Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Full of or surrounded by fog.
- adjective Resembling or suggestive of fog.
- adjective Clouded or blurred by or as if by fog; vague.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Abounding or covered with fog or moss.
- Coarse; rank, as grass.
- Same as
fog . - Abounding with fog; damp with fog; misty: as, a foggy morning.
- Hence Figuratively, dull; stupid.
- Dim; not clear; obscure: as, his description was rather foggy.
- In photography, affected by fog; fogged: said of a negative.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Filled or abounding with fog, or watery exhalations; misty
- adjective Beclouded; dull; obscure.
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- adjective Obscured by
mist orfog ;unclear ;hazy - adjective figuratively Confused, befuddled, etc.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective stunned or confused and slow to react (as from blows or drunkenness or exhaustion)
- adjective filled or abounding with fog or mist
- adjective obscured by fog
- adjective indistinct or hazy in outline
Etymologies
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Examples
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Years ago in foggy daleshire [A1], I remember a young C******ous B***** driving a 250 Daimler looking for a racing type sports car at the lights, somehow I smelt a rat and did not take the bait, then she showed me her tail lights and put on her beany.
Motorcycle Daydream « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2009
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He was too tired to talk, in too much pain, and too foggy from the codeine.
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He was too tired to talk, in too much pain, and too foggy from the codeine.
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FORT HOOD, Texas -- The pilot of a military helicopter that crashed in foggy weather and killed all seven aboard asked air controllers about switching from a visual to an instrument flight minutes before the crash, an air traffic control group said Wednesday.
KIA KIA/BNR 2003
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He wrote many years later: There is an important family of gypsies in foggy England, who in remote times developed our family name.
The Romance of Isabel, Lady Burton William Henry Burton Wilkins 1897
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Conditions around the airport were described as foggy when the plane came down a mile from the airport.
Documenting Reality DTXBrian 2010
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Conditions around the airport were described as foggy when the Tupolev Tu-154 came down a mile from the airport.
Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2010
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Conditions around the airport were described as foggy when the Tupolev Tu-154 came down a mile from the airport.
Latest news, breaking news, current news, UK news, world news, celebrity news, politics news 2010
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Conditions around the airport were described as foggy when the Tupolev Tu-154 came down a mile from the airport.
Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2010
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This is the kind of foggy thinking and direction we have come to expect from the independent organization that controls America's most important economic element America's money.
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