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▪ I. fuggy, a. colloq. (orig. dial. and School slang).|ˈfʌgɪ|
[f. fug n. + -y1; or fug may be a back-formation from this. Cf. fog n.2 and foggy a.]
Of the air in a room: close, stuffy, and smelly, from want of ventilation. Of persons: addicted to living in such an atmosphere.
1888E. F. Benson Sks. fr. Marlborough i. 15 How beastly fuggy this place is. Ibid. vi. 58 He was rude enough to say that I was a fuggy beast. 1889Barrrère & Leland Dict. Slang, Fuggy (Shrewsbury), stuffy. 1900Globe 12 Jan. 3/1 They missed the warm, and it must be owned often ‘fuggy’ heat of their old cabins. 1921Chambers's Jrnl. 19 Feb. 189/1 In the fuggy comfort of the engineer's mess. 1923U. L. Silberrad Lett. J. Armiter iv. §3. 102 He came up to the window and I opened it—the artists are rather a fuggy lot indoors.
▪ II. fuggy
Sc. form of foggy a.3 |