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Foggy vs Smoky - What's the difference?

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As adjectives the difference between foggy and smoky

is that foggy is obscured by mist or fog; unclear; hazy while smoky is filled with or giving off smoke.

foggy

English

Adjective

(fog) (er)
  • Obscured by mist or fog; unclear; hazy
  • (figuratively) Confused, befuddled, etc.
  • * He was still foggy with sleep.
  • * {{quote-book
  • , year=1960 , author= , title=(Jeeves in the Offing) , section=chapter VI , passage=If she knew [a psychiatrist was] observing her son with a view to finding out if he was foggy between the ears, there would be umbrage on her part, or even dudgeon.}}

    Derived terms

    * fogginess

    smoky

    English

    Alternative forms

    * smokey

    Adjective

    (er)
  • Filled with or giving off smoke.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-03, volume=408, issue=8847, magazine=(The Economist)
  • , title= Yesterday’s fuel , passage=The dawn of the oil age was fairly recent. Although the stuff was used to waterproof boats in the Middle East 6,000 years ago, extracting it in earnest began only in 1859 after an oil strike in Pennsylvania.
  • Of a colour or colour pattern similar to that of smoke.
  • * 2014 , Janet Mock, Redefining Realness
  • The saleswomen, with their all-black ensembles and smoky eyelids, were as open and affirming as the sight of RuPaul's spread legs in the Viva Glam lipstick ads.
  • Having a flavour like smoke.
  • (music, informal) Having a dark, thick, bass sound.
  • (obsolete) Suspicious; open to suspicion.
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