单词 | fuggy |
释义 | fuggyadj. colloquial (originally dialect and School slang). Of the air in a room: close, stuffy, and smelly, from want of ventilation. Of persons: addicted to living in such an atmosphere. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > pollution or defilement > environmental pollution > [adjective] > bad air > not ventilated fat1598 airlessa1616 unaired1682 unventilated1712 unperflated1768 mochy1825 fuggy1888 fugged1971 the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > pollution or defilement > environmental pollution > [adjective] > bad air > not ventilated > living in unventilated place fuggy1888 1888 E. F. Benson Sketches from Marlborough i. 15 How beastly fuggy this place is. 1888 E. F. Benson Sketches from Marlborough vi. 58 He was rude enough to say that I was a fuggy beast. 1889 A. Barrère & C. G. Leland Dict. Slang Fuggy (Shrewsbury), stuffy. 1900 Globe 12 Jan. 3/1 They missed the warm, and it must be owned often ‘fuggy’ heat of their old cabins. 1921 Chambers's Jrnl. 19 Feb. 189/1 In the fuggy comfort of the engineer's mess. 1923 U. L. Silberrad Lett. Jean Armiter iv. §3. 102 He came up to the window and I opened it—the artists are rather a fuggy lot indoors. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1888 |
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