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Original entry ↗adj
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryCovered in mist; foggy. · Dim; vague; obscure. · With tears in the eyes; dewy-eyed.
From Middle English misty, mysty, misti, from Old English mistiġ (“misty, dark”), from Proto-West Germanic *mistig (“misty”), equivalent to mist + -y. Cognate with Scots misty, mistie (“misty”), West Frisian mistich (“misty, foggy”), Dutch mistig (“misty, foggy”), German Low German mistig (“foggy”).
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