
8. Comb., as foggy-brained.
1594Nashe Terrors Nt. Wks. (Grosart) III. 232 Feeding on foggie-braind melancholly. |