foggy

[fog-ee, faw-gee]

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adjective, fog·gi·er, fog·gi·est.

thick with or having much fog; misty: a foggy valley; a foggy spring day.
covered or enveloped as if with fog: a foggy mirror.
blurred or obscured as if by fog; not clear; vague: I haven't the foggiest notion of where she went.

bewildered; perplexed.
Photography. affected by fog.

Origin of foggy

1520–30; fog² + -y¹; orig. meaning marshy, thick, murky

Related formsfog·gi·ly, adverbfog·gi·ness, nounun·fog·gy, adjective

Can be confusedfoggy fogy

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3. fuzzy, hazy, dim, murky, muddled.

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Examples from the Web for foggy

Contemporary Examples

On a cold, foggy night On Feb 26, 1998 I walked out a dingy hotel in handcuffs.
I Detoxed from Heroin in Jail
Tracey Mitchell
June 28, 2014
Do you realize that after six in the evening it fogs over and is foggy at dawn, too?
Pablo Escobar’s Private Prison Is Now Run by Monks for Senior Citizens
Jeff Campagna
June 7, 2014
“Its foggy wording and odd locution stand out in the Constitution,” Waldman writes.
The True Meaning of the Second Amendment
Malcolm Jones
May 31, 2014
Clinton has much to be proud of from her Foggy Bottom tenure, reset included.
Kudos to Hillary for Playing the Hitler Card
Michael Tomasky
March 7, 2014
Back at Foggy Bottom… More than three years after U.S. troops withdrew from Iraq, nation-building proceeds apace.
P.J. O’Rourke on Foreign Policy and France, Hold the Swiss
P. J. O’Rourke
January 17, 2014

Historical Examples

But our foggy English climate and stodgy people call for it.
The Cruise of the Dry Dock
T. S. Stribling
She took me down, to the sea gate at the end of a warm, still, foggy day.
The Harbor
Ernest Poole
He had prepared his sermon on those three foggy days that began the week.
A Singer from the Sea
Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr
It was pitch dark, foggy as ever, and the tide a-risin' fast.
The Depot Master
Joseph C. Lincoln
But these memories are all foggy and mixed with dreams and nightmares.
The Rise of Roscoe Paine
Joseph C. Lincoln

British Dictionary definitions for foggy

foggy

adjective -gier or -giest

thick with fog
obscure or confused
another word for fogged
not the foggiest, not the foggiest idea or not the foggiest notion no idea whatsoeverI haven't the foggiest

Derived Formsfoggily, adverbfogginess, noun

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Word Origin and History for foggy

adj.

1540s, perhaps from a Scandinavian source, or formed from fog (n.1) + -y (2). Foggy Bottom "U.S. Department of State," from the name of a marshy region of Washington, D.C., where many federal buildings are (also with a suggestion of political murkiness) popularized 1947 by James Reston in "New York Times," but he said it had been used earlier by Edward Folliard of "The Washington Post."

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Synonyms

Examples from the Web for foggy

Contemporary Examples

On a cold, foggy night On Feb 26, 1998 I walked out a dingy hotel in handcuffs.

Do you realize that after six in the evening it fogs over and is foggy at dawn, too?

“Its foggy wording and odd locution stand out in the Constitution,” Waldman writes.

Clinton has much to be proud of from her Foggy Bottom tenure, reset included.

Back at Foggy Bottom… More than three years after U.S. troops withdrew from Iraq, nation-building proceeds apace.

Historical Examples

But our foggy English climate and stodgy people call for it.

She took me down, to the sea gate at the end of a warm, still, foggy day.

He had prepared his sermon on those three foggy days that began the week.

It was pitch dark, foggy as ever, and the tide a-risin' fast.

But these memories are all foggy and mixed with dreams and nightmares.

foggy

Word Origin and History for foggy

adj.

Origin of foggy