Question 1 · Quick check
foggy
CEFRA2
/ˈfɒɡi/
adjective
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In plain English
- 01
adjective
Filled with fog or difficult to understand clearly.
- 02
adjective
Extra detailBeing, covered with, or pertaining to fog (“tall grass etc that grows after, or is left after, cutting; moss”)
Examples
In the afternoon the weather became wet and foggy.
It was foggy, so it was hard to make out the figures of people walking.
At a glance
Sits at A2 on the CEFR scale
- Senses
- 4
- Parts of speech
- 1
- Citations
- 5
Deep Dive
adjective
Extra meaningsConfused, befuddled, or vague.
Obscured by mist or fog; unclear; hazy.
More examples
In contextShe slowly disappeared into the foggy forest.
He was still foggy with sleep.
At Esher we were getting out into bright sunshine, and apart from another foggy patch between Farnborough and Winchfield, we had a clear run from then on.
Quick test
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Origin
adjective
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.