foggy

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   Full of fog, so that it is hard to see.

   It was a cold, foggy morning by the river.

2. 2
   adj

   Not clear in your mind; confused.

   He was still foggy with sleep when the phone rang.

From fog + -y, originally in the sense "covered with tall grass; marshy; thick". It is not clear whether fog (“mist”) is a back-formation from foggy (“covered with tall, obscuring grass”) or has a separate Germanic origin, and hence whether foggy (“covered with tall grass”) and foggy (“obscured by mist”) represent one word or two. See fog ("mist"; "tall grass") for more.

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