foggy
pronunciation
How to pronounce foggy in British English:
UK [ˈfɒɡi]
How to pronounce foggy in American English:
US [ˈfɑːɡi]
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- Adjective:
- filled or abounding with fog or mist
- stunned or confused and slow to react (as from blows or drunkenness or exhaustion)
- indistinct or hazy in outline
- obscured by fog
Word Origin
- foggy (adj.)
- 1540s, of the air, "full of thick mist," perhaps from a Scandinavian source, or formed from fog (n.1) + -y (2). Foggy Bottom "U.S. Department of State," is 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."
Example
- 1. The morning is expected to be cool and foggy .
- 2. Turov , belarus : a fisherman rides a bicycle during a foggy morning
- 3. Saralonde say 's : foggy air that can be seen and frozen water , that 's two .
- 4. I reached this pier one foggy morning and I found this moment was " like no other " .
- 5. There is a further dada dimension to the story : it lies in a foggy internet zone between truth and fiction .