▪ I. fuggy, a. colloq. (orig. dial. and School slang).
(ˈfʌgɪ)
[f. fug n. + -y1; or fug may be a back-formation from this. Cf. fog n.2 and foggy a.]
Of the air in a room: close, stuffy, and smelly, from want of ventilation. Of persons: addicted to living in such an atmosphere.
| 1888 E. F. Benson Sks. fr. Marlborough i. 15 How beastly fuggy this place is. Ibid. vi. 58 He was rude enough to say that I was a fuggy beast. 1889 Barrrère & 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. J. Armiter iv. §3. 102 He came up to the window and I opened it—the artists are rather a fuggy lot indoors. |
▪ II. fuggy
Sc. form of foggy a.3