dampy, a.
(ˈdæmpɪ)
[f. damp n.1 + -y.]
† 1. Full of, or of the nature of (noisome or gloomy) vapour or mist; foggy. Obs.
| 1600 Tourneur Transp. Metamorph. v, O see how dampy shewes yond' torche's flame. Ibid. lxxx, How like blacke Orcus lookes this dampy cave. 1605 Drayton Man in Moon 363 The dampy Mist, From earth arising. 1729 Savage Wanderer iii. 284 Dispers'd, the dark and dampy vapours fly. |
| fig. a 1627 Hayward Edw. VI (1630) 141 To dispell any dampie thoughts which the remembrance of his unkle might raise. |
b. Of a mine: Infested with ‘damps’ or noxious gases.
| 18.. Weale (cited in Encycl. Dict.), When foul gases do not move freely by the ordinary natural ventilation in a colliery, it is said to be dampy. |
2. Affected with moisture; somewhat damp.
| a 1691 Boyle Wks. VI. 397 (R.) Very dampy vapours about the mouth of the baroscope. 1710 Philips Pastorals iii. 42 His beauteous Limbs upon the dampy Clay. 1820 Blackw. Mag. VII. 677 The clay-hole you live in, cold, dirty and dampy. |