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adjective, -gi·er, -gi·est.
1.
thick with or having much fog; misty: a foggy valley; a foggy spring day.
2.
covered or enveloped as if with fog: a foggy mirror.
3.
blurred or obscured as if by fog; not clear; vague: I haven't the foggiest notion of where she went.
4.
bewildered; perplexed.
5.
Photography. affected by fog.
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Foggy
is always a great word to know.
So is workprint. Does it mean:
| the preparation of the final sound track of a film or video production, including the mixing of sound effects and dialogue |
| the first positive print of a film, assembled from the dailies: used in the editing process |
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| foggy (ˈfɒɡɪ) | |
| —adj , -gier, -giest | |
| 1. | thick with fog |
| 2. | obscure or confused |
| 3. | another word for fogged |
| 4. | not the foggiest, not the foggiest idea, not the foggiest notion no idea whatsoever: I haven't the foggiest |
| 'foggily | |
| —adv | |
| 'fogginess | |
| —n | |
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Word Origin & History
foggy
1540s, perhaps from a Scandinavian source, or formed from fog + -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 punning allusion to political murkiness)
EXPANDpopularized 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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