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fog⋅gy

  [fog-ee, faw-gee]
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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.
Origin:
1520–30; fog 2 + -y 1 ; orig. meaning marshy, thick, murky

Related forms:
fog⋅gi⋅ly, adverb
fog⋅gi⋅ness, noun

Synonyms:
3. fuzzy, hazy, dim, murky, muddled.
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fog·gy   (fô'gē, fŏg'ē)   
adj.   fog·gi·er, fog·gi·est
    1. Full of or surrounded by fog.
    2. Resembling or suggestive of fog.
  2. Clouded or blurred by or as if by fog; vague: had only a foggy memory of what happened; hasn't the foggiest idea how to get home.
fog'gi·ly adv., fog'gi·ness n.
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Foggy

Fog"gy\, a. [Compar. Foggier; superl. Foggiest.] [From 4th Fog.]

1. Filled or abounding with fog, or watery exhalations; misty; as, a foggy atmosphere; a foggy morning. --Shak.

2. Beclouded; dull; obscure; as, foggy ideas.

Your coarse, foggy, drowsy conceit. --Hayward.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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Language Translation for : foggy
Spanish: nebuloso, brumoso, de niebla,
German: nebelig,
Japanese: 霧のかかった
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