Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗adj
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryHumid, or hot and humid. · Wet or mouldy. · Drunk.
From dialectal English mug (“fog, mist; Scotch mist”) + -y, ultimately from Old Norse mugga (“drizzle, mist”); borrowed some time before 1390, when a derived verb, Middle English mugen (“of a fog: to drizzle”), is attested.
Relationships mentioned by the source
These are extracted mentions, not a timeline or a verified sequence of immediate parents.
- Derivation mentionmugganon
Inspect preserved source fields
Raw extraction fields are retained for auditing. Their order does not establish ancestry.
{
"templates": [
{
"name": "suf",
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "",
"3": "y"
},
"expansion": "+ -y"
},
{
"name": "der",
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "non",
"3": "mugga",
"4": "",
"5": "drizzle, mist"
},
"expansion": "Old Norse mugga (“drizzle, mist”)"
},
{
"name": "m+",
"args": {
"1": "enm",
"2": "mugen",
"3": "",
"4": "of a fog: to drizzle"
},
"expansion": "Middle English mugen (“of a fog: to drizzle”)"
}
],
"links": [
[
"mug",
"mug#English"
],
[
"-y",
"-y#English"
],
[
"mugga",
"mugga#Old_Norse"
],
[
"mugen",
"mugen#Middle_English"
]
],
"references": [],
"descendants": [],
"lexical": [
{
"pos": "adj",
"glosses": [
"Humid, or hot and humid.",
"Wet or mouldy.",
"Drunk."
],
"tags": [
"usually",
"obsolete",
"slang"
],
"recordId": "3498b9f786bb2925d1ddd1e647dcac06e75038fa89aab8973357c6b703efc94a",
"rawRecordSha256": "a71ab9ffffa5427e9e1dd2717048292281192e5b59712e11104941e209fb5422",
"sourceRecordOrdinal": 241874
}
],
"omittedAuxiliaryFields": {
"templates": 0,
"links": 0,
"references": 0,
"descendants": 0,
"lexicalRecords": 0,
"lexicalSenses": 0,
"glosses": 0
}
}