单词 | foggily |
释义 | foggilyadv. In a foggy manner (in various senses of the adjective).In quot. 1599 the sense is unclear; perhaps compare foggy adj. 2a. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > ability > inability > unskilfulness > [adverb] > clumsily or awkwardly unhagherlyc1175 unslyly?a1400 roughc1400 unslya1425 rudelyc1425 unhandsomely1545 grosslyc1550 untowardly?1550 botcherly?1566 bungerly1574 lubberlike1575 lumpishly1583 clouterly1593 lubberly1594 foggily1599 awkly1603 unwieldilyc1610 cumbersomely1611 uneasily1611 sinisterly1628 left-handedly1648 ungainlya1661 awkwardly1663 clumsily1691 uncleverly1697 wrong1727 unwieldly1793 gawkily1811 maladroitly1827 undexterously1848 flat-footedly1886 ham-fistedly1964 ham-handedly1964 the world > matter > liquid > condition of being or making wet > condition of being slightly wet > [adverb] moistly1590 dampishly1615 foggily1755 dewily1818 muggily1867 a-sweat1879 humidly1886 damply1887 the world > matter > light > darkness or absence of light > dimness or absence of brightness > [adverb] dimly?c1225 obscurelyc1586 foggily1755 dim1821 the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > cloud > mist > [adverb] > in a foggy manner foggily1891 1599 J. Minsheu Percyvall's Dict. Spanish & Eng. 136/3 Grossamente, grossely, rudely, foggily, bungarly. 1635 G. Tooke Legend of Brita-mart sig. D8v Then is the stone-horse in his chiefest pride; the gelding in his toughest ability, neither being..foggily distemper'd. 1736 N. Bailey et al. Dictionarium Britannicum (ed. 2) Foggily, heavily. 1755 S. Johnson Dict. Eng. Lang. Foggily, mistily, darkly, cloudily. 1869 Fraser's Mag. May 595/2 In 1785 Mr. Creighton comes before the world with the following doleful and foggily worded address. 1891 C. Dunstan Quita II. ii. v. 115 It was damply, foggily cold. 1922 ‘B. M. Bower’ Trail of White Mule v. 92 Casey did not know which drift it was, though he tried foggily to remember. 1984 H. Dubrow in M. M. Gullette Art & Craft of Teaching vii. 89 Often that foggily expressed phrase mirrors a foggily conceived thought. 2011 Business Day (S. Afr.) (Nexis) 24 Aug. He foggily picked up the phone and was greeted by a very concerned and very foreign sounding gentleman. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adv.1599 |
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