mochy
/ˈmɒki
/ /ˈmɒxi /adjective Scottish & Northern Irish
(Of the weather) unpleasantly warm and humid: I set off in a mochy drizzle...
- It's been a nasty, wet, mochy, melancholy day for a burial.
- The midges love the mochy weather.
- As he opened the door a strong, mochy dreich smell reeked doon their throats.
Origin
Late 18th century: from moch 'moist, damp, mouldy' + -y1. Compare muggy.
- press-pin
- press plate
- press pot
- press proof
- press release
- press-revise
- press roll
- press room
- press run
- press secretary
- press show
- press-shy
- press something home
- press-spahn
- press stand
- press stud
- press table
- press the button
- press (the) flesh
- press time
- press tool
- press tradition
- press-up
- pressure
- pressure angle