muggy
意味
- (天候が)蒸し暑い,うっとうしい
例文
It was too muggy for me to get to sleep last night.
昨夜はとても蒸し暑くて寝付けませんでした。
It is less muggy today than it was yesterday.
今日は昨日ほど蒸し暑くない。
The last three days have been really muggy.
ここ3日間はすごく蒸し暑い。
語源
英語の原文(Wiktionary)
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.